Authority Cited: Cowley
Author name and dates: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
BKG Bio-tweet: Precocious and prolific “metaphysical” poet; comedy against Puritans; Royalist diplomat in exile; subj. of major SJ “Life”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 115 Cowley cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 105 Cowley cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Cowley is cited 12 times for the headword find, v.a.; four in The Mistress, seven in Miscellanies, and the source of one cite not yet identified. Cowley is cited multiple times for various forms of other headwords: that (9), for (4), love (4), the (4). The example headwords below, used to determine the sources of Cowley 1755 Dict. quotations, were drawn principally from the letters A through F, K, L, P, T, and W. A number of additional Cowley cites have been identified as added in the 1773 Dict. - a sample of these additions are indicated below in bold italic. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, indicates that 100 additional Cowley cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. My examination indicates 13 additional Cowley cites in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. Fleeman in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, identifies a 1681 set of Cowley's Works, 12mo, item 4 in Appendix II. The Sale Catalogue also lists, item 154 7. Couleii opera, &c. (the 1668 Latin poems of Cowley) plus other volumes that appear not to be related to the 12mo Works, and which is marked by SJ for the Lives but not the Dictionary. The edition of Cowley Works that SJ used for the 1755 and 1773 Dict. quotes has not been determined.]
The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design'd for the press: now published out of the authors original copies, the Seventh Edition. 1681, London: Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange:
Author name and dates: Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
BKG Bio-tweet: Precocious and prolific “metaphysical” poet; comedy against Puritans; Royalist diplomat in exile; subj. of major SJ “Life”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 115 Cowley cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 105 Cowley cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Cowley is cited 12 times for the headword find, v.a.; four in The Mistress, seven in Miscellanies, and the source of one cite not yet identified. Cowley is cited multiple times for various forms of other headwords: that (9), for (4), love (4), the (4). The example headwords below, used to determine the sources of Cowley 1755 Dict. quotations, were drawn principally from the letters A through F, K, L, P, T, and W. A number of additional Cowley cites have been identified as added in the 1773 Dict. - a sample of these additions are indicated below in bold italic. Reddick, in The Making of Johnson's Dictionary, indicates that 100 additional Cowley cites were added in vol. 2 of the 1773 Dict. My examination indicates 13 additional Cowley cites in vol. 1 of the 1773 Dict. Fleeman in The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a Facsimile Edition, identifies a 1681 set of Cowley's Works, 12mo, item 4 in Appendix II. The Sale Catalogue also lists, item 154 7. Couleii opera, &c. (the 1668 Latin poems of Cowley) plus other volumes that appear not to be related to the 12mo Works, and which is marked by SJ for the Lives but not the Dictionary. The edition of Cowley Works that SJ used for the 1755 and 1773 Dict. quotes has not been determined.]
The works of Mr. Abraham Cowley consisting of those which were formerly printed, and those which he design'd for the press: now published out of the authors original copies, the Seventh Edition. 1681, London: Printed by J.M. for Henry Herringman at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange:
- Davideis; [authentick]; [bark]; betroth; better; [blot]; [breastplate]; [bullock]; [call]; chestnut; consent; contrary; [crook] (added in 1773 Dict.); crowd; dike; dowre/dowry; fit; foreskin (same quote as dowre); [forsake]; [glory] (added in 1773 Dict.); go; [ground] (added in 1773 Dict.); [guard] (added in 1773 Dict.); [knot]; leap; [nature] (added in 1773 Dict.); [ominous] (added in 1773 Dict.); [once] (added in 1773 Dict.); [plate] (added in 1773 Dict.); [put]; [quake] (added in 1773 Dict.); [quarrel] (added in 1773 Dict.); [red] (added in 1773 Dict.); rough; [sceptre] (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as crook); [sing] (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as crook and sceptre); [spangles] (added in 1773 Dict.); [sprightful] (added in 1773 Dict.); [sprightless] (added in 1773 Dict.); [start] (added in 1773 Dict.); [stone] (added in 1773 Dict.); [strange] (added in 1773 Dict.); [strings] (added in 1773 Dict.); stuff; [that]; [that]; [that]; [that]; [thrice] (added in 1773 Dict.); [till] (added in 1773 Dict.); [too] (added in 1773 Dict.); [top]; trap (added in 1773 Dict.); twin (added in 1773 Dict.); unblunted; [washpot] (added in 1773 Dict.; [wondrous] (added in 1773 Dict.); [woo] (added in 1773 Dict.); [wrack]; [wrap];
