24 examples of laureateship in sentences

He does not seem to have been much fascinated with the first gentleman of Europe, whom at no distant date he assailed in the terrible "Avatar," and left the laureateship to Mr. Southey.

This is the pomp and paraphernalia of parting, with which I take my leave of a passion which has reigned so royally (so long) within me; thus, with its trappings of laureateship, I fling it off, pleased and satisfied with myself that the weakness troubles me no longer.

When I told Wordsworth's successor in the Laureateship that I had burned a copy of that poem, sent to me by one to whom it had been confided, his delight was great.

The touching story of Savage had won the heart of the Queen, and she had extracted from the King the promise of the Laureateship for its hero.

The annals of the Laureateship, during Cibber's reign, are without incident.[10]

His real claims consisted in having spent a fortune in electioneering for ministers; and these claims being pressed with unusual urgency at the moment of Warton's death, he was offered the Laureateship as satisfaction in part.

These concessions, varied slightly by subsequent patents from Richard II. and Henry IV., form the entire foundation to the tale of Chaucer's Laureateship.

" The Laureateship, we thus discover, had not, down to the days of James, become an institution.

" We now arrive at the true era of the Laureateship.

And as an incident of the Laureateship there is still another novelty to be noted.

He had been appointed poet laureate in 1670, but the Revolution of 1688, which drove James from the throne, caused Dryden to lose the laureateship.

Possibly mental trouble, which had temporarily affected him, influenced the choice; for Alfred Austin (1835-1913) received the laureateship in 1896.

that will not seem but an echo of what has been said or written of England's noble singer who, on the death of Wordsworth, now over half a century ago, assumed the official bays of the English laureateship?

This was the year when Wordsworth passed to the grave, and Tennyson, in his room, was given the English laureateship.

When about fifty-five years old, his only certain source of income was from his pension, from which he received £145, and from his laureateship, which was £90.

[Footnote 32: Criticisms on the Rolliad, and Probationary Odes for the Laureateship.

I perceive that I have not noticed the poet's laureateship.

Shadwell had, by and by, his revenge, by obtaining the laureateship, after the Revolution, in room of Dryden, and no doubt used the opportunity of drowning the memory of defeat in the butt of generous canary which had now for ever passed the door of his formidable rival.

It will be seen from this that independently of the appointment of the laureateship, Dryden had in or before the year 1679 received an additional pension of £100 a year.

Now these two appointments, the laureateship and the collectorship, were by letters-patent, and were, in the usual course, confirmed on the accession of the new Sovereign, though James characteristically cut out the butt of sack.

If the time between the lapsing and the regranting seems long, it has to be observed, first, that arrears to the date of the lapse are carefully specified; secondly, that even in the case of the laureateship patent, four whole months, as has been seen, elapsed between the instruction for it and the patent itself.

It raised against Cibber a phalanx of implacable foesfoes who howled at everything of which he was afterwards the author; but it gained for him his advancement to the poet-laureateship, and an estimation which caused some people to place him, for usefulness to the cause of true religion, on an equality with the author of "The Whole Duty of Man."DR.

Probationary Odes for the Laureateship, London.

Probationary Odes for the Laureateship, A Great Personage, i. 219, n. 3; Boswell ridiculed, i. 116, n. 1; and the two Wartons, ii. 41, n. 1.

24 examples of  laureateship  in sentences