Authority Cited: Buckingham
Author name and dates: John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, afterward Marquess of Normanby, now Duke of Buckingham [1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby] (1648-1721)
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"Cowley might boast to have perform'd this Part,
Had he with Nature joyn'd the Rules of Art:
But ill Expression gives sometimes Allay
To noble Thoughts whose Fame will ne'er decay
Tho' All appears in Heat and Fury done,
The Language still must soft and easie run."
Quote in Dict.
"But ill expression sometimes gives Allay
To noble thoughts whose flame will ne'er decay"
Buckingh.
Author name and dates: John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, afterward Marquess of Normanby, now Duke of Buckingham [1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby] (1648-1721)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Navy, army service; Tory politician; high offices; poet; a favorite of Q. Anne, who he had courted; 1703 house now B. Palace
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- Poems by the Earl of Roscomon. To which is added, An essay on poetry, by the Earl of Mulgrave, now Duke of Buckingham. Together with Poems by Mr. Richard Duke 1717 London : printed for J. Tonson, at Shakespear's Head over-against Katharine-Street in the Strand; expression [BKG Note: cited in Dict. as Buckingh. - perhaps to avoid deciding between Buckingham and Buckinghamshire, his actual title. Only one citation of Buckingham in the Dict. identifed. The Essay on Poetry by Sheffield in this work is dated 1713. Both lines of the Dict. quote are inexact, perhaps from memory. The 1723 and later editions of Sheffield's Works have quite different phrasing in this stanza, so SJ must have used or remembered the 1717, 1713 (or 1692 or 1721, see below) publication. Perhaps this difference gave rise to the SJ comments in the Sheffield Life that Sheffield changed his poetry phrasing. Since Pope is said to have editied the 1723 Sheffield Works, perhaps the different phrasing is Pope's. For textual variants of all Sheffield's poems, see THE POEMS OF JOHN SHEFFIELD, EARL OF MULGRAVE, MARQUIS OF NORMANDY, AND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (1648-1721): A CRITICAL TEXT, Purdum, Richard, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses 1957]
"Cowley might boast to have perform'd this Part,
Had he with Nature joyn'd the Rules of Art:
But ill Expression gives sometimes Allay
To noble Thoughts whose Fame will ne'er decay
Tho' All appears in Heat and Fury done,
The Language still must soft and easie run."
Quote in Dict.
"But ill expression sometimes gives Allay
To noble thoughts whose flame will ne'er decay"
Buckingh.