 | Sir Walter Scott - 1923
...never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native...country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 204 sidor
...never much inclined me,) for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native...country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to 10 it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926
...much inclined 35 me,) for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honour of my native...country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to 5 it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
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I had intended to have put in practice, though far unable for the attempt of such a poem, and to have left the stage, to which my genius never much inclined me, for a work which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This too I had intended... 
