 | George Saintsbury - Authors, English - 1881 - 216 pages
...an instalment at least of the debt. It is this letter which contains the well-known phrase, " It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." As far as documentary evidence goes the answer to the appeal was a Treasury warrant for 75?., the arrears... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1882 - 484 pages
...customs, or the appeals of the excise, or some other way, means cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. ' Tis enough for one age to have neglected...happiness to live till your lordship's ministry. In the meantime, be pleased to give me a gracious and a speedy answer to my present request of half a year's... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1883 - 396 pages
...often in arrears. Like Jonson, he was obliged to solicit those in power. He did so in a manly way. " Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." As on his first coming up to London he was employed by Herringman to write prefaces, dedications, and... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Great Britain - 1883 - 378 pages
...who willingly acknowledged the terse, if moody, power of Butler's muse, replied only by a compliment. "'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley and starved Mr Butler." He admired generously; for his taste was catholic and unfastidious. He loved Shakespeare; he defended... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Great Britain - 1883 - 374 pages
...willingly acknowledged the terse, if moody, power of Butler's muse, replied only by a compliment. " "i'is enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley and starved Mr Butler." He admired generously ; for his taste was catholic and unfastidious. He loved Shakespeare ; he defended... | |
 | Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1887 - 674 pages
...excise, or some other way, means cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. 'Tis enough for ono age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr....happiness to live till your lordship's ministry. In the meantime, be pleased to give me a gracious and a speedy answer to mv present request of halt' a year's... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1888 - 456 pages
...three sons are growing up and have been educated ' beyond his fort une.' ' It is enough,' he says, ' for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler.' On 17 Dec. 1683 Dryden was appointed, perhaps in answer to this appeal, a collector of customs in the... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - English poetry - 1890 - 392 pages
...in arrears. Like Jonson, he was obliged to solicit those in power. He did so in a manly way. " 'T is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." As on his first coming up to London he was employed by Herringman to write prefaces, dedications, and... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - English literature - 1892 - 482 pages
...generation Dryden had written, bitterly, in asking for the payment of arrears of his own pension, "It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr. Butler" (author of " Hudibras"). And Otway, who at length died for want of sufficient food, wrote: Tell 'em... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...Customs, or the Appeals of the Excise, or some other way, means cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will Tis enough for one age to have neglected...happiness to live "till your lordship's ministry. In the meantime, be pleased to give me a gracious and speedy answer to my present request of half a year's... | |
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Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry. 
