See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM See also:

• ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-1667)
• COWLEY, HANNAH (1743-1809)
• COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY

COWLEY (1618-1667)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• LONDON

London See also:

• LATE

late in 1618 . His See also:

• FATHER

father, a wealthy See also:

• CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen, who died shortly before his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, was a stationer . His See also:

• MOTHER

mother was wholly given to See also:

• WORKS

works of devotion, but it happened that there See also:

• LAY

lay in her parlour a copy of The Faery See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen . This became the favourite See also:

• READING

reading of her son, and he had twice devoured it all before he was sent to school . As See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as 1628, that is, in his tenth See also:

• YEAR

year, he composed his Tragicall See also:

• HISTORY

History of Piramus and Thisbe, an epical See also:

• ROMANCE

romance written in a six-See also:

• LINE

line See also:

• STANZA (Low Lat. stantia, Ital. stantia or stanza)

stanza, of his own invention . It is not too much to say that this See also:

• WORK

work is the most astonishing feat of imaginative precocity on See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record; it is marked by no See also:

• GREAT

great faults of immaturity, and possesses constructive merits of a very high See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order . Two years later the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child wrote another and still more ambitious poem, See also:

• CONSTANTIA

Constantia and Philetus, being sent about the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time to See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster school . Here he displayed the most extraordinary See also:

• MENTAL

mental precocity and versatility, and wrote in his thirteenth year yet another poem, the See also:

• ELEGY

Elegy on the See also:

• DEATH

Death of See also:

• DUDLEY
• DUDLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• DUDLEY, EDMUND (c. 1462—1510)
• DUDLEY, SIR ROBERT (1573—1649)
• DUDLEY, THOMAS (1576-1653)

Dudley, See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord Carlton . These three poems of considerable See also:

• SIZE

size, and some smaller ones, were collected in 1633, and published in a See also:

• VOLUME

volume entitled Poetical Blossoms, dedicated to the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the school, and prefaced by many laudatory verses by schoolfellows . The author at once became famous, although he had not, even yet, completed his fifteenth year . -His next See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition was a See also:

• PASTORAL (from Lat. pastor, a shepherd)

pastoral See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, entitled Love's Riddle, a marvellous See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production for a boy of sixteen, See also:

• AIRY, SIR GEORGE BIDDELL (1801-1892)

airy, correct and harmonious in See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and rapid in See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement . The See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style is not without resemblance to that of See also:

• RANDOLPH, EDMUND [JENNINGS] (1753–1813)
• RANDOLPH, JOHN (1773–1833)
• RANDOLPH, PEYTON (1721-1775)
• RANDOLPH, THOMAS (1523-1590)
• RANDOLPH, THOMAS (1605-1635)

Randolph, whose earliest works, however, were at that time only just printed .

In 1637 See also:

• COWLEY, ABRAHAM (1618-1667)
• COWLEY, HANNAH (1743-1809)
• COWLEY, HENRY RICHARD CHARLES WELLESLEY

Cowley was elected into Trinity See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, where he betook himself with See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm to the study of all kinds of learning, and early distinguished himself as a ripe See also:

• SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar . It was about this time that he composed his scriptural epic on the history of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David, one See also:

• BOOK

book of which still exists in the Latin See also:

• ORIGINAL

original, the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest being superseded in favour of an English version in four books, called the Davideis, which he published a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long time after . This his most See also:

• GRAVE

grave and important work is remarkable as having suggested to See also:

• MILTON
• MILTON, JOHN (1608–1674)

Milton several points which he afterwards made use of . The epic, written in a very dreary and turgid manner, but in See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good rhymed heroic See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, deals with the adventures of King David from his boyhood to the smiting of Amalek by See also:

• SAUL (Heb. shd'ul, " asked ")

Saul, where it abruptly closes . In 1638 Love's Riddle and a Latin comedy, the Naufragium Joculare, were printed, and in 1641 the passage of See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles through Cambridge gave occasion to the production ofanother dramatic work, The See also:

• GUARDIAN

Guardian, which was acted before the royal visitor with much success . During the See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war this See also:

• PLAY

play was privately performed at See also:

• DUBLIN

Dublin, but it was not printed till I65o . It is See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright and amusing, in the style See also:

• COMMON

common to the " sons " of See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben See also:

• JONSON

Jonson, the university wits who wrote more for the closet than the public See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage . The learned quiet of the See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young poet's See also:

• LIFE

life was broken up by the Civil War; he warmly espoused the royalist See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side . He became a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, but was ejected by the Parliamentarians in 1643 . He made his way to See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, where he enjoyed the friendship of Lord See also:

• FALKLAND
• FALKLAND, LUCIUS CARY

Falkland, and was tossed, in the tumult of affairs, into the See also:

• PERSONAL

personal confidence of the royal See also:

• FAMILY

family itself . After the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of See also:

• MARSTON, JOHN (c. 1575-1634)
• MARSTON, PHILIP BOURKE (1850-1887)

Marston See also:

• MOOR

Moor he followed the queen to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and the See also:

• EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile so commenced lasted twelve years . This See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period was spent almost entirely in the royal service, " bearing a See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in the distresses of the royal family, or labouring in their affairs .

