 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 601 pages
...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THE MEDAL, Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was...and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it." " This," adds Mr. Spence, from whom I derive this anecdote, " was said by a priest whom I often met... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...poem on such & subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THB-MEDAL. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was...had a present of a • hundred broad pieces for it." " This," adds Mr. Spencc, from whom I derive this anecdote, " was said by a priest whom I often met... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' " He then gave him the plan of THE MEDAL. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was...and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it." " This," adds Mr. Spence, from whom I derive this anecdote, " was said by a priest whom I often met... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan of " The Medal." Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was...and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it." The merits of " The Medal," as a satirical poem, are universally acknowledged ; nor does it greatly... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pages
...poem on such a subject, in the following manner.' He then gave him the plan of " The Medal." Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was...and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it." The merits of " The Medal," as a satirical poem, are universally acknowledged ; nor does it greatly... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...poem on such a subject in the following manner." He then gave him the plan of the the Medal. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was written to the king, and had a present of one hundred broad pieces for it." His servility to the court was manifested in a retnarkable manner,... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...manner," and then gave him the plan for it. Dryden look^ the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it wn» written, to the king, and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it. [This was said by a priest that I often met with at 'Mr. Pope's, who seemed to confirm it, and added)... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,"andthen gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was...and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it. [This was said by a priest that I often met with at Mr. Pope's, who seemed to confirm it, and added,... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...would write a poem on such a subject in the following manner,"andthen gave him the plan for it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem as soon as it was...and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it. [This was said by a priest that I often met with at Mr. Pope's, who seemed to confirm it, and added,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...and then gave him the plan of it. Dryden took the hint, carried the poem, as soon as it was finished, to the King, and had a present of a hundred broad pieces for it. This was said by a Priest that I often met at Mr. Pope's; and he seemed to confirm it, adding, that... | |
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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. 
