It was natural that the tendencies of English literature thus enumerated should be represented in the poet-laureate for the time being.
With an income from various sources, including his salary as laureate and historiographer and his receipts from his engagement with Killigrew's company, amounting in all to about 600l.
Who was the fit man to be appointed laureate at the Restoration?
Dryden, aslaureate and Tory, had but one course to take.
And surely the company would have been content, If they could have found any precedent; But in all their records, either in verse or prose, There was not one laureate without a nose.
Ben Jonson lived till 1637, and was poet-laureate to Charles I.
He was an approved royalist; he had, in fact, been laureateto Charles I.
The Laureate had read this, and yet considers it the language of a heart that 'never was hardened.
The taunts and revilings of a poet laureate upon Bunyan's preaching and sufferings need only a passing notice.
The poet-laureate makes these assertions, knowing the vast benefits which sprung from the determined piety and honesty of the persecuted preacher.
At the Floral Games he who is crowned poet-laureate chooses the Queen, and she crowns him with a wreath of olive leaves.
But we must not pass over the institution of the Spruchsprecher, the poet laureate of the town.
Mr. Laureate Pye wrote a poem, with a long and argumentative preface on the point.
The Arthurian epic failed to achieve its national aim, and the historical dramas, though inspired by great principles which have helped to shape our history, never touched those large circles to which as laureate he should appeal.
Above all, in the great ode on the death of the Duke of Wellington he has stirred all the chords of national feeling as no other laureate before him, and has enriched our literature with a jewel which is beyond price.
But it is as the laureate of his own country that he is of primary interest, and it is time to inquire how he fulfilled the functions of his office, and how he rendered that office of value to the State.
Tennyson's brother, Charles, superintended the construction of his younger brother's first poetic composition, which was written upon a slate when the great laureate was a child of seven.
That he was the laureatealso is no doubt a matter of some biographical interest, but it is of little further significance.
Hence Malory wrote his Morte D'Arthur for the Fifteenth Century, Spenser used certain portions of the old myths for the Sixteenth, and the late Poet-laureate set himself once more to retell the Idyls of the King for the Nineteenth Century.
The king's face grew so dark with anger as the laureate spoke that Jimmieboy's eye could hardly see two inches before itself, and in haste the little fellow withdrew it from the scene.
Jimmieboy, as the laureate completed his composition.
According to Cibber, Santlow was the happiest incident in the fortune of the play, and the Laureatetells us that she was "then in the full bloom of what beauty she might pretend to.
Of great interest to the literary element will be Mr. Cook's contemplated volume of laureate poetry, containing the winning pieces of all our competitions from the establishment of Laureateships to the present time.
There are also a Historian, a Laureate Recorder, and two Manuscript Managers.
Entries must be printed in an amateur paper, and a marked copy sent to the Laureate Recorder by June 1.
The Ghost andLaureate agree that it is very desirable that there should be so secure and advantageous a deposit for wealth as the funds afford.
In November 1817, it seems the Laureate was sitting over his newspaper, and meditating about the death of the Princess Charlotte.
The Laureate expresses some doubts, which assuredly will not raise him in the opinion of our modern millennarians, as to the divine authority of the Apocalypse.
The only opponents to whom the Laureate gives quarter are those in whom he finds something of his own character reflected.
It was, however, the Victorian poet-laureate Tennyson who gave the Arthurian Legend its latest and most artistic touches in "Idylls of the King.
It is characteristic of the anti-Islamic spirit which appears so strongly in the Umayyads that their chosen laureate and champion should have been a Christian who was in truth a lineal descendant of the pagan bards.
It depends, Your Majesty, upon whether or not he chooses to be more laureate than poet.
The inscription sets forth that he was descended from an ancient family in Staffordshire, was Poet Laureate and Historiographer in the reign of William III.