To this purpose he performed several dangerous journeys into See also:

• JERSEY
• JERSEY, EARLS OF

Jersey, See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland, See also:

• FLANDERS (Flem. Vlaanderen)

Flanders, See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland, or wherever else the king's troubles required his attendance . But the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief testimony of his fidelity was the laborious service he underwent in maintaining the See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

constant See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence between the late king and the queen his wife . In that weighty See also:

• TRUST

trust he behaved himself with indefatigable integrity and unsuspected secrecy; for he ciphered and deciphered with his own See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand the greatest See also:

• PART

part of all the letters that passed between their majesties, and managed a vast intelligence in many other parts, which for some years together took up all his days, and two or three nights every See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

week." In spite of these labours he did not refrain from See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry . During his exile he met with the works of See also:

• PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

Pindar, and determined to reproduce their lofty lyric See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion in English . At the same time he occupied himself in See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing a history of the Civil War, which he completed as far as the battle of See also:

• NEWBURY

Newbury, but unfortunately afterwards destroyed . In 1647 a collection of his love verses, entitled The See also:

• MISTRESS

Mistress, was published, and in the next year a volume of wretched satires, The Four Ages of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, was brought out under his name, with the composition of which he had nothing to do . In spite of the troubles of the times, so fatal to poetic fame, his reputation steadily increased, and when, on his return to England in 1656, he published a volume of his collected poetical works, he found himself without a See also:

• RIVAL

rival in public esteem . This volume included the later works already mentioned, the Pindarique Odes, the Davideis, the Mistress and some Miscellanies . Among the latter are to be found Cowley's most vital pieces . This See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section of his works opens with the famous aspiration " What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the coming See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age my own?" It contains elegies on See also:

• WOTTON, NICHOLAS (c. 1497–1567)
• WOTTON, SIR HENRY (1568–1639)
• WOTTON, WILLIAM (1666-1727)

Wotton, Vandyck, Falkland, See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William See also:

• HERVEY, JAMES (1714–1758)

Hervey and See also:

• CRASHAW, RICHARD (1613-165o)

Crashaw, the last two being among Cowley's finest poems, brilliant, sonorous and original; the amusing ballad of The See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle, giving a fictitious See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of his supposed amours; various gnomic pieces; and some charming paraphrases from See also:

• ANACREON

Anacreon . The Pindarique Odes contain weighty lines and passages, buried in irregular and inharmonious masses of moral verbiage . Not more than one or two are good through-out, but a full See also:

• POSY (a shortened form of poesy, Fr. poesie, poetry)

posy of beauties may easily be culled from them .

The long cadences of the Alexandrines with which most of the strophes See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close, continued to See also:

• ECHO (Gr. I'Xw)

echo in English See also:

• POETRY

poetry from See also:

• DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

Dryden down to See also:

• GRAY
• GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
• GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
• GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
• GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
• GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
• GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
• GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
• GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
• GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
• GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
• GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
• GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)

Gray, but the Odes themselves, which were found to be obscure by the poet's contemporaries, immediately See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell into disesteem . The Mistress was the most popular poetic reading of the age, and is now the least read of all Cowley's works . It was the last and most violent expression of the amatory affectation of the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, an affectation which had been endurable in See also:

• DONNE, JOHN (1573–1631)

Donne and other early writers because it had been the vehicle of sincere emotion, but was unendurable in Cowley because in him it represented nothing but a perfunctory exercise, a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition of literary calisthenics . He appears to have been of a See also:

• COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold, or at least of a timid, disposition; in the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of these elaborately erotic volumes, we are told that to the end of his days he never summoned up courage to speak of love to a single woman in real life . The "Leonora" of The Chronicle is said to have been the only woman he ever loved, and she married the See also:

• BROTHER

brother of his biographer, See also:

• SPRAT
• SPRAT, THOMAS ( 1635-1713)

Sprat . Soon after his return to England he was seized in See also:

