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It is not to be denied that men of undoubted talents, and even poets of true, though not of first-rate, genius, have from a mistaken theory deluded both themselves and others in the opposite extreme. I once read to a company of sensible and well-educated women the introductory period of Cowley's preface to his "Pindaric Odes," written in imitation of the style and manner of the odes of Pindar.
"One would think you had just been reading Cowley's charming poem, 'Henrietta first possest. But what is the moral to your entertaining little romance? That love must always be transient?" "Not necessarily, but generally. We are travelling at different rates of progress and on different planes.
Voyage de Jacques l'Hermite autour du Monde. Amsterdam, 1705-12. This also is translated from the Dutch. Dampier's New Voyage round the World. London, 1711. 3 vols. 8vo. The French translation in 5 vols. 12mo. contains also the voyages of Wafer, Wood, Cowley, Robert, and Sharp. Dampier's and Cowley's are in Harris, vol. 1. A Voyage round the World. By Captain G. Shelvocke. London, 1757. 8vo.
Scarborough, in which he compares his surgical friend, operating for the stone, to Moses striking the rock, more than justifies all the ill that Dryden could lay at his door. It was into precisely such mud-holes that Cowley's Will-o'-the-Wisp had misguided him. Men may never wholly shake off a vice but they are always conscious of it, and hate the tempter. Dedication of Georgics.
But the constant habit of reading his verses to Susan Posey was not without its risk to so excitable a nature as that of the young poet. Poets were always capable of divided affections, and Cowley's "Chronicle" is a confession that would fit the whole tribe of them. It is true that Gifted had no right to regard Susan's heart as open to the wiles of any new-comer.
I am not able however to give my final Sentence against this Diversion; and am of Mr. Cowley's Opinion, that so much of Dancing at least as belongs to the Behaviour and an handsome Carriage of the Body, is extreamly useful, if not absolutely necessary.
Abraham Cowley, who by his will recommended to the care of his reverend friend, the revising of all his works that were printed, and the collecting of those papers which he had designed for the press. This truth Mr. Sprat faithfully discharged, and to the new edition of Mr. Cowley's Works, he prefixed an account of his life and writings, addressed to Mr. Martin Clifford.
Which I trust I performed with great safety to the persons with whom we corresponded; but about nine months after being discovered by their knowledge of Mr. Cowley's hand, I happily escaped both for myself and those who held correspondence with me. In April 1648 he conveyed away James duke of York, then under the tuition of Algernon earl of Northumberland, from St.
"You'll never go over to yonder lot," said one. "They're holding to election a soul-destroying doctrine." "A respectable man can't join himself to Cowley's gang," said another. "They're denying original sin, and aren't a ha'p'orth better than infidels." Pete took the measure of them all, down to the watch-pockets of their waistcoats.
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