This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Rumor can ope the grave. 'Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends." This second edition, with an added portion called Sylvia, appeared in 1636, and a third edition in. 1637. Thus, at eighteen he had had better fortune than most poets at fifty. Some of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... Rumor can ope the grave. 'Acquaintance I would have, but when't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends." This second edition, with an added portion called Sylvia, appeared in 1636, and a third edition in. 1637. Thus, at eighteen he had had better fortune than most poets at fifty. Some of these efforts had been written at a surprisingly early age--C0nstantiu: and Philetus at twelve and Pyramus and Thisbe at ten. And yet how really excellent they are! "After more than two hundred years," says Edmund Gosse, speaking of Pyramus and Thisbe, "it remains still. readable."' The story goes right along with a childlike simplicity, and one cannot help contrasting with it his later more brilliant but laboriously elongated compositions. The child is father of the man, and so we find it in the life of this quiet, meditative poet. "When I was a very young boy at school," says he, "instead of running about on holidays and playing with my fellows, I was wont to steal from them and walk into the fields, either alone with a book or with some one companion, if I could find any of the same temper."" His was just such a nature. He cared lit'tie for the glare and tinsel of the court and seemed never to desire to display himself. Wonderful to relate, during his whole life " he never willingly recited any of his writings."8 Alas, that there are not more Cowleys! But, quiet, modest, widely-read student that he was, he failed in the examination for election to Cambridge in 1636 and had to wait until June, 'Seventeenth Century Studies, p. 114. 7Cowley's 0/ Myself. lSprst's Introduction, Cowley' Poem.. 1637, before he could enter the ancient halls of...
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