40} [Modern poets have given 'amort' a new life; it is used by Keats,
by Bailey (_Festus_, xxx), and by Browning (_Sordello_, vi).]

{41} ['Bruit' has been revived by Carlyle and Chas. Merivale. Its verbal
form is used by Cowper, Byron and Dickens.]

{42} Let me here observe once for all that in adding the name of an
author, which I shall often do, to a word, I do not mean to affirm
the word in any way peculiar to him; although in some cases it may
be so; but only to give one authority for its use. [Coleridge uses
'eloign'.]

{43} _Essay on English Poetry_, p. 93.

{44} _Dedication of the Translation of the Aeneid_.

{45} [i.e. the promoters of Classical learning.]

{46} We have notable evidence in some lines of Waller of the sense which
in his time scholars had of the rapidity with which the language
was changing under their hands. Looking back at what the last
hundred years had wrought of alteration in it, and very naturally
assuming that the next hundred would effect as much, he checked
with misgivings such as these his own hope of immortality:

"Who can hope his lines should long
Last in a daily changing tongue?
While they are new, envy prevails,
And as that dies, our language fails.

* * * * *

"Poets that lasting marble seek,
Must carve in Latin or in Greek:
_We_ write in sand; our language grows,
And like the tide our work o'erflows".

Such were his misgivings as to the future, assuming that the rate
of change would continue what it had been. How little they have
been fulfilled, every one knows. In actual fact two centuries,
which have elapsed since he wrote, have hardly antiquated a word or
a phrase in his poems. If we care very little for them now, that is
to be explained by quite other causes--by the absence of all moral
earnestness from them.

{47} In his _Art of English Poesy_, London, 1589, republished in
Haslewood's _Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poesy_,
London, 1811, vol. i. pp. 122, 123; [and in Arber's _English
Reprints_, 1869].

{48} London, 1601. Besides this work Holland translated the whole of
Plutarch's _Moralia_, the _Cyropoedia_ of Xenophon, Livy,
Suetonius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Camden's _Britannia_. His
works make a part of the "librar