The Essays of Abraham CowleySampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1868 - 199 pages |
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Page vii
... poets . It is in writing his life that Doctor Johnson com- plains of the penury of English biography , and does , one must confess , very little to enrich it . He tells us that " Cowley's father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat ...
... poets . It is in writing his life that Doctor Johnson com- plains of the penury of English biography , and does , one must confess , very little to enrich it . He tells us that " Cowley's father was a grocer , whose condition Dr. Sprat ...
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... poet , " as he himself relates . He was admitted into Westminster School , hated gram- mar , so that he never mastered or retained its ordinary rules ; wrote " The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " when he was ten years old ...
... poet , " as he himself relates . He was admitted into Westminster School , hated gram- mar , so that he never mastered or retained its ordinary rules ; wrote " The Tragical History of Pyramus and Thisbe , " when he was ten years old ...
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... poet stronger . He tells us in his de- fence , " that having followed the royal family through all their distresses , it was not then likely at the Restoration 1 Dr. Johnson calls it The Cutter of Coleman Street , but the play is ...
... poet stronger . He tells us in his de- fence , " that having followed the royal family through all their distresses , it was not then likely at the Restoration 1 Dr. Johnson calls it The Cutter of Coleman Street , but the play is ...
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... poets twitted him with this in doggerel verse , which shows plainly enough the suspicion whereon Cowley's misfortunes ... poet , " his vehement desire of retire- ment now came again upon him . " Johnson even finds fault with Anthony Wood ...
... poets twitted him with this in doggerel verse , which shows plainly enough the suspicion whereon Cowley's misfortunes ... poet , " his vehement desire of retire- ment now came again upon him . " Johnson even finds fault with Anthony Wood ...
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... poet , nearly , we may infer , reduced to beggary , obtained a lease of the queen's lands , which afforded him an income ; and first at Barnelms , and afterwards at Chertsey , he wrought amongst his farm- men . " Here , " asks Johnson ...
... poet , nearly , we may infer , reduced to beggary , obtained a lease of the queen's lands , which afforded him an income ; and first at Barnelms , and afterwards at Chertsey , he wrought amongst his farm- men . " Here , " asks Johnson ...
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Page 122 - The Wish Well then; I now do plainly see This busy world and I shall ne'er agree. The very honey of all earthly joy Does, of all meats, the soonest cloy; And they, methinks, deserve my pity Who for it can endure the stings, The crowd, and buzz, and murmurings Of this great hive, the city. Ah yet, ere I descend to th...
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Page 121 - I believe I can tell the particular little chance that filled my head first with such chimes of verse as have never since left ringing there.
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Page 77 - If e'er ambition did my fancy cheat With any wish so mean as to be great; Continue, Heaven, still from me to remove The humble blessings of that life I love.