 | William Cowper - 1809 - 486 pages
...happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet — I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...because it afforded him an opportunity to traduce him. lie has inserted in it but one anecdote of consequence for which he refers you to a novel, and introduces... | |
 | William Cowper, William Hayley - 1812 - 456 pages
...happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet — I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three times over, and the last time with mor<3 pleasure than the first. The pitiful scribbler of his life seems to have undertaken that task,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 328 pages
...happen to more than one man iu a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet — I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...entirely unqualified, merely because it afforded him an oppo/tunity to traduce him. He 52 Las inserted in it but one anecdote of consequence, for which he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...Marcelhu, might Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name serve for his epitaph, of poet — be sure; Milton against the field! Yet if a writer of the present "Ostcndcnt tcrria huno loBtum fata, Deque aim EsBe siiiclH— ^." Yours, WC it afforded him an opportunity... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 526 pages
...happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill, the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet— I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...opportunity to traduce him. He has inserted in it but pne Anecdote of consequence, for which he refers you to a novel, and introduces the story, with doubts... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...— " Churchill, the great Churchill," he says in one of bis letters, " deserved the name of a poet. I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...and the last time with more pleasure than the first. ' Gotham ' is a noble and beautiful poem, and a poem with which I make no doubt the author took as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 408 pages
...the rear ; and in the same letter which expresses his disrespect for the mediocrists, Cowper says, " I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...and the last time with more pleasure than the first. — He is indeed a careless writer for the most part, but where *i Table Talk. shall we find in any... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...he says in one of his letters, " deserved the name of a poet. I have read him twice, and some of hi* pieces three times over, and the last time with more pleasure than the first. ' Gotham ' is a noble and beautiful poem, and a poem with which I make no doubt the author took as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...Cowper admired this poem greatly. Speaking of one of Churchill's biographers, " a pitiful scribbler, who seems to have undertaken that task for which he was entirely unqualified, because it afforded him an opportunity to traduce him," and who had called this piece a catchpenny,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 pages
...the rear; and in the same letter which expresses his disrespect for the mediocrists, Cowper says, " I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three...and the last time with more pleasure than the first. — He is indeed a careless writer for the most part; but where shall we find in any of those authors... | |
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It is a great thing to be indeed a poet, and does not happen to more than one man in a century. Churchill,' the great Churchill, deserved the name of poet : I have read him twice, and some of his pieces three times over, and the last time with more pleasure... 