• MISTAKE (i.e. take amiss)

mistake for another See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, and only obtained his See also:

• LIBERTY (Lat. libertas, from liber, free)

liberty on a See also:

• BAIL

bail of £r000 . In 1658 he revised and altered his play of The Guardian, and prepared it for the See also:

• PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press)

press under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of The Cutter of Coleman See also:

• STREET
• STREET, GEORGE EDMUND (1824-1881)

Street, but it did not appear until 1663 . Late in 1658 See also:

• OLIVER, ISAAC (c. 1566--1617)
• OLIVER, PETER (1594-1648)

Oliver See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell died, and Cowley took See also:

• ADVANTAGE

advantage of the confusion of affairs to See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape to Paris, where he remained until the Restoration brought him back in Charles's See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train . He published in 1663 Verses upon several occasions, in which The Complaint is included . Wearied with the broils and fatigues of a See also:

• POLITICAL

political life, Cowley obtained permission to retire into the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country; through his friend, Lord St Albans, he obtained a See also:

• PROPERTY

property near See also:

• CHERTSEY

Chertsey, and here, devoting himself to the study of See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, and buried in his books, he lived in See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative solitude until his death . He took a great and See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical See also:

• INTEREST

interest in experimental See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, and he was one of those who were most prominent in advocating the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of an See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy for the See also:

• PROTECTION

protection of scientific enter-prise . Cowley's pamphlet on The See also:

• ADVANCEMENT

Advancement of Experimental See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy, 1661, led directly to the foundation of the Royal Society, to which See also:

• BODY

body Cowley, in See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1667, at the See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion of See also:

• EVELYN, JOHN (1620-1706)

Evelyn, addressed an See also:

• ODE (Gr. uiSri, from aei&ew, to sing)

ode which is the latest and one of the strongest of his poems .

He died in the See also:

• PORCH (through the Fr. porehe, from Lat. porticus; the Ital. equivalent is portico, corresponding to the Gr. vapOi ; Ger. Vorhalle)

Porch See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

House, in Chertsey, on the 28th of See also:

• JULY

July 1667, in consequence of having caught a cold while superintending his See also:

• FARM

farm-labourers in the meadows late on a summer evening . On the 3rd of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August Cowley was buried in Westminster See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

Abbey beside the ashes of See also:

• CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (? 1340-1400)

Chaucer and See also:

• SPENSER, EDMUND (c. 1552-1599)
• SPENSER, JOHN (1559-1614)

Spenser, where in 1675 the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• BUCKINGHAM
• BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
• BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
• BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
• BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
• BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)

Buckingham erected a See also:

• MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument to his memory . His Poemata See also:

• LATINA, VIA

Latina, including six books " Plantarum," were printed in 1668 . Throughout their parallel lives the fame of Cowley completely eclipsed that of Milton, but posterity instantly and finally reversed the See also:

• JUDGMENT

judgment of their contemporaries . The poetry of Cowley rapidly fell into a neglect as unjust as the earlier popularity had been . As a See also:

• PROSE

prose writer, especially as an essayist, he holds, and will not lose, a high position in literature; as a poet it is hardly possible that he can enjoy more than a very partial revival . The want of nature, the obvious and awkward See also:

• ART

art, the defective See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody of his poems, destroy the interest that their ingenuity and occasional See also:

• MAJESTY (Fr. majeste; Lat. majestas, grandeur, greatness, from the base mag-, as in magnus, great, major, greater, &c.)

majesty would otherwise excite . He had lofty views of the See also:

• MISSION

mission of a poet and an insatiable ambition, but his chief claim to poetic life is the See also:

• DOWRY (in Anglo-Fr. dowarie, O. Fr. douaire, Med. Lat. dotaria, from Lat. dos; from root of dare, to give; in Fr. dot)

dowry of sonorous lyric style which he passed down to Dryden and his successors of the 18th century . The works of Cowley were collected in 1668, when See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Sprat, afterwards See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop of See also:

• ROCHESTER
• ROCHESTER, JOHN WILMOT, 2ND EARL
• ROCHESTER, LAWRENCE HYDE, EARL OF (1641-1711)

Rochester, brought out a splendid edition in See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio, to which he prefixed a graceful and elegant life of the poet . There were many reprints of this collection, which formed the See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard edition till 1881, when it was superseded by A . B . See also:

• GROSART, ALEXANDER BALLOCH (1827-1899)

Grosart's privately printed edition in two volumes, for the Chertsey Worthies library .

The Essays have frequently been revived with approval . (E .