Matthew Prior: A Study of His Public Career and Correspondence

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The University Press, 1921 - 348 σελίδες
Matthew Prior (1664-1721) was a minor poet and diplomat under King William III and subsequently Queen Anne. As an envoy to the Netherlands and France and negotiator of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 he had a ringside seat at the European power struggles of his time, while at the same time forging a literary career by publishing poetry and angling for the post of Poet Laureate. Prior's surviving correspondence to his patrons and paymasters is a uniquely witty record of diplomatic life. The first full-length biography of Prior, this book was first published in 1921. Its author, Leopold George Wickham Legg, was an editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. The appendixes include detailed information about Prior's family background and transcriptions of some of his surviving letters and a diary from 1712.--
 

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Σελίδα 33 - I be try'd, When the Hague and the present, are both on my side, And is it enough, for the joys of the day To think what ANACREON or SAPPHO would say, When good VANDERGOES, and his provident VROUGH, As they gaze on my triumph, do freely allow, That search all the province, you'll find no man there is So blessed as the Englishen Heer SECRETARIS1.
Σελίδα 33 - MJmoire to compose and no Post-boy to move That on Sunday may hinder the softness of love ; For her, neither visits, nor parties at tea, Nor the long-winded cant of a dull refugee : This night and the next shall be hers, shall be mine, To good or ill fortune the third we resign : Thus scorning the world and superior to fate I drive on my car in processional state.
Σελίδα 135 - The days are now long enough to walk in the Park after dinner ; and so I do whenever it is fair. This walking is a strange remedy ; Mr Prior walks to make himself fat, and I to bring myself down ; he has generally a cough, which he only calls a cold ; we often walk round the Park together.
Σελίδα 6 - Thus, of your Heroes and brave Boys, With whom old HOMER makes such Noise, The greatest Actions I can find, Are, that They did their Work, and din'd. The Books of which I'm chiefly fond, Are such, as You have whilom...
Σελίδα 268 - Spencer, and I will take care to make good in every respect what I said to him when living ; particularly as to the triplet he wrote for his own Epitaph ; which, while we were in good terms, I promised him should never appear on his tomb while I was Dean of Westminster.
Σελίδα 33 - Athens Pisistratus rode ; Men thought her Minerva, and him a new god. But why should I stories of Athens rehearse, Where people knew love, and were partial to verse ; Since none can with justice my pleasures oppose, In Holland half drowned in interest and prose ? By Greece and past ages what need I be tried, When The Hague and the present are both on my side...
Σελίδα 7 - Vicar; Sometimes at STAMFORD take a Quart, 'Squire SHEPHARD'S Health With all my Heart. Thus, without much Delight, or Grief, I fool away an idle Life ; 'Till SHADWELL from the Town retires...
Σελίδα 5 - A MILK-WHITE Hind, immortal and unchanged, Fed on the lawns and in the forest ranged ; Without unspotted, innocent within, She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
Σελίδα 62 - The monarch as to his health is lusty enough, his upper teeth are out, so he speaks a little like old Maynard^and picks andshows his under teeth with a good deal of affectation, being the vainest creature alive even as to the least things. His house at Versailles is something the foolishest in the world; he is strutting in every panel and galloping over one's head in every ceiling...
Σελίδα 28 - ABEL. READING ends in melancholy; Wine breeds vices and diseases ; Wealth is but care, and love but folly; Only friendship truly pleases. My wealth, my books, my flask, my Molly; Farewell all, if friendship ceases.

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