THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION

THE

WORKS

OF
MR. A. COWLEY;

IN PROSE AND VERSE.

A NEW EDITION.

POINTING OUT THE PIECES

SELECTED BY
RICHARD HURD, D. D.

LATE BISHOP OF WORCESTER;

AND
INCLUDING HIS LORDSHIP'S NOTES,

AND

DR. JOHNSON'S
LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR JOHN SHARPE, OPPOSITE ALBANY,

PICCADILLY.

1809.

CONTENTS

OF THE

FIRST VOLUME.

** The Pieces selected by BISHOP HURD are in this Table

printed in Italics.

Page

Life of COWLEY, by Dr. Johnson ......

Elegia dedicatoria, ad illustrissimam Academiam Canta-

brigiensem .............

Author's Preface to the Edition of 1656 ................ ....

MISCELLANIES.

The Motto .............

Ode. Of Wit ..............

To the Lord Falkland, for his safe Return from the Northern

Expedition ugainst the Scots .................................

On the Death of Sir Henry Wootton .........................

On the Death of Mr. Jordan, Second Master at Westminster

School .... .... ........

On his Majesty's Return out of Scotland ..............

On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyke, the famous Painter

Prometheus ill-painted ............

Ode .............

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Friendship in Absence ........

42

To the Bishop of Lincoln, upon his Enlargement from the

Tower ..........................................................

To a Lady who made Posies for Rings .......................

Prologue to the Guardian: before the Prince ............

The Epilogue .................

On the Death of Mr. William Hervey .................

Ode. In imitation of Horace's Ode ...........

In imitation of Martial's Epigram .......... .........

The Chronicle. A Ballad .........................................

To Sir William Davenant, upon his two first books of Gon-

dibert, finished before his Voyage to America ...............

An Answer to a Copy of Verses sent me to Jersey ....... 63

The Tree of Knowledge, that there is no Knowledge.

Against the Dogmatists ..............

Reason, the Use of it in divine Matters ....

On the Death of Mr. Crashaw

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ANACREONTIQUES ;

OR, SOME COPIES OF VERSES, TRANSLATED PARAPHRASTI-

CALLY OUT OF ANACREON.

1. Love ..........

2. Drinking ...

3. Beauty

4. The Duel ...............

5. Age .............

6. The Account .......

7. Gold .......

8. The Epicure ........

9. Another ..................

10. The Grasshopper ...............

11. The Swallow .

Elegy upon Anacreon, who was choaked by a grape-stone ...

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