...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...

...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 stores Of poets, and of orators. Horace his wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate ; And when he would like them appear,...

...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 the...

...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 many...

...heir of his Roman predecessors. Sir John Denham's praise of Cowley seems to have been representative: To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own; Horace's wit, and Virgil's state, He did not steal, but emulate! Samuel Johnson, in his Lives of the...

...Birbeck Hill, sourced it to a couplet in Sir John Denham's elegy on the death of Abraham Cowley (1667): 'To him no author was unknown / Yet what he wrote was all his own'.82 Swift's unrivalled reputation as an ironist encourages us to assume that his plagiarism of...

...own"), and compare Denham's "On Mr Abraham Cowley His Death and Burial Amongst the Ancient Poets," 29-30 ("To him no Author was unknown, / Yet what he wrote was all his own"). 84. See, eg, Akenside's first order of fools, the vain, who find matter for selfapplause in the envy...

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...Latin poems he wrote a work Of Plants in six books. Sir John Denham (1615 — 1668) says of Cowley To him no author was unknown, Yet what he wrote was all his own ; Horace's wit and Virgil's state He did not steal, but emulate, And, when he would like them appear,...

...Parr, yet relies upon her own mother wit and feelings when she writes, — " Nor with Ben Jonson will make bold To plunder all the Roman stores Of poets and of orators." If Mrs. Norton is the Byron, Mrs. Southey is said to be the Cowper of our modern poetesses. But it...