 | Norman Furlong - Satire, English - 1946 - 196 pages
...subject, in the following manner"; 50 and then gave him the plan for it.'1 It is true that ' If I were a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one' sounds very like an authentic utterance of Charles II; but the anecdote would be more plausible if... | |
 | Odai Johnson - History - 2000 - 202 pages
...Charles, pleased with Absalom and Achitophel, condescended to walk with the author in the Mall and said, 'If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem in the following manner.' He proceeded to suggest something on the lines of The Medal, which Dryden... | |
 | 1895 - 776 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 written to the king, and had a present... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - DRYDEN, JOHN, 1631-1700 - 1966 - 112 pages
...said to have asked for a poem. The story goes that 'One day as the King was walking in the Mall and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and...poem on such a subject in the following manner'". Whatever the truth of this story, Dryden's next poem was The Medal. It resumes the attack on Shaftesbury,... | |
 | Pickering & Chatto - Booksellers' catalogs - 1599 - 170 pages
...day the King was walking in the Mail, and talking with the poet, he said : " If I was a poet, and T think I am poor enough to be one, I would write a poem, on such a subject in the following." He then gave him the plan of the " Medal." 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. 
