 | Anna Sheldon Camp Sneath - 1912 - 302 páginas
...heavenly theme; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport;...the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. — WALTER SCOTT (From) THE VILLAGE CURATE Then comes a bard, Worn out and penniless, and poet still,... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, Esse Virginia Hathaway - 1920 - 282 páginas
...heavenly theme; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Bound again, But that a rihald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport,...the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. Wann'd hy such names well may we then, Though dwindled sons of little men, Essay to break a feeble... | |
 | John Dryden - 1923 - 196 páginas
...world of Charles II. And so it was left for Scott to lament — " Dryden in immortal strain Had rais'd the Table Round again, But that a ribbald King and...Profaned the God-given strength and marr'd the lofty rhyme. " * * Introduction to Marmion. Maeaulay, though fully aware of the limitations of Dryden's powers... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923 - 896 páginas
...heavenly theme; And Dryden, in immortal strain,2 Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport;...high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marred the lofty line. Warmed by such names, well may we then, Though dwindled sons of little men,... | |
 | Alexandre Beljame - 1998 - 528 páginas
...laughed at their jests or had, in accordance with society custom, flung them a few guineas *" in payment The world, defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marr'd the lof1y line." (Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to Canto I.) ut " There marched the bard and blockhead,... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 páginas
...song/ Scorned not such legends to prolong" (27172), a "ribald king and court" in the eighteenth century "Demanded for their niggard pay,/ Fit for their souls,...a looser lay,/ Licentious satire, song, and play" (277-81). As Scott explains in the Britannica article on the romance, the subsequent dependency on... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1865 - 844 páginas
...purchased. Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald king aud court, Bade him toil on, to make them sport : Demanded...the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. was born, or during his boyhood. Apart from Shakspeare (who belongs to no school in particular), Ben... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1927 - 678 páginas
...some of his works: And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport;...the high design, Profaned the God-given strength and marred the lofty line. Pope summarized the case even more tersely and epigrammatically, when he wrote... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1921 - 316 páginas
...heavenly theme ; And Dryden, in immortal strain, 275 Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport;...their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, 280 Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1898 - 576 páginas
...(Intro, to Canto i.) — Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their Roula a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned... | |
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And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded... 
