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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;
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This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. English Wikisource: 4429493. Volume I.
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.
Abraham Cowley and the Wisdom of Anacreon. . . Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of Nature, tho' every thing is alter'd. (Dryden) Real mirth must always be natural, and nature is uniform. Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way. (Johnson)
