 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1833 - 636 pages
...received on that account the encomiums of Waller, Jonson, and other poets. Suckling thus refers to him in his " Session of the poets: " " He was of late so gone with divinity That he had almost forgot hi» poetry. Though to say the truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have been both his priest and... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1833 - 638 pages
...encomiums of Waller, Jonson, and other poets. Suckling thus refers to him in his " Session of the poets:" Though to say the truth, and Apollo did know it, He might have been both his priest and his poet." It was in fact to points of religious controversy that the studies of his riper years were... | |
 | Sir John Suckling - 1836 - 436 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind Past by, and call'd Falkland1 that sat just behind : But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know 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... | |
 | Sir John Suckling - 1836 - 448 pages
...Apollo had spied him, but knowing his mind Past by, and call'd Falkland" that sat just behind : But He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know 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... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 526 pages
...beautiful compliment in his Session of the Poets. Apollo has summoned Falkland to his presence, but, He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know it, He might have been both, his priest and his poet. Swift tells us (it is doubtful on what authority) that Lord Falkland, in his writings, whenever... | |
 | Literature - 1841 - 500 pages
...beautiful complimenl in his Session of the Poets. Apollo has summoned Falkland to his presence, but, He was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know it, He might have been both, his priest and his poet. Swift tell us (it is doubtful on what authority] that Lord Falkland, in his writings, whenever... | |
 | John James Tayler - England - 1845 - 616 pages
...Apollo had spy'd him, but knowing his mind, Passed by, and called Falkland, that sate just behind : But he was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know it, He might have been both his priest and his poet. Suckling's Session of the Poets. (8) P. 299.— "He" (Hariot) "made a Philosophicall Theologie,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 386 pages
...Apollo had spy'd him, but knowing his mind Past by, and call'd Falkland, that sat just behind : But he was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...Apollo had spy'd him, but knowing his mind Past by, and call'd Falkland, that sat just behind : But he was of late so gone with divinity, That he had...did know 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... | |
 | Robert Wallace - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1850 - 660 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...did know it,) He might have been both his priest and his poet. Lord Falkland was but little known in the character of a poet to readers of the present generation,... | |
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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. 
