 | Robert Wallace - Unitarian churches - 1850 - 656 pages
...Apollo had spy'd him, but knowing his mind, Pass'd by, and call'd Falkland, that sate just behind: But he was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...Though, to say the truth, (and Apollo did know it,) lIe might have been both his priest and his poet. Lord Falkland was but little known in the character... | |
 | NBC University of the Air - America - 1852 - 424 pages
...had spied him, but, knowing his mind, Pass'd by, and call'd Falkland, that sate just behind. " But he was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...He might have been both his priest and his poet." 1 Life, vol. ip 165. — Lord Sunderland seems to have been equally sanguine as to the state of the... | |
 | John James Tayler - Church - 1853 - 352 pages
...shows how highly his literary and theological accomplishments were estimated by his contemporaries. " Though, to say the truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have heen both his priest and his poet." 2 "Hariot," says Aubrey (Lives, vol. ii. p! 369), "made a Philosophicall... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...him, but knowing his mind Past by, and call'd Falkland, that sat just behind : But he was of late BO gone with divinity. That he had almost forgot his poetry ; Though to aay the truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have been- both his priest and his poet At length who... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - 1861 - 698 pages
...points."f This sin* Of the noble friend of these divines and scholars, Sir J. Suckling thus writes: — " He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...He might have been both his priest and his poet." Wpod's Atbenif, ii., 567. M. Guizot thus eloquently comments on these gatherings : — " Here neither... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Great Britain - 1861 - 368 pages
...delight, became subservient to this new pursuit. Suckling, in his " Sessions of the Poets," says — " He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgot his poetry ; Though to say truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have been both his priest and his poet." Falkland is said to... | |
 | 1862 - 514 pages
...furious temper of a Rupert ; he might, lastly, have resolved upon the self-denying course of " But he was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...He might have been both his priest and his poet." SUCKLING: A Session of the Poets. * Essays from the Times, Second Series. •)• Old Mortality, vol.... | |
 | Richard Lovelace, William Carew Hazlitt - English poetry - 1864 - 360 pages
...wil ; Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind Past by, and call'd Falkland, that sat just behind. He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know it) He might have been both his priest and poet." SUCKLING'S Session of the Poets. Lord Falkland was a contributor to Jonsonus Virbius, 1638,... | |
 | 1908 - 1086 pages
...Suckling's wellknown lines. Suckling indeed laments the change in Falkland's intellectual interests : He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgotten his poetry. But the poets had their turn at Great Tew : Selden and Sandys, Sidney Godolphin,... | |
 | Sir John Suckling, Alfred Inigo Suckling - Suckling, John, Sir, 1609-1642 - 1874 - 308 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind Passed by, and call'd Falkland that sat just behind. But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...it) He might have been both his priest and his poet. At length who but an Alderman did appear, At which Will. Davenant began to swear ; But wiser Apollo... | |
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But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgot his poetry, Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it) He might have been both his priest and his poet. 
