...German. In what form of exertion to pursue celebrity was now his darling care. He would quote from Cowley: What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? These meditations terminated in the resolution to undertake lyric dramas. A perusal of the greek...

...and to do something myself worthy of its genuine admirers, is a most serious delight and comfort. ' What shall I do to be for ever known, ' And make the age to come my own ?' were lines of Cowley that impressed themselves on my memory at an early age, and though the dream...

...former period. Irr past years, and even almost from boyhood, I was perpetually prone to exclaim with Cowley,— " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?" But I had endeavoured for ten years, and was as far from approaching my object as ever. Every thing...

...In past years, and even almost from boyhood, I was perpetually prone to exclaim with Cpwley, — " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? " But I had endeavoured for ten years, and was as far from approaching my object as ever. Every thing...

...former period. In past years, and even almost from boyhood, 1 was perpetually prone to exclaim with Cowley, — " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my'own? " But I had endeavoured for ten years, and was as far from approaching my object as ever. Every...

...years, and even almost from boyhood, I was perpetually prone to exclaim with Cowley, — " What shall 1 do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? " But I had endeavoured for ten years, and was as far from approaching my object as ever. Every thing...

...prototypes) How many of our poets have asked of themselves with a heartfelt and assiduous importunity — " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own 7" How many have answered the inquiry by the exclamation — " Hence all the flattering vanities that...

...naught to affright Sweet sleep, that makes more short the night. ABRAHAM COWLEY. 1618-1667. THE KOTTO. 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 ; Whilst others great, by being...

...essays, there are few who can compare with him in elegant simplicity. THE MOTTO. TENTANDA VIA EST, &C. , 1 shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless 5'ou write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being...

...prototypes? How many of our poets have asked of themselves with a heartfelt and assiduous importunity— " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?". How many have answered the inquiry by the exclamation— SONG-WRITING. 323 "Hence all the flattering...