Elkanah Settle: His Life and WorksUniversity of Chicago Press, 1910 - 170 pages |
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Page 21 - A bill for the exclusion of the duke of York from the succession...
Page 68 - I'll leap o'er heavy blocks, Shun rotten Uzza as I would the pox ; And hasten Og and Doeg to rehearse, Two fools that crutch their feeble sense on verse ; Who by my muse to all succeeding times, Shall live, in spite of their own doggrel rhymes.
Page 59 - Upon this he grew insolent, the Wits writ against his Play, he replied, and the Town judged he had the better. In short, Settle was then thought a very formidable rival to Mr. Dryden ; and not only the Town but the University of Cambridge was divided which to prefer; and in both places the younger sort inclined to Elkanah.
Page 129 - HIIMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Page 59 - If from thy hands alone my death can be, I am immortal and a god to thee. If I would kill thee now, thy fate's so low, That I must stoop ere I can give the blow : But mine is...
Page 149 - II Pastor Fido, THE FAITHFULL SHEPHEARD, WITH AN ADDITION OF DIVERS OTHER POEMS, Concluding with A SHORT DISCOURSE OF THE LONG CIVILL WARRES OF ROME, to His Highnesse the Prince of Wales.
Page 121 - THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON, performed on Thursday, Oct. 29, 1691, for the Entertainment of the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Stamp, Knt., Lord Mayor of the City of London ; containing a true Description of the several Pageants, with the Speeches spoken in each Pageant. All set forth at the proper Costs and Charges of the Worshipful Company of Drapers. By Elkanah Settle. London; 4to. 1691. THE TRIUMPHS OF LONDON.
Page 36 - Though long my party built on me their hopes, For writing pamphlets, and for roasting popes ; Yet lo ! in me what authors have to brag on!
Page 57 - Thereupon, with very little conjuration, by those three remarkable qualities of railing, boasting, and thieving, I found a Dryden in the frontispiece; then going through the preface, I observed the drawing of a fool's picture to be the design of the whole piece; and reflecting on the painter, I considered that probably the pamphlet might be like his plays, not to be written without help: and according to expectation, I discovered the author of
Page 15 - Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco revised, with some few erratas ; to be printed instead of the Postscript with the next Edition of the Conquest of Granada, 1674.