 I will only say that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage...  The Works of the English Poets: Dryden - Page 43by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - Literature - 1910 - 638 pages
...censured Dryden for the indecency of his writings. peace be to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this noble knight that I drew...an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of JuvenaL The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage... | |
 | Books - 1910 - 482 pages
...Dryden for the indecency of his writings. peace be to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say xhat it was not for this noble knight that I drew the plan...an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 pages
...ill is to be spoken of the Dead : And therefore Peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this Noble Knight that I drew the Plan of an Epick Poem on King Arthur in my Preface to the Translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Literature - 1923 - 594 pages
...then must the author trudge to his leave-giver that those his new insertions may be viewed. Milton. The Guardian Angels of Kingdoms were machines too...for him to manage ; and therefore he rejected them. Dryden. The peace between them proved to be only a short and hollow truce, during which their mutual... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1926 - 344 pages
...is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew...an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for 10 him to manage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew...an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for 10 him to manage... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 340 pages
...is to be spoken of the dead ; and 5 therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in/ny preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...; and therefore peace be to the Manes of his Arthurs. I will only say, that it was not for this 25 noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...Dryden for the indecency of bis writings. HC XXXIX peace be to the manes of his Arthurs. I will only say that it was not for this noble knight that I drew...an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage;... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...be spoken of the dead: and therefore peace be to the manes [shades] of his Asthurs, I will only say that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew...of an epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvena1. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage;... | |
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