 | John Dryden - 1882 - 218 sidor
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece ; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But prince Arthur, or his chief...dying before him, deprived the Poet both of means and spirit, to accomplish his design : for the rest, his obsolete language, and the ill choice of his stanza,... | |
 | John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott - 1887
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece ; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But Prince Arthur, or his chief...dying before him, deprived the poet both of means and spirit to accomplish his design.* For the rest, his obsolete language, * This passage is certainly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1895 - 218 sidor
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But prince Arthur, or his chief...dying before him, deprived the Poet both of means and spirit, to accomplish his design: for the rest, his obsolete language, and the ill choice of <his stanza,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1056 sidor
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But Prince Arthur, or his chief...by the marriage of his Gloriana, dying before him, depriv'd the poet both of means and spirit to accomplish 'his design. For the rest, his obsolete Ian-... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece ; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But Prince Arthur, or his chief...dying before him, deprived the poet both of means and spirit to accomplish his design. For the rest, his obsolete language, and the ill choice of his stanza,... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1912 - 79 sidor
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But prince Arthur, or his chief...dying before him, deprived the Poet both of means and spirit to accomplish his design: for the rest his obsolete language and ill choice of his stanzas,... | |
 | Herbert Ellsworth Cory - 1917 - 478 sidor
...remaining legends, it had certainly been more of a piece; but could not have been perfect, because the model was not true. But Prince Arthur, or his chief...Gloriana, dying before him, deprived the poet both of the means and spirit to accomplish his design.7 It is a significant evidence of Dryden 's genius as... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 218 sidor
...to complete The Faerie Queene in A Discourse concerning the Original and Progress of Satire (1693): "Prince Arthur, or his chief Patron, Sir Philip Sidney,...by the Marriage of his Gloriana, dying before him, depriv'd the Poet, both of the Means and Spirit, to accomplish his Design" (2:28). John Hughes' life... | |
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But Prince Arthur, or his chief patron Sir Philip Sidney, whom he intended to make happy by the marriage of his Gloriana, dying before him, deprived the poet both of means and spirit to accomplish his design. 
