 | Abraham Cowley - Death - 1905 - 484 pages
...the Swift, the Skilful, or the Strong, Be crowned in his Nimble, Artful, Vigorous Song : 3 Whether some brave young man's untimely fate In words worth Dying for he celebrate, Such mournfiil, and such pleasing words, As joy to'his Mothers and his Mistress grief affords : He bids... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - Death - 1905 - 488 pages
...In words worth Dying for he celebrate, Such mournful, and such pleasing words, As joy to'his Mothers and his Mistress grief affords : He bids him Live and Grow in fame, 4 Among the Stars he sticks his Name : The Grave can but the Dross of him devour, So small is Deaths,... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...that 'The grave can but the dross of him devour.' And yet Cowley can admit the following : — Whether some brave young man's untimely fate In words worth...such pleasing words As joy to his mother's and his mistress1 grief affords ; He bids him live and grow in fame, Among the stars he sticks his name. The... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1918 - 678 pages
...Belinda's name. Wakefield points out that Pope's source is Cowley's imitation of Horace, 0. 4. 2. 22-23: He bids him live and grow in fame, Among the stars he sticks his name, rather than of the original lines. Eloisa to Abelard. (2. 2i9) 208. The world forgetting, by the world... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - Comparative literature - 1918 - 662 pages
...Belinda's name. Wakefield points out that Pope's source is Cowley's imitation of Horace, O. 4. 2. 22-28: He bids him live and grow in fame, Among the stars he sticks his name, rather than of the original lines. Eloisa to Abelard. (2. 249) 208. The world forgetting, by the world... | |
 | Kenneth Newton Colvile - English literature - 1923 - 296 pages
...Whether the swift, the skilful, or the strong, Be crowned in his nimble, artful, vigorous Song, Whether some brave young man's untimely Fate In words worth dying for he celebrate. The Grave can but the Dross of him devour, So small is Death's, so great the Poet's Power. The ode... | |
 | English literature - 1917 - 436 pages
...the ultimate sacrifice of life itself. The poet achieves his highest meed of contemporary glory, if ' some brave young man's untimely fate In words worth dying for he celebrate,' and when he is himself a young man striving for the same deathless honour on the same field of blood... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1876 - 840 pages
...of much well and nobly said, and in spite of occasional lines and couplets such as — Whether somo brave young man's untimely fate In words worth dying for he celebrate, which linger in the memory, the grandiose language and the broken versification unite to weary the... | |
 | Timothy Rogers - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 538 pages
...the ultimate sacrifice of life itself. The poet achieves his highest meed of contemporary glory, if some brave young man's untimely fate In words worth dying for he celebrate, and when he is himself a young man striving for the same deathless honour on the same field of blood... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 pages
...the Swift, the Skilful, or the Strong, Be crowned in his Nimble, Artful, Vigorous Song : 3 Whether some brave young man's untimely fate In words worth...celebrate, Such mournful, and such pleasing words, As joy to'his Mothers and his Mistress grief affords : He bids him Live and Grow in fame, 4 Among the Stars... | |
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As joy to his mother's and his mistress' grief affords — He bids him live and grow in fame ; Among the stars he sticks his name ; The grave can but the dross of him devour, So small is Death's, so great the Poet's, power ! Lo, how th... 
