...with an eye of compassion. Some small employment would make my condition easy"; and he adds bitterly, "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." His appeal was successful; and he was appointed (December 17th, 1683) to an office once held by Chaucer,...

...long left in indigence by the king, and, in laying his case before the government, bitterly exclaimed "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley, and starved Mr Butler.' See R. Bell's Life °J jfohn Dryden in Poetical Works, I. 53, ff.] 1 Alluding to the custom in that...

...Customes,or the Appeals of the Excise,* or some other way, meanes cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and sterv'd Mr. Butler ; but neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry. In...

...long left in indigence by the king, and, in laying his case before the government, bitterly exclaimed "Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley, and starved Mr Butler.1 See R. Bell's LifeoJ John Dry den in Poetical Works, \. 53, ff.] * Alluding to the custom...

...quoted, of Dryden to the Lord High Treasurer within two years after Butler's death, where he says : ' 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler.' l Oldham's lines, written at the same time, are still more emphatic : ' On Butler who can think without...

...or the Appeales of the Excise, or some other way ; meanes cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Cowley and sterv'd Mr Buttler." [1682.] .Holograph. [Add. MS. 17,017, f. 49.] mation of the Calendar, and referring...

...an instalment at least of the debt. It is this letter which contains the well-known phrase, " It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." As far as documentary evidence goes the answer to the appeal was a Treasury warrant for 751., the arrears...

...of Rochester, asking for payment of his salary and a new office. " 'Tis enough," lie says finely, " for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." Rochester seems to have procured for him the small appointment in the Customs just mentioned. 1. 28,...

...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...

...him. _ In 1683 he sent a letter to Hyde, Earl of Rochester, stating his needs, and saying, " It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." The appeal seems to have been partially successful. He received some of his dues, and was appointed...