...after sketching the leading facts of the great humourist's life, says : — ' In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only...that can be told with certainty is that he was poor.' Confining ourselves as far as possible, for the purposes of this edition, to what is known, as distinguished...

...after sketching the leading facts of the great humourist's life, says:—' In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only...that can be told with certainty is that he was poor.' Confining ourselves as far as possible, for the purposes of this edition, to what is known, as distinguished...

...gradual progress of experience, however ho may oppose hypothetical temerity. In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only...that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. The poem of " Hudibras " is one of those compositions of which a nation may j ustly boast ; as the...

...melancholy death of Edgar Allan Poe, of whom it may well be said in the words of Dr. Johnson, that the events of his life are variously related, and...can be told with certainty is, that he was poor." In turning to the tales, not much need be added. Those that follow are the best written by Poe, and...

...from the pilaster of the dore (by his desire), 6 foot deepe.'—Aubrey. ' In the midst of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only...all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor.'—Dr. Johnson. Dr. John Wolcot—' Peter Pindar'—(1819), was buried, by his own desire, as...

...may oppose hypothetical temerity. In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose 21 name can only perish with his language. The mode and...all that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor2. THE poem of Hudibras is one of those compositions of which 22 a nation may justly boast, as...

...garret.— GIBBER, COLLEY, 1719, Ximenes, Dedication to Sir Richard Steele. In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only...that can be told with certainty is, that he was poor. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779, Samuel Butler, Lives of the English Poets. The house of his birth was standing...

...contains a partial truth but which, although it is quoted from Dr. Johnson, is a flat anti-climax: "All that can be told with certainty is that he was poor." There seems to be a good deal more to tell than that, and, indeed, the implications of Poe's poverty,...

...life ends with a reflection on the precariousness of our hold on the man: "In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only perish with his language" (para. 21). The confidence that Butler's "name" could be made available to the world through his own...

...gradual progress of experience, however ie.raay oppose hypothetical temerity. In this mist of obscurity passed the life of Butler, a man whose name can only...language. The mode and place of his education are unknown; and the events of his life are variously related ; and all that can be told with certainty is, that...