 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...suggested the subject.7 " One day as the King was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, 1 If I was a poet/ and I think I am poor enough to be...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THE MEDAL. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, and I ' SpcneeYANECDOTE*, ' ' ., . think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THE*MEDAL. Dryden took, the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 608 pages
...the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, and I 7 Spencc's ANECDOTES. think I im poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THE MEDAL. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon it was written,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...Mall, and talking with Drydcn, he said, ' If I was a poet, and I ' Spcncc's ANECDOTE*. ' . . tKink I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such & subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THB-MEDAL. Dryden took the hint,... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...ashamed to insert in the complete collection of lu's works. The following is the history of the poem of the Medal: " One day as the king was walking in the...a poem on such a subject in the following manner." He then gave him the plan of the Medal. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was written... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...priest, a friend of Pope, be absolutely correct, Charles himself engaged Dryden to write on this theme. " One day as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan of " The Medal." Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, and I think 1 am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan of " The Medal." Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, (and I think 1 am poor enough to be one,) I would write a poem on...manner," and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden look^ the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it wn» written, to the king, and had a present of a hundred... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 324 pages
...Pope. It was Charles the_Second who gave Mr. Dryden the hint for writing his poem called the. Mjedal. One day as the King was walking in the Mall, and talking...Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was written to the King, and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it. [This was said by a... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...are printed in the order that they were written. — Mr. Pope. It was Charles the Second who gave Mr. Dryden the hint for writing his poem called the Medal....would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,"andthen gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was... | |
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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. 
