 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 lehte
...own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. ON COWLEY. under. elate, He did not steal, but emulate ! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 lehte
...crime their own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. ON COWLET. To him no author was unknown, Yet what...Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate ! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. As one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 lehte
...own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. On Cow ley. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He iii'1 not sleal, but emulate! And, when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their cloaths,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lehte
...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; st part of Jewish types we find the cherubim shadowing the merc ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Jonson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | 1847 - 334 lehte
...slower nature got the start : But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | 586 lehte
...Cowley ended his life in this house at the early age of forty-nine. says Denham in his famous elegy, "To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." His biographer adds, "There was nothing affected or singular in his habit, or person, or gesture ;... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 lehte
...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 lehte
...reading extensive, his acquaintanee with mankind large. " To him," says Denham in his famous elegy, " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." His hiographer adds, " There was nothing affected or singular in his hahit, or person, or gesture ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 lehte
...Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Cowley. 11 To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate. And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear." copies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 lehte
...always either ingenious or learned, either acute or profound. It is said by Denham in his elegy : " To him no author was unknown ; Yet what he wrote was all his own." 1 This wide position requires less limitation when it is affirmed of Cowley than perhaps of any other... | |
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Horace his wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate! And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear. 
