The Works of Mr. A Cowley, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from The Works of Mr. A Cowley, Vol. 1: In Prose and Verse, New Edition, Pointing Out the PiecesT1115 Life of Cowley, notwithstanding the penury of English biography, has been written by Dr. Sprat, an author whose pregnancy of imagination and ele gance of language have deservedly set him high in the ranks of literature, but his zeal of friendship, or ambition of eloquence, has produced a funeral oration rather than a history: he has given the cha racter, not the life, of Cowley, for he writes with so little detail, that scarcely any thing is distinctly known, but all is shown confused and enlarged through the mist of panegyric.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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