- [Essays in Verse and Prose]; [Martial I. 10. Ep. 47] ana; suit (added in 1773 Dict.); [Of Greatness] burley; chioppine (chiopin in text); strive (added in 1773 Dict.);[Claudian's Old Man of Verona] contemporary; [The Shortness of Life and Uncertainty of Riches] lark; the (same quote as lark); thy (same quote as lark, the); [Ode, On Liberty] last; man; the (same quote as last); till (same quote as last, the); knel (the same quote as last, the, till); vow (added in 1773 Dict., 16 line quote including previous Liberty quotes); [Horace to Fuscus Aristius] loathe; country (added in 1773 Dict.); [Of Obscurity] pinnacle;
- The Mistress; [cordial] (added to 1773 Dict.); [covering] (added in 1773 Dict.); [dilemma]; [female] (example of "female" rhymes); [fewel]; fortune; [find]; [find] (same quote as female); [find]; [find]; [flame]; [flame]; [fuel] (same quote, and word, as fewel); [galaxy] (galaxie in text); [garment] (added in 1773 Dict.); [habitable] (added in 1773 Dict.); [light] (same quote as galaxy); [love]; [needle] (added in 1773 Dict.); [never] (added in 1773 Dict.); [predestinator]; [quarter] (added in 1773 Dict.); [receipt] (added in 1773 Dict.); [rows] (added in 1773 Dict.); [so] (added in 1773 Dict.); [solid] (added in 1773 Dict.); [sordid] (added in 1773 Dict.); [stanza] (added in 1773 Dict.); [tasteful] (added in 1773 Dict.); [tenant] (added in 1773 Dict.); [tender] (added in 1773 Dict.); [tenor] (added in 1773 Dict.); [the]; [thither] (added in 1773 Dict.); [true]; [underrate] (added in 1773 Dict.); [wager] (added in 1773 Dict.); [whit] (added in 1773 Dict.); [why] (added in 1773 Dict.); [world] (added in 1773 Dict.); [yet] (added in 1773 Dict.);
- [Miscellanies]; the (inexact quote, worth vs fame in text, perhaps from memory); people (added in 1773 Dict., inexact quote); [Ode, of Wit] adorn; for; for; for; ware (added in 1773 Dict.); wit (added in 1773 Dict.); [The Motto] and; rage (added in 1773 Dict.); struck (added in 1773 Dict., strook in text); that; that; that; the; [The Chronicle, A Ballad] arose; breast; find; [Anacreontiques] banish (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as to); begin; course; flame; flower; that; that; to; tuneless; [On the Death of Mr. William Harvey] commend; love; love; love; love; spent (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as love); [The Country Mouse] commodiously; [Friendship in Absence] find; [Ode] find; [Reason] find; [Martials Epigram] find; news (added in 1773 Dict.); [On the Death of Sir Henry Wootten] find; for; more (added in 1773 Dict.); tongue (added in 1773 Dict.); [To the Bishop of Lincoln] find; [To Sir William Davenant] find; [Destiny] fire; [To Mr. Hobbes] fire; [Prometheus] flame; [Jersey] racy; [On the death of Mr. Crashaw] life (added in 1773 Dict.); poet (added in 1773 Dict.); right (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as life); sacred (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as poet); thee; [Ode] here (added in 1773 Dict.); those (added in 1773 Dict.); thou (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as here); [The Spring] sprouting (added in 1773 Dict.); [On the Death of Sir Anthony Vandyke] widow (added in 1773 Dict.); [Elegy upon Anacreon]; antiperistasis
- [Pindaric Odes]; [Muse] comfit; eternity; postilion (added in 1773 Dict.); thy; wheels (added in 1773 Dict.); white (added in 1773 Dict.); [First Numaean Ode of Pindar] dithyrambic; [Praise of Pindar] for; mossy (added in 1773 Dict.); species (added in 1773 Dict.); [Life and Fame] life; [Destinie] move (added in 1773 Dict.); navel (added in 1773 Dict.); [Ode] or (added in 1773 Dict.); sophisticate (added in 1773 Dict.); [The Resurrection] rack (added in 1773 Dict.); sluggard (added in 1773 Dict.); trumpet (added in 1773 Dict.); [To Dr. Scarborough] sureness (added in 1773 Dict.); [On His Majesty's Return out of Scotland] weather (added in 1773 Dict.);
- [Preface of the Author] bold (added in 1773 Dict., same quote as temerity); temerity;
- [Proposition for the Advancement of Learning]; [The Colledge] adorn; [The School] astronomy;
- [Verses Written on Several Occasions] [Ode, Sitting and Drinking in the Chair made out of the Reliques of Sir Frances Drake's Ship] touch; [Hymn to the Light] archery (added in 1773 Dict.);
- Cowley (no work cited); find ("Beauty and wit in all I find."); prosper;