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 110 Cowley cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 100 Cowley cites in 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. About 60 additional Cowley cites have been identified (for all letters) as added in the 1773 Dict. - these additions are identified below in bold italic. Fleeman in the Facsimile of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, identifies a 1681 set of Cowley's Works, 12mo, item 4 in Appendix II. The edition of Cowley Works that SJ used has not been determined, but the 1681 edition seems a good candidate.]
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:
Cutter of Coleman-Street a comedy : the scene London, in the year 1658
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 110 Cowley cites in 1755 Dict. vol.1, about 100 Cowley cites in 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. About 60 additional Cowley cites have been identified (for all letters) as added in the 1773 Dict. - these additions are identified below in bold italic. Fleeman in the Facsimile of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, identifies a 1681 set of Cowley's Works, 12mo, item 4 in Appendix II. The edition of Cowley Works that SJ used has not been determined, but the 1681 edition seems a good candidate.]
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;
Cutter of Coleman-Street a comedy : the scene London, in the year 1658