Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . employs complicated stanzas. Theseare the first two verses of his Hundredth Psalm : Ye nations of the earth rejoiceWhen ye to tlod yourselves present:And make your glad harmonious voiceOf his high praise the instrument. He is our God ; for man, tis not himself: we are his sheep ;His flock with care he does secureIn grandest folds and fields does keep. 642 Abraham Cowley Abraham Cowley was th
Chamber's Cyclopædia of English literature; a history, critical and biographical, of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writings . employs complicated stanzas. Theseare the first two verses of his Hundredth Psalm : Ye nations of the earth rejoiceWhen ye to tlod yourselves present:And make your glad harmonious voiceOf his high praise the instrument. He is our God ; for man, tis not himself: we are his sheep ;His flock with care he does secureIn grandest folds and fields does keep. 642 Abraham Cowley Abraham Cowley was the most popular English poet of his stood next in public estimation. Dodenhad as yet done nothing to give him a name, andMiltons minor poems had not earned for him asupreme position : the same year that witnessedthe death of Cowley ushered the Paradise Lost intothe world. Cowley was born in London in 1618,and was the posthumous son of a respectablestationer in Cheapside, who, dying in the Augustof that year, left ^^140 each to his six childrenand to the unborn infant, the poet. His motherhad influence enough to procure admission forhim as a kings scholar at Westminster; and in. ABR.\H--^M COWLEY. From the Portrait by Mrs Mary Bcale in the National PortraitGallery. 1637 he was elected a scholar of Trinity College,Cambridge, where three years afterwards heobtained a minor fellowship. Cowley lisped innumbers. In 1633, in his fifteenth year, appearedPoetical Biossomes by A. C, with a portrait ofthe young poet prefixed. In his mothers parlourthere used to lie a copy of Spensers Faerie Queene,which infinitely delighted the susceptible boy andhelped to make him a poet. The intensity of hisyouthful ambition may be seen from the first twolines in his Miscellanies : What shall I do to be for ever known,And make the age to come my own ?Cowley was ejected, as a royalist, from Cam-bridge, and betook himself to Oxford ; thencein 1646 he followed Queen Henrietta Maria toFrance, w
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