...which he had once formed to write an epic poem on the actions either of Arthur or the Black Prince. In 1694 he began the most laborious and difficult of all his works —the translation of Virgil. In 1697 he published his version of the works of Virgil. The " Hind and Panther"—the longest of all...

...that I drew the plan of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to the translations of Juvenal. T^e guardian angels of Kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage ; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirlhats of Kryx, when they were thrown hefore...

...was not," says Dryden, " for this noble knight that I drew the plan of an epic poem on King Arthur. The guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage, and therefore he rejected them ; as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before him...

...that I drew the plan of an Epic poem on king Arthur, in my preface to the translation of Juvenal. — ryden ; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before...

...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 ; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirl-bats of Eryx, when they were thrown before...

...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 ; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before...

...See Johnson's Life of Dryden. Dryden charged Blackmore with stealing his subject ; "only," he adds, "the guardian angels of kingdoms were machines too ponderous for him to manage." Pope, following Dryden in this respect, as in many others, proposed to use the same supernatural agency...

...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 ; and therefore he rejected them, as Dares did the whirlbats of Eryx, when they were thrown before...

...likely in those times to be obtained. Riches were not become familiar to us, nor had> the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore...months, that he might turn Fresnoy's ' Art of Painting ' into English prose. The preface, which he boasts to have written in twelve mornings, exhibits a parallel...

...likely in those times to be obtained. Riches were not become familiar to us, nor had the nation yet learned to be liberal. This plan he charged Blackmore...months that he might turn Fresnoy's Art of Painting into English prose. The preface, which he boasts to have written in twelve mornings, exhibits a parallel...