 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...never known, But what he writ was all his own.' Ib. xiv. 329. The last line is from Denham's elegy on Cowley : — ' To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own.' Ante, COWLEY, 172. For the dislike of Swift and Gay 1 to write upon other folks' hints '... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1905 - 522 páginas
...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. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 páginas
...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 ; 30 He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 páginas
...lash'd the knave. To steal a hint was never known, But what he writ was all his own.1 1 Denham's elegy on Cowley : " To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own." " He never thought an honour done him, Because a duke was proud to own him, Would rather... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 páginas
...among which was the " Elegy on Cowley," to which Macaulay here refers. The passage is as follows : " To him no author was unknown Yet what he wrote was all his own. He melted not the ancient gold, Nor, with Ben Jonson, did make bold To plunder all the Roman... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - 1919 - 480 páginas
...gold, to paint the lily. (Salisbury.) noi. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), King John, Act iv. sc. 2. To him no author was unknown. Yet what he wrote was all his own. 1 102. Sir JOHN DENHAM (1615-68), On Mr. Abraham Cowlcy's Death. 1103. To kick against the... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 412 páginas
...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 hia own Elegy o* Cmliy. Sit J. DfcNHAU. EABL OF MARLBOKOUOH. [Lord-President of the Council to Kingjauies... | |
 | Sir John Denham - 1928 - 386 páginas
...slower Nature got the start; But both in him so equal are, None knows which bears the happy 'st share; To him no Author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own;2 30 He melted not the ancient Gold, • Nor with Ben Johnson did make bold To plunder all... | |
 | Kenneth Knowles Ruthven - 1984 - 308 páginas
...own.26 How piquant that this protestation of independence should have been cribbed - from Denham's elegy on Cowley: To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own.27 The word 'plagiarist' is first recorded in 1598, when John Hall called one of Petrarch's... | |
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Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And when he would like them appear, Their garb, but not their clothes, did wear... 
