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
| 1859 - 826 páginas
...judgment, to sing of Arthur, had missed his high destiny : — " And T)rydon, in immortal strain, Hail raised the. Table Round again, But that a ribald king and court I3ade him toil on to make them sport; The world defrauded of the high design, 1'rufiined tho God-given... | |
| Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 páginas
...; for the words went unto his heart till that he knew wherefore that hee was so called." NOTE III. And Dryden, in immortal strain, Had raised the Table...ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them spoft; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satire, song,... | |
| National portrait gallery - 1862 - 116 páginas
...that the great poem which Dryden had designed on King Arthur was relinquished on their account : " And Dryden in immortal strain Had raised the Table...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... | |
| William Fitzgerald (bp. of Killaloe.) - 1862 - 106 páginas
...permanent interest, nobly planned and nobly executed, as an imperishable monument of his genius, — . " But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on...make them sport : Demanded, for their niggard pay, The service of some looser lay, Licentious satire, song and play ; TUP worid defrauded of each high... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 614 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, 1'rofaned the Goci-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. Warm'd by such names, well may we then,... | |
| Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 páginas
...substance, and they give in shade. ON DRYDEN. DEYDEN, in immortal strain, Had raised the table-round again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil...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... | |
| Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 páginas
...dream, And mix in Milton's heavenly theme; And Pryden,* in immortal strain, Had raised the Table Uound again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil...make them sport ; Demanded for their niggard pay, Hut fur their souls, a looser Iny, Licentious satire, song, and play ; The world defrauded of the high... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 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 Bide him toil on, to make them sport ; ¡lem.inded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser... | |
| Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 páginas
...Walter Scott's indignant lines : " Dry den, in immortal strain, Had raised the table-round again, Bat that a ribald king and court, Bade him toil on, to make them sport; Demanded far their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, Licentious satires, song and play ; The world... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1868 - 398 páginas
...only disgraceful disasters. And Dri/den. in immortal strain. Had raised the Table Hound again. Rut that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on to make...for their niggard pay, fit for their souls, a looser la ч. Licentious satire, song, and play. —p. 41. Dryden's melancholy account of his projected Epic... | |
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