 | English poetry - 1807 - 218 pages
...painter's skill, the poet's thought. OCCASIONED BY THE EXPRESSION '• OWE PRIOR," IN BURNET'S WORKS. " ONE PRIOR !" and is this, this all the fame The poet...shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote. ON A FLOWER PAINTED BY VARELST. [BY PBIOB.] WHEN fam'd Varelst this little wonder drew, Flora vouchsaf'd... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 618 pages
...ppirited epigram. One Prior ! and is this, this all the fame The poet from the historian's pen may claim ? No ! Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote. a tavern by the earl of Dorset, who accidentally found him reading Horace, and he being very generous,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 614 pages
...spirited epigram. One Prior ! and is this, this all the fame The poet from the liistorian's pen may claim ? No ! Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet evr wrote. a tavern by the earl of Dorset, who accidentally found him reading Horace, and he being... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...died, we knew e'en Saints must die. Epigram. Occasioned by the Words " ONE PRIOR." in Burnet's History. ONE PRIOR ! — and is this, this all the fame The...shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote. On Content. An Epigram. IT is not youth can give content, Nor is it wealth's decree ; It is a gift... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...tHe latter he calls " one Prior " (II. 280.), which a friend to the poet's memory thus avenged: ' " One Prior!" and is this, this all the fame, The poet...quote, When 'tis forgot ' one Burnet ' ever wrote.' His censure also of Milton, whom, though he admits he wrote in Latin with great purity and elegancy... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...neat Epigram from Mr. Robert Dodslry: "One Prior I and is this, this all the fame The Poet t'riuii the Historian can claim? No; Prior's verse Posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Bnrnel ever wrote." f The well-known bookseller in New Bond Street. J In the Preface to his Edition... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 520 pages
...spirited epigram : — One Prior ! and is this, this all the fame The poet from the historian's pen may claim ? No ! Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wrote. Swift. " The queen hated and despised the Pretender, to my knowledge." P. 583. Burnet. " In a conference... | |
 | William Coombs Dana - Europe - 1845 - 408 pages
...response of an admirer of , the Poet. " ' One Prior ." and is this, this all the fame The poet from the historian can claim ? No, Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burnet ever wiote." This, however, can hardly be deemed a true prophecy. How the case may be between Byron and... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Astronomical observatories - 1851 - 458 pages
...worthies shewn up in the said history :— " One Prior! and is this, this all the tame The poet from the historian can claim ? No: Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot one Burntt ever wrote." In venting this honest feeling, Dodsley precursed the caustic North Briton's memorable... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1862 - 608 pages
...Epigram occasioned by the words ' one Prior ' in the lecond Volume ofBithop Burnet' s Hittory. " ' One Prior' ! and is this, this, all the fame, The...quote, When 'tis forgot ' one Burnet ' ever wrote." To make this true, the sting of Person's remark on Southey must be added — " but not till then."... | |
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The poet from th' historian can claim ! No ; Prior's verse posterity shall quote, When 'tis forgot ONE BURNET ever wrote. 
