 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 pages
...as a poet, and Sir John Suckling, in his Session of the Poets, held him worthy to be laureate : — He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...it) He might have been both his priest and his poet. He belonged to Ben Jonson's school, and worked mainly in the elegiac vein which that poet had developed,... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 356 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind Past by, and called Faulkland that sate just behind But 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. According to these... | |
 | Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 362 pages
...behind But 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. According to these satirical verses, the Laurel was at last placed on the head of a wealthy alderman,... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1907 - 470 pages
...transference of affection : — He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgotten his poetry, Though to say the truth, and Apollo did...it, He might have been both his priest and his poet. In the earlier stanzas of " A Sessions of the Poets," Suckling gives a catalogic list of these associates... | |
 | Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott - 1907 - 436 pages
...London ". Suckling refers, not perhaps without a sigh of regret, to this transference of affection : — He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had almost forgotten his poetry, Though to say the truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have been both his... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but, knowing his mind, 10 Past by, and call'd Faulkland that sate just behind. But He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost...Poetry, Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it) 15 He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. At length who but an Alderman did appear, At which... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but, knowing his mind, 10 Past by, and call'd Faulkland that sate just behind. But He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost...Poetry, Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it) 15 He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. At length who but an Alderman did appear, At which... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but, knowing his mind, 10 Past by, and call'd Faulkland that sate just behind. He was of late so gone with Divinity That he had almost...Poetry, Though to say the truth (and Apollo did know it) 15 He might have been both his Priest and his Poet. At length who but an Alderman did appear, At which... | |
 | Sir John Suckling - English literature - 1910 - 454 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind Passed by, and call'd Falkland that sate just behind. 100 But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know it) He might have been both his priest and bis poet. 103 At length who but an Alderman did appear, At which Will. Davenant began to swear ; But... | |
 | Lucy Sealy - Great Britain - 1911 - 412 pages
...in bis " Session of the Poets " notes this change in the literary tastes of his friend : — " But he was of late so gone with divinity That he had almost forgot his poetry, Tho" to say the truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have been both his priest and his poet." The... | |
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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. 
