 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
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 páginas
...glory.* In Walter Scott's indignant lines : " 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 niggafd pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satires, song and play ; The world defrauded... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1856 - 776 páginas
...mix in Milton's heavenly theme ; And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Round again,3 But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for then- niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song, and play; The world... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 428 páginas
...Book of Daniel, he adds,— . " Thus, my Lord, I have, as briefly as I could, given your VOL. II. 3 But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on,...their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, lordship, and by you the world, a rude draft of what I have been long labouring in my imagination,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 420 páginas
...supplying machinery from the guardian angels of kingdoms, mentioned in the Book of Daniel, he adds, — But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on,...their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, lordship, and by you the world, a rude draft of what I have been long labouring in my imagination,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 páginas
...glory. In Walter Scott's indignant lines : " Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the table-round again, But that a ribald king and court, Bade him...make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, 1'it for their souls, a looser Jay, Licentious satires, song and play ; H The world defrauded of the... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1857 - 364 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 Round again, But that a ribald King and Court 2V7 Bade him toil on, to make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser... | |
 | 1857 - 574 páginas
...Sir Walter Scott, in allusion .to ^ryden's servility to the king and court, are worth quoting : — And Dryden in immortal strain. Had raised the table round again, But that a rihald king and court Bade him play on to make them sport, The wnrhl defrauded of the high design,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 páginas
...glory.* In Walter Scott's indignant lines : " Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the table-round again, But that a ribald king and court, Bade him...pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satires, song and play ; The world defrauded of the high design, Profaned the God-given strength, and... | |
 | J. Houston Browne - 1858 - 494 páginas
...reproach that he was not a Maecenas, when — " 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 ;" and when noble subjects were countermanded, that great genius might be applied to the praise of... | |
 | 1859 - 112 páginas
...Arthur was relinquished on their account : " And Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table Bound again, But that a ribald King and Court Bade him toil on to make them sport." Both in religion and in politics Dryden followed the course of James II., and at the Revolution became... | |
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