...the Bee), seems to connect itself with Dryden's affecting remark in his letter to Lord Rochester, " Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and " starved Mr. Butler." P. 171. In support of my statement about Mr. Griffiths, see Monthly Seriew, ii. 431, March 1750. For...

...on a different occasion. "Some small employment," he said, " would render my condition easy. . . . 'Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." And we know also that he died, as Mr. Bell says, "so poor that the expenses of his funeral were undertaken...

...Rochester, on the state of his poverty and neglect — in which is this remarkable passage: — "It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." reason have I spent my life in such an unprofitable study ? Why am I grown old in seeking so barren...

...or the Appeals of the Excise,f or some other way, me anus cannot he wanting, if you please to have the will. *Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and sterv'd Mr. Duller; hut neither of them had the happiness to live till your Lordship's ministry. In...

...Rochester, on the state of his poverty and neglect—in which is this remarkable passage:—"It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." The Miseries of Successful Authors, 207 reason have I spent my life in such an unprofitable study ?...

...Earl of Rochester, Dryden pleading his own distresses, again alludes to the case of Butler — ' It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley, and starved Mr. Butler !' — and this, too, while Charles II. yet occupied the throne. ' Butler,' says Dennis, ' was starved...

...Rochester, on the state of his poverty and neglect—in which is this remarkable passage:—"It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." reason have I spent my life in such an unprofitable study ? Why am I grown old in seeking so barren...

...Rochester, on the state of his poverty and neglect — in which is this remarkable passage: — "It is enough for one age to have neglected Mr. Cowley and starved Mr. Butler." reason have I spent my life in such an unprofitable study f Why am I i!roivn old in seeking so barren...

...cannot be wanting, if you please to have the will. ' Tis enough for one age to have neglected Mr Coidey, and starved Mr Butler ; but neither of them had the...gracious and a speedy answer to my present request of hnlf a year's pension for my necessities. I am going to write somewhat by his Majesty's command, •...

...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...neither of them had the happiness to live till your lordships ministry. In the meantime, be pleased to give me a gracious and speedy answer to my present...