 | Benjamin Martyn - 1836 - 882 pages
...The Medal." — One day as 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 enough to...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 written,... | |
 | Benjamin Martyn, Andrew Kippis, George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - 504 pages
...I 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 written, to the king; and hail a present of a hundred broad-pieces for it. This," continues Spence, " was said by a priest whom... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...being a much more ifrrcnly beast than the other. Scott's ed. vol. ix. p. 428. the poet; he said,— c If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to be...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' He theu gave him the plan of the Medal. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was finished... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...one heing a much mart sloveniy heast than the other. Scott's ed. voL U. p. 4Ss. the poet ; he mid,— 'If I was a poet, and I think I am poor enough to he one, I would write a poem on such a suhject, in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1852 - 670 pages
...in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was a poet, and I am sure I am poor enough for HPO 0PO The king then stated the plan of the poem ; Dryden took the hint, and whe» the poem was finished,... | |
 | Robert Bell - Poets, English - 1839 - 430 pages
...the king one day, as they were walking together in the Mall. " If I were 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 so his majesty went on laying down the plan of the work. Dryden was not slow to appreciate such... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Judges - 1845 - 630 pages
...himself, who, walk* 8 St. Tr. 759. ing with him one day soon after in the Mall, said, " If I CHAP. were a poet (and I think I am poor enough to be one), I would write a poem on Lord Shaftesbury's escape from justice in the following manner," and then gave him the plan of it.... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Gramont, Philibert, comte de, 1621-1707 - 1846 - 572 pages
...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...a poem on such a subject, in the following manner ;' and then gave him the plan of it. Drvdcu took the hint, carried the poem as soon as written to the... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...in the Mall, and talking with Dryden, he said, " If I was 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 scued the plan of the poem; Dryden took the him. und whea the poem was finished, ne pmenma... | |
 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 892 pages
...of Dryden's poem, " The Medal," for one day talking to that writer in the Mall, 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." Dryden caught the idea, and executed the piece at once. Like most persons who have once possessed a... | |
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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. 
