 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...  The New Monthly Magazine - Página 2471854Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Everett - 1904 - 274 páginas
...might have matched, nay, have surpassed him, on the very same subjects, but alas ! as Scott has said : a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make...Demanded, for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a lighter lay; The world, defrauded of the high design. Profaned the God-given strength and marred the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...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$\.... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1905 - 322 páginas
...unpropitious. As Scott puts it, with perhaps too enthusiastic a faith in Dryden's ability : — • "Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table Round...King and Court Bade him toil on to make them sport." Coleridge pronounced the Arthurian legends a fruitful source for a great national epic, but still the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1906 - 616 páginas
...in Milton's heavenly theme ; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again, liut that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Kit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 páginas
...legends to prolong : They gleam through Spenser's elfin dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme; 6|i 1 z 5T+ U$ 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 - 208 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... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1910 - 972 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...and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. Warm'd by such names, well may we then,... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1910 - 974 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...souls, a looser lay. Licentious satire, song, and play ; 624 The world defrauded of the high design, Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...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 - 1911 - 168 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. ' Discourse on Satire. justified... | |
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