...only of pardon, but of praise, if they endeavour to secure that immortality which they merit.' ' ^hat shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own ?' is, therefore, an inquiry of which none need be ashamed, and for the correct answer to which, all...

...poetry, in those words of Cowley, which Dugald Stewart calls " his first burst of juvenile emotion:" " What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my eulogy. ****** What sound is't strikes...

...The intensity of his youthful ambition may be seen from the two first lines in his miscellanies — What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come mine own! In 1643, Cowley, having previously taken his master's degree, was ejected from Cambridge...

...The intensity of his youthful ambition may be seen from the two first lines in his miscellanies — What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come mine own? In 1643, Cowley, having previously taken his master's degree, was ejected from Cambridge...

...such aa these make and unmake a king. DRTDCX. What Is don«, is ¿-„¡г either wisely or unwisely ; What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own.— COWLBT. We act whenever we do any thing, but we may act without dning any thing. The verb act is always...

...but a barb'rous skill ; 'T is like the poisoning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. The Waiting Maid. What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own ? The Motto. His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the...

...volitare per ora," — Or, as old father Oowley has translated it, — " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own *? " And I...true, or just, or useful, to such an account, — I * Rhymes on the Road, Extract VI. think I hear more than one such person answering in the precise vein...

...essays, there are few who can compare with him in elegant simplicity. THE MOTTO. TENTANDA VIA EST, ETC. ave gone here and there, And made ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; While others great, by being...

...FAME attends both great and small t Better be d — d than mentioned not at all— Dr. J. WoLCOTT. — What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own ? — COWLEY, '/ 1•• Motto. Familiarly. — Talks as FAMILIARLY of roaring lious, As maids of thirteen...

...articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. i. CAKLÏLE— Paul and Present. Ch. XVII. y. Act IV. Sc. 4. Trnth, like the sun, submits to be obscured, but, l j. COWI.EY — Tlie Motto. Who fears not to do ill yet fears the name, And, free from conscience, is...