‘Death, be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow.’
See his edition of Donne’s poems, 2. cxliv.
[155] Twicknam Garden.
[156] Gosse 2. 79; 1651.
[157] This subject is pleasantly discussed by Professor Fletcher in his Religion of Beauty in Woman, ‘Précieuses at the Court of Charles I,’ but his discussion shows how inimical was the new movement to anything like a true patronage of letters.
[158] Thus there is no suggestion of the salon about such a figure as the Duchess of Newcastle.
[159] Seventeenth Century Studies, p. 208.
[160] To ‘Berenice,’ in Familiar Letters, London 1697; 1. 147; 30 December 1658.
[161] On the Death of Mrs. Katherine Philips. In his Ode on Orinda’s Poems the lady’s descent is traced from Boadicea. Rowe, in his Epistle to Daphnis, declares that she soared as high as Corneille ‘and equalled all his fame.’ Dryden compares her with Mrs. Killigrew. Cowley may perhaps have owed more than the rest to her. The following reference to him in her letters seems to show that she had been of real service to him: ‘I am very glad of Mr. Cowley’s success, and will concern myself so much as to thank your ladyship for your endeavour in it.’ (To Berenice, Familiar Letters 1. 143; 25 June [1758?].)
[162] Discourse, p. 38.