 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - Poets laureate - 1853 - 658 pages
...suggested the subject and the .method of treatment to Dryden. " If I was a poet," said his Majesty, " and I think I am "poor enough to be one, I would write a poem on such a subject ;" and he went on to plan " the medal," and Dryden wrote it according to the royal instructions and... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Authors, English - 1854 - 292 pages
...gave Dryden the hint for writing his poem called 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," and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was finished,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1855 - 556 pages
..." The Medal." One day, as the King was strolling in the Mall, in St. James's Park, in conversation with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I think...poem on such a subject, in the following manner." He then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, and carrying the poem to the King as soon as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 568 pages
...called " The Medal" One day, as the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, "if! was a poet, (and I think I am poor enough to be one,)...the following manner ;" and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was written, to the king, and had a present... | |
 | Joseph SPENCE - Authors, English - 1858 - 488 pages
...the hint for writing his 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...the following manner : " and then gave him the plan for it. — Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was finished to the king, and had... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 pages
...have done others) to the poet. One day the king was walking in the Mall, and talking with the poet ; he said, — ' If I was a poet, and I think I am poor...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 finished... | |
 | 1882 - 972 pages
...the poem. One day, so the story goes, as he was walking in the Mall and talking with Dryden, the King said, " If I was a poet — -and I think I am poor...a poem on such a subject in the following manner." He then gave him the plan of the " Medal." Dryden took the hint; the "Medal" was written and published,... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - Demonology - 1869 - 486 pages
...Dryden the hint for writing his 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...the following manner,' and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was written to the King, and had a present... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...suggested this poem to Dryden. The story is thus tolJ : " One Jay, as the King was walking in the Mall and talking with Dryden, he said, ' If I was a poet, and...think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem or such a subject in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan of 'The Medal.' Dryden took the... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Anecdotes - 1872 - 390 pages
...the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said — " If I were a poet, and I am sure I am poor enough for one, I would write a poem on such a subject, in the following manner." The King then stated the plan of the poem. Dryden took the hint, and when the poem was finished he... | |
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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. 
