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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent ... - Page 485
by John Aikin - 1808
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Selections for Oral Reading

Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...wanted one immortal song. TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM' FAREWELL, too little and too lately known, as Whom I began to think and call my own : For sure our...near allied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould as mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To...
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The Modern Language Review, Volume 13

John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1918 - 548 pages
...more of Dryden and Oldham than their names, a ribald travesty of the second of the beautiful lines : Farewell too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think, and call my own ; This is not the occasion for any review of the attacks that were made 1 See Dryden not the Author...
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The Modern Language Review, Volume 13

John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1918 - 550 pages
...more of Dryden and Oldham than their names, a ribald travesty of the second of the beautiful lines : Farewell too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think, and call my own ; upon Dryden's life and work by some of his contemporaries : it is sufficient to say that his name...
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Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

Thomas Stearns Eliot - English poetry - 1924 - 52 pages
...demoralizing. Let us take as a final test his elegy upon Oldham, which deserves not to be mutilated : — Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I...and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To the same...
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Understanding Literature

Anthologies - 1989 - 204 pages
...hostile reader would call it a defect — which is perceptible immediately in the very first two lines: Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own: 154 However uncongenial he may find the poem as a whole, the reader is presumably not likely to take...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volume 3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...of twenty-nine, and the poem is a lament for an untimely death: Farewell, too little and too latch' known, Whom I began to think and call my own: For...and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike. To the same...
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The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...Oldham, which deserves not to he mutilated. — Farewell. tou little and too lately known. Whom I hegan to think and call my own; For sure our souls were...and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we hoth ahhorred alike. To the same...
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Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry

Kenneth Koch - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 324 pages
...is more obvious than meter. It's louder. It draws attention to itself and can be heard right away. Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I...think and call my own; For sure our Souls were near ally'd; and thine Cast in the same Poetick mould with mine (DRYDEN, "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham")...
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Men of Letters and the English Public in the Eighteenth Century, 1660-1744 ...

Alexandre Beljame - Authors and readers - 1998 - 528 pages
...obscure passages of his writings. By Edward Thompson. Farewell, too little and too lately known. Whom 1 began to think and call my own : For sure our Souls were near ally'd, and thine Cast in the same poetic Mould with mine. In three volumes. London : Printed for W....
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Restoration Literature: An Anthology

Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...Remains of Mr John Oldham in Verse and Prose (1684). For Oldham see the biographical note, and 15 and 32. Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I...and thine Cast in the same poetic mould with mine. One common note on either lyre did strike. And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike: To the same...
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