 FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred...  The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Mun to Pay - Page 711911Full view - About this book
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 892 pages
...Mr. Oldham ~PJ*AREWELL, too little and too lately known, *• Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To the same... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pages
...noble tribute.] FAREWELL, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: ntly ; but while he forces kimself upon our esteem, we cannot refuse h mold with mine. One common note on cither lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorr'd alike.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1068 pages
...whose own satiric bent was perhaps influenced by his efforts. He says (" To the Memory of Mr Olclham," Works, cd. Scott, vol. xi. p. 99): — " For sure...extravagance and lack of metrical polish — might, as Drydcn suggests, have been cured with time, for Oldham was" only thirty when he died. The best edition... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...OF MR. OLDHAM' FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, as Whom I began to think and call my own : For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould as mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 pages
...posthumously as follows: Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: \ For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mold with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike.... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - English poetry - 1924 - 52 pages
...mutilated : — Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own ; For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To the same... | |
 | Amy Louise Reed - English poetry - 1924 - 300 pages
...Oldham was quick to acknowledge his genuine power as a poet and publicly mourned his loss to literature: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould as mine. There were repeated issues of his Works and Remains at the end of the century. Some stanzas... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...John Oldham, 1684 FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own ; For sure our souls were near allied ; and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike : To the same... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...able apprentice: Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mold with mine. . . . O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more?... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...an untimely death: Farewell, too little and too latch' known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For sure our souls were near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To the same... | |
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