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Abraham
Cowley
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Century of Experience
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Author of Text
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1700-1799
Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.
Gertrude Savile
Abraham Cowley
The Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince Charles
Print
: Book
1800-1849
[Marginalia]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Abraham Cowley
The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi...
Samuel Richardson
Abraham Cowley
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi...
Susanna Highmore
Abraham Cowley
Print
: Book
1850-1899
'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f...
Thomas A. Jackson
Abraham Cowley
[poems complete works]
Print
: Book
1600-1699
'At night home and supped; and after reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed overmuch with busines...
Samuel Pepys
Abraham Cowley
[poems]
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'And here give me Leave to observe, that amongst the Ladies who have taken up the Pen, I never met with but two who de...
Laetitia Pilkington
Abraham Cowley
[Poems]
Print
: Book
1900-1945
Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde...
Edward Morgan Forster
Abraham Cowley
Essay no. 5 ('The Garden')
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: Book
1700-1799
'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S...
Mr Murphy
Abraham Cowley
Selected Works
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'[Dr Johnson] expressed his disapprobation of Dr. Hurd, for having published a mutilated edition under the title of "S...
Samuel Johnson
Abraham Cowley
Selected Works
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres...
Hester Lynch Thrale
Abraham Cowley
Life and Fame
Print
: Book
1700-1799
'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire...
Hester Lynch Thrale
Abraham Cowley
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: Book
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)