 | Mr. Crown (John) - 1873 - 434 Seiten
...know I bid you get your horse 1 Craf. Ay, my lord !• — wash'd from head to foot in rose-water. the plan of the 'Medal.' Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as written, to the King, and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it." As "the Medal" attracted... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1881 - 216 Seiten
...of its origin. Charles, he says, was walking with Dryden in the Mall, and said to him, " If I were a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject in such a manner," giving him at the same time hints for the Medal, which, when finished, was rewarded... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 728 Seiten
...Medal.' One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I were a poet (and I think I am poor enough to be one), I...a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was written... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 256 Seiten
...poet,' said the King to Dryden, with whom he was walking one day soon after in the Mall, ' if I were a, poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one ' (which would seem to show that Louis XIV. was a less munificent patron of kings than of poets), '... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1888 - 200 Seiten
...the Medal to Dryden as a subject for a poem while walking in the Mall. " If I was a poet," he said, " and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject in the following man* Pepys, 8 Dec., 1666. f Clarendon's Life, iii. 63, ed. 1826. $ Burnet, i. 417, ed. 1823. § Walpole's... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 360 Seiten
...Charles II. guw Dryden the hint for his poem of " The Medal." " If I was a poet," said the King, " and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write...a poem on such a subject in the following manner." And he then sketched out the plan. Dryden acted on the suggestion, carried the poem as soon as it was... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 640 Seiten
...called the Medal. One day as the King was walking in The Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be...a poem on such a subject in the following manner" — and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was finished... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 Seiten
...called the Medal. One day as the King was walking in The Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be...would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner"—and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1892 - 338 Seiten
...the Medal to Dryden as a subject for a poem while walking in the Mall. ' If I was a poet,' he said, ' and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write...a poem on such a subject in the following manner.' — Dryden took the hint, carried his poem to the King, and had a hundred broad pieces for it.1 A good... | |
 | John Dryden - 1893 - 194 Seiten
...poem called the Medal. One day as the King was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden he said, ' If I was a poet (and I think I am poor enough to be...a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint and carried the poem as soon as it was written... | |
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One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it. 
