 | John Dryden - Poetry - 1893 - 194 pages
...with an eye of compassion. Some small employment would make my condition easy"; and he adds bitterly, "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." His appeal was successful; and he was appointed (December 17th, 1683) to an office once held by Chaucer,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...long left in indigence by the king, and, in laying his case before the government, bitterly exclaimed "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley, and starved Mr Butler.' See R. Bell's Life °J jfohn Dryden in Poetical Works, I. 53, ff.] 1 Alluding to the custom in that... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1893 - 408 pages
...Customes,or the Appeals of the Excise,* or some other way, meanes cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and sterv'd Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry. In... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pages
...long left in indigence by the king, and, in laying his case before the government, bitterly exclaimed "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley, and starved Mr Butler.1 See R. Bell's LifeoJ John Dry den in Poetical Works, \. 53, ff.] * Alluding to the custom... | |
 | Richard Garnett - English literature - 1895 - 314 pages
...quoted, of Dryden to the Lord High Treasurer within two years after Butler's death, where he says : ' 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler.' l Oldham's lines, written at the same time, are still more emphatic : ' On Butler who can think without... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Manuscripts - Autographs - 1895 - 152 pages
...or the Appeales of the Excise, or some other way ; meanes cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley and sterv'd Mr Buttler." [1682.] .Holograph. [Add. MS. 17,017, f. 49.] mation of the Calendar, and referring... | |
 | 1895 - 610 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 751., the arrears... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...of Rochester, asking for payment of his salary and a new office. " 'Tis enough," lie says finely, " for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." Rochester seems to have procured for him the small appointment in the Customs just mentioned. 1. 28,... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1896 - 538 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1896 - 158 pages
...him. _ In 1683 he sent a letter to Hyde, Earl of Rochester, stating his needs, and saying, " It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." The appeal seems to have been partially successful. He received some of his dues, and was appointed... | |
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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. 
