...neglecting my beneficial studies for the King's service ; but I only think I merit not to starve. ... "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." 1. 19. to which King James added the office of Historiographer. This is a mistake. Dryden received...

...Customs, or the Appeals of the Excise, or some other way, means cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected...happiness to live till your lordship's ministry. In the meantime, be pleased to give me a gracious and speedy answer to my present request of half a year's...

...could have rewarded his merit. Dryden, in asking for unpaid arrears of his own salary, wrote, "It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr. Butler. " So Otway, in the Prologue to a play: "Tell 'em how Spenser died, how Cowley mourned, How Butler's...

...letter, he bitterly reflects on the evil days on which the muse had fallen. " 'Tis enough," he says, " for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." Finally, the epigram inscribed by the wit of Samuel Wesley, on the setting up of Butler's monument...

...of Rochester, then First Commissioner of the Treasury, Dryden had said, in pleading for himself, ' 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler.' Sir Walter Scott justly observes in his note on this passage, that King Charles II and his government...

...were Butler's contemporaries. Dryden, in asking for unpaid arrears of his own salary, wrote, " It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." Otway, not long before he also died in hunger, wrote in the prologue to a play : " Tell 'cm how Spender...

...Towards the close of Charles II. 's reign, Dryden had written to Laurence Hyde, Earl of Chester. "Tts enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." *ttt justly observes that the King was more to blame than the Church for the neglect of Butler " With...

...portion of the arrears paid, while he 1 Thin is the letter containing the celebrated passage : ' 'Tin enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley, and starved Mr Batter.' In The Hind and the Panther, part in, w. 247 ff., the abandonment of Butler is absurdly laid...

...monarchs to literary men. Dryden, for instance, writing to the Earl of Rochester, observed that it was enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler. It was not until 1721 that John Barber, a Lord Mayor of London, paid a tardy tribute to his memory...

...qualifies his remarks on this subject very cleverly, and in a letter to Laurence Hyde in 1683, says: "'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr. Butler." The only specimen of the King's prose composition, other than epistolary, which we possess is of doubtful...