...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own; He melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators : Horace his wit and...

...slower nature got the start ; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own; Ho melted not the ancient gold, Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores...

...reading extensive, his acquaintanee with mankind large. " To him," says Denham in his famous elegy, " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." His hiographer adds, " There was nothing affected or singular in his hahit, or person, or gesture ;...

...Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Cowley. 11 To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate. And when he would like them appear,...

...own. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate." On Couiley. "To him no author was unknown, ' Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate I And when he would like them appear,...

...reading extensive, his acquaintance with mankind large. ' To him,' says Denham in his famous elegy, — ' To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own.' His biographer adds, ' There was nothing affected or singular in his habit, or person, or gesture ;...

...other writer, which is more than can be said of a great many of his brother poets. Denham says that " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." At the very same period with Cowley, Sir John Denham wrote, for he was born three years before Cowley,...

...slower Nature got the start; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happiest share ; To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was...own; ? He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets, and of orators : Horace's wit, and...

...words, and exhibit the sentiment with more weight than bulk.'' ABRAHAM COWLEY. llmm, 1618; DIEU, liicv. To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own, Horace's wit, uml Virgil's stnto, llo did not ltoal but emulate ! And when ho would like thorn appear,...

...plagiarism could ever be sustained agaics: a preacher if he possessed the character given to Denham : — " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; And when he would like them appear, Their garb, and not their clothes, did wear." TH GEOLOGY ; OR,...