Opis: The Essays of Abraham Cowley - Cowley Abraham

Excerpt from The Essays of Abraham Cowley: With Life by the Editor

When Abraham Cowley was buried in Westminster Abbey, near Chaucer and Spenser, King Charles II. pronounced oracularly, "That Mr. Cowley had not left behind him a better man in England." The posthumous praise of princes is, we must remember, one way of paying their debts; and as Cowley had acted as secretary to either Charles, and had been so trusted that he wrote much of their correspondence in cypher, and was rewarded slenderly, if at all, we may believe that with the king such excessive praise was natural. This was in 1667; and Cowley had died at the Porch House in Chertsey, in the forty-ninth year of his age, leaving behind him, as we know, both better men and better poets.

It is in writing his life that Doctor Johnson complains of the penury of English biography, and does, one must confess, very little to enrich it.

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Szczegóły: The Essays of Abraham Cowley - Cowley Abraham

Nazwa: The Essays of Abraham Cowley With Life by the Editor (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Cowley Abraham
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330327159
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 238
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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