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Abraham Cowley

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Abraham Cowley was an English poet born in the City of London late in 1618. He was one of the leading English poets of the 17th century, with 14 printings of his Works published between 1668 and 1721. One of the leading English poets of the 17th century

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The Evolution of English Literature

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Shakespeare or The Poet - by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Quote Left Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
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Quote Left Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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Quote Left Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou Wert Living the same Poet which thou'rt Now,...
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Quote Left Life is an incurable disease.
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Quote Left Pardon, my Mother Church, if I consent That Angels led him when from thee he went,...
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