Frases de Abraham Cowley
Abraham Cowley
Data de nascimento: 1618
Data de falecimento: 28. Julho 1667
Abraham Cowley foi um poeta inglês.
Compôs poesias líricas de caráter intimista e anacreônticas. Aos dez anos de idade compôs "Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe", um romance épico. Em 1633, publicou um volume intitulado "Poetical Blossoms". Ele está enterrado na Abadia de Westminster.
Citações Abraham Cowley
„In no unactive ease, and no unglorious poverty.“
— Abraham Cowley
Context: 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.
The Garden, Preface
„The fairest garden in her looks,
And in her mind the wisest books.“
— Abraham Cowley
The Garden, i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„The monster London laugh at me.“
— Abraham Cowley
Of Solitude, xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Lo, this great work, a Temple to thy praise,
On polisht Pillars of strong Verse I raise!
A Temple, where if Thou vouchsafe to dwell,
It Solomons, and Herods shall excel.
Too long the Muses-Land have Heathen bin;
Their Gods too long were Dev'ils, and Vertues Sin;
But Thou, Eternal Word, hast call'd forth Me
Th' Apostle, to convert that World to Thee;“
— Abraham Cowley
Book I, lines 33-40
„Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.“
— Abraham Cowley
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.
„Hope, of all ills that men endure,
The only cheap and universal cure.“
— Abraham Cowley
The Mistress. For Hope; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„The thirsty earth soaks up the rain,
And drinks, and gapes for drink again;
The plants suck in the earth, and are
With constant drinking fresh and fair.“
— Abraham Cowley
From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!“
— Abraham Cowley
"Beauty," complete poem in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Samuel Johnson ed., vol. 7, p. 115.
