 | Walter Scott - 1887 - 676 sidor
...would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honor 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1888 - 682 sidor
...would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honor 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1890 - 612 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 it. I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 464 sidor
...uncongenial story of Arthur as the subject of a national heroic. The composition of an epic, he says, " 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 - 1895 - 266 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 it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1899 - 370 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 paticularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 420 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 it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1900 - 782 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 it, I was doubtful whether I should choose that of King Arthur conquering... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 sidor
...would have taken up my life in the performance of it. This, too, I had intended chiefly for the honor 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1917 - 1000 sidor
...which would have taken up my life in the performance of it. Th;s, too, I had intended chiefly for thd honour of my native country, to which a poet is particularly obliged. Of two subjects, both relating to it, I was doubtful whether I slmuld 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... 
