Abraham Cowley citations

Abraham Cowley , était un poète anglais.

Il fit des vers dès son enfance et publia un premier recueil à 15 ans . Pendant la guerre civile, il s'attacha au parti de Charles Ier Stuart, suivit la reine en France, lui servit de secrétaire, et fut chargé de plusieurs missions secrètes, mais il fut mal récompensé de son zèle au retour de Charles II d'Angleterre.

On a de lui :



des Odes pindariques ;

des poésies d'amour ;

des satires ;

des comédies ;

un poème épique ;

la Davidéide ;

des mélanges ;

des poésies latines, entre autres un poème sur les Plantes, en 6 chants.Ses œuvres ont été plusieurs fois imprimées, notamment en 1668, en 1700 , in-folio, et en 1802, Londres, 3 volumes in-8.

✵ 1618 – 28. juillet 1667
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Abraham Cowley: Citations en anglais

“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”

From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.”

The Garden, Preface
Contexte: I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them and the study of nature.
And there (with no design beyond my wall) whole and entire to lie, In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.

“Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.”

Virgil, Georgics, book ii, line 72; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Ravish'd with the whistling of a name", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv, line 281.

“Oh happy, (if his happiness he knows)
The Countrey Swain! on whom kind Heav'n bestows
At home all Riches that wise Nature needs;
Whom the just Earth with easie plenty feeds.”

Virgil, Georgics, book ii, line 458; in The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley, The Fifth Edition (London, 1678), p. 105

“The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.”

The Garden, i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“The monster London laugh at me.”

Abraham Cowley Of Solitude

Of Solitude, xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.”

The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!”

"Beauty," complete poem in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Samuel Johnson ed., vol. 7, p. 115.

“Words that weep and tears that speak.”

The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.

“Fill all the glasses there, for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?”

From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Th' adorning thee with so much art
Is but a barb'rous skill;
'T is like the pois'ning of a dart,
Too apt before to kill.”

The Waiting Maid; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“What shall I do to be forever known,
And make the age to come my own?”

Abraham Cowley The Motto

The Motto; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all,
Both the great vulgar and the small.”

Horace, book iii, Ode 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“His time is forever, everywhere his place.”

Friendship in Absence; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Thus would I double my life's fading space;
For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.”

Discourse xi, Of Myself, stanza xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.

“Life is an incurable disease.”

To Dr. Scarborough; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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