Essays
by Abraham Cowley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667
- Title
- Cowley's Essays
- Credits
- Transcribed from 1893 Cassell & Company edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Philosophy
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 3549
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3549
- Release Date
- November 1, 2002
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ESSAYS
- 2.INTRODUCTION.
- 3.OF LIBERTY. — Martial . Lib . 2. Vota tui breviter , etc. — Martial . Lib . 2. Vis fieri Liber , etc. — Martial . L. 2. Quod to nomine ? etc. — Ode UPON LIBERTY.
- 4.OF SOLITUDE.
- 5.OF OBSCURITY.
- 6.OF AGRICULTURE. — Virg. Georg . — Horat . Epodon . — THE COUNTRY MOUSE. — HORACE TO FUSCUS ARISTIUS. — THE COUNTRY LIFE.
- 7.THE GARDEN
- 8.OF GREATNESS. — Horace . Lib . 3. Ode 1.
- 9.OF AVARICE. — A Paraphrase on an Ode in Horace’s Third Book , beginning thus :—
- 10.THE DANGERS OF AN HONEST MAN IN MUCH COMPANY. — CLAUDIAN’S OLD MAN OF VERONA.
- 11.THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE AND UNCERTAINTY OF RICHES.
- 12.THE DANGER OF PROCRASTINATION. — Mart . Lib . 5, Ep . 59. — Mart . Lib . 2, Ep . 90.
- 13.OF MYSELF. — Martial , Lib . 10, Ep . 47. — Martial , Lib . 10. Ep . 96. — EPITAPHIUM VIVI AUCTOIRIS. — EPITAPH OF THE LIVING AUTHOR.
- 14.A FEW NOTES.
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