Essays (Cowley)

by Abraham Cowley

CASSELL'S NATIONAL LIBRARY.

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Essays

 

BY

ABRAHAM COWLEY.

 

 

CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited:

LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK & MELBOURNE.
1886.

Contents (not listed in original)

• Introduction
• Of Liberty

Martial. Lib. 2. Vota tui breviter, etc.

Martial. Lib. 2. Vis fieri Liber, etc.

Martial. Lib. 2. Quod to nomine? etc.

Ode Upon Liberty

• Of Solitude

Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good!

• Of Obscurity

Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act 2. Chor.

• Of Agriculture

Virg. Georg.--O fortunatus nimium, etc.

Horat. Epodon. Beatus ille qui procul, etc.

The Country Mouse

Horace To Fuscus Aristius.

The Country Life

• The Garden

Happy art thou whom God does bless

• Of Greatness

Horace. Lib. 3. Ode 1. Odi profanum vulgus, etc.

• Of Avarice

I admire, Maecenas, how it comes to pass,

"Inclusam Danaen turris ahenea."

• The Dangers of an Honest Man in much Company

Claudian's Old Man of Verona.

• The Shortness of Life and Uncertainty of Riches

Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,

• The Danger Of Procrastination

Mart. Lib. 5, Ep. 59.

Mart. Lib. 2, Ep. 90.

• Of Myself

Martial, Lib. 10, Ep. 47.

Martial, Lib. 10. Ep. 96.

• Epitaph Of The Living Author
• A Few Notes