...essays, there are few who con compare with him in elegant simplicity. THE MOTTO. TENTANDA VIA EST, &C. b [ / @ 1 shall, like beosta or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being...

...essays, there are few who can compare with him in elegant simplicity. THE MOTTO. TENTAXDA VlA EST, &c. youth, and the short space He has enjoy'd the vital light of Heaven, 1 shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being...

...oet. The intensity of his youthful ambition may e seen from the two first lines in his miscellanie: n it do to that, Being a thing immortal as iteclf i [t wa conic my own i X)wley, being a royalist, was ejected from Cam •ridge, and afterwards studied at Oxford....

...one another, We turn away the ravish'd sight, And mingle reverence with delight." THE COMING TIME. " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come mine own." — COWLEY. " What thou shalt do to be for ever known ? Poet or Statesman — look with...

...literature in the abstract. He very early set his affections on literary distinction ; his craving was — ' What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come mine own ? ' Like a mightier spirit, he assuredly felt ' that inward prompting that by labour and intense...

...The intensity of his youthful ambition may be seen from the two first lines in his miscellanies — n. And yet this act, to varnish o'er the shame Of sacrilege, must bea ! Cowley, being a royalist, was ejected from Cam bridge, and afterwards studied at Oxford. He went...

...The intensity of his youthful ambition may be Ken from the two first lines in his miscellanies — (although it be secret) ought to be done with greater gravity. And pr ? Cnwley, being a royalist, was ejected from Cambridge, and afterwards studied at Oxford. He went Iwith...

...is said to be painfully dry and uninteresting. Even almost from boyhood he was prone to exclaim with Cowley — " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ?" He assisted in the New Annual Register, and had become so zealous a political reformer, and his...

...which inspired that first burst of juvenile emotion which forms the exordium to his Poetical Works ! " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy. " It is," says he, " a stupid...

...QUA MB QUOQDB POSSIM TOLLBBE III •.;», V1CTORQUE VIRfill VOLITARB PER ORA. Virg. Gcorg. iii. 6. What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common pcople, die, Uuless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being...