 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 404 oldal
...hardly cold in his grave when a catch-penny biography was published, concerning which Cowper wrote, " The pitiful scribbler of his life seems to have undertaken...was entirely unqualified, merely because it afforded an opportunity to traduce him." Almost immediately after the publication of the " Candidate," the prosecution... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1881 - 408 oldal
...hardly cold in his grave when a catch-penny biography was published, concerning which Cowper wrote, " The pitiful scribbler of his life seems to have undertaken...was entirely unqualified, merely because it afforded an opportunity to traduce him." Almost immediately after the publication of the " Candidate," the prosecution... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1902 - 808 oldal
...on his command; He snatch'd it rudely from the Muses' hand. — COWPER, WILLIAM, 1782, Table Talk. 1 have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...and the last time with more pleasure than the first. . . . He is indeed a careless writer for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors... | |
 | Whitwell Elwin - 1902 - 570 oldal
...happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of a poet. I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...over, and the last time with more pleasure than the first.r1 The praise was excessive, and was the less to be expected that the licentiousness of Churchill's... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 oldal
...happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet. I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...the last time with more pleasure than the first." But no one reads him even once now except as students. And yet it is in the pages of the satirist that... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 oldal
...on his command; He snatch'd it rudely from the Muses' hand. — COWPER, WILLIAM, 1782, Table Talk. I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...and the last time with more pleasure than the first. . . . He is indeed a careless writer for the most part ; but where shall we find in any of those authors... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1876 - 586 oldal
...happen to morethan one man in a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet. I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three times over, and the last with more pleasure than the first." He confessedly took Dryden for his model, and although he had not... | |
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It is a great thing to be indeed a poet, and does not happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill,' the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet : I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three times over, and the last time with more pleasure... 
