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THE PROPHET. Teach me to love! go teach thyself more wit; I chief professor am of it. Teach craft to Scots, and thrift to Jews, Teach boldness to the stews; In tyrants' courts teach supple flattery; Teach Jesuits, that have travell'd far, to lye; Teach fire to burn, and winds to blow, Teach restless fountains how to flow,
The Prophet. by Abraham Cowley. Teach me to love? Go, teach thyself more wit: I chief professor am of it. Teach craft to Scots and thrift to Jews; Teach boldness to the stews; In tyrants' courts teach supple flattery; Teach Jesuits, that have travelled far, to lie; Teach fire to burn and winds to blow; Teach restless fountains how to flow;
22 sie 2014 · INTRODUCTION. Abraham Cowley was the son of Thomas Cowley, stationer, and citizen of London in the parish of St. Michael le Querne, Cheapside. Thomas Cowley signed his will on the 24th of July, 1618, and it was proved on the 11th of the next month by his widow, Thomasine.
This book argues that Cowley's initial popularity and later fall in reputation have a similar origin: the experimental qualities, and the range, of his poetry. Cowley's works bridge disciplines (science, poetry), modes (prose, verse), and genres (lyric, ode, epic) in unexpected ways.
25 lut 2009 · The complete works in verse and prose of Abraham Cowley; now for the first time collected and edited: with memorial introduction and notes and illustrations, portraits, etc. : Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
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In Works (1668) Cowley's editor Sprat kept the internal title-pages from Poems (1656) for Parts II-IV (Mistress-Davideis); the first four parts are separately paginated, as are Cowley's Davideidos Liber Unus in Latin and the verse and prose writings that follow.
