 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 strani
...the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with stealing ; only says he, the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage. In 1694, he began the most laborious and difficult of all his works, the translation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1882 - 480 strani
...machines too ponderous for him to manage ; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirl bats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus...took his hint ; for he began immediately upon the story, though he had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor, but, instead of it, to traduce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 484 strani
...noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines...manage; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirl bats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus: yet from that preface, he plainly... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 strani
...noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines...whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus.t Yet from that preface he pkinly took his hint: for he began immediately upon the story;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 strani
...the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with stealing ; only, says he, the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage. In 1694, he began the most laborious and difficult of all his works, the translation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 strani
...this noble knight that I drew the plan of an Epic poem on King Arthur in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines...plainly took his hint; for he began immediately upon his story, though he had the baseness not to acknowledge his benefactor; but instead of it, to traduce... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 strani
...nation vet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore with stealing ; " only," says he, " the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage." In 1694, he began the most laborious and difficult of all his works, the translation of Virgil ; from... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 760 strani
...noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines...whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him by Entellus.t Yet from that preface he plainly took his hint : for he began immediately upon the story;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 strani
...preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for 10 him to manage; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirl-bats of Eryxwhen they were thrown before him by Entellus : yet from that preface, he plainly took his hint... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 strani
...noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for 10 him to manage; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirl-bats of Eryx when they were... | |
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I will only say, that it was not for this noble Knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. The Guardian Angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage... 
