 | Samuel Johnson, Harold Spencer Scott - 1905
...more insufferable evil, through the change of the times, has wholly disenabled me." Works, xiii. 31. ' And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table...King and Court Bade him toil on to make them sport' Mannion, canto i, Introduction. See ante, BUTLER, 16; OTWAY, 14 ; DRYDEN, 85 ». 4 Works,-s3..i$\.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 303 páginas
...unpropitious. As Scott puts it, with perhaps too enthusiastic a faith in Dryden's ability : — • "Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table Round...King and Court Bade him toil on to make them sport." Coleridge pronounced the Arthurian legends a fruitful source for a great national epic, but still the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 559 páginas
...in Milton's heavenly theme ; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, liut that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Kit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 970 páginas
...legends to prolong : They gleam through Spenser's elfin dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme; 6|i 1 z 5T+ U$ x j> $ ʼ + x xա " t% O 4 7Ʈ ...# T uJm R i S+9 S EeD · 0 b $ k D. ' [ U+Ҭ 93 The world defrauded of the high design, Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1908 - 191 páginas
...Prince, in his Spanish wars. The times, however, were not ripe for such an effort. As Scott writes: " Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table Round...king and court Bade him toil on to make them sport." The worthy knight, Sir Richard Blackmore, was the first to achieve the distinction of a completed Arthurian... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910
...of Music, vol. in, p. 492. . . . Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Bound again, Bat that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; . . . The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and marred the lofty... | |
 | William Lewis Jones - 1914 - 145 páginas
...doubtful whether he was quite the kind of poet who, in Scott's words, could " in immortal strain Have raised the Table Round again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on to make them sport." Scott's assumption, at any rate, is scarcely 1 Paradise Lost, Book IX. a Discourse on Satire. justified... | |
 | 1917
...opera on King Arthur, meditated, according to Sir Walter Scott, a larger treatment of the theme: — "And Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table...King and Court Bade him toil on to make them sport." Sir Walter himself edited the old metrical romance of ' Sir Tristram,and where the manuscript was defective,... | |
 | John Bayley - 1971 - 368 páginas
...legends to prolong: They gleam through Spenser's elfin dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme ; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table...king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport. Marmion shows how heavy a weight of tradition both inspired and embarrassed the romantic revival, for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 2003 - 253 páginas
...such legends to prolong: They gleam through Spenser's elfin dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table...Round again, But that A ribald King and Court Bade them toil on, to make them sport; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay,... | |
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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... 
