Category: Poetry
‘Thus Harvey sought for truth in Truth’s own book, The creatures; which by God Himself was writ, And wisely thought ’twas fit Not to read comments only upon it, But on the original itself to look. Methinks in art’s great circle others stand, Locked up together, hand in hand, E...
transition from the Christian to the heathen. He assumes that Alpheus and the Sicilian Muse had shrunk away ashamed while St. Peter was speaking. In bidding them now to return,...
2. l. 164-182: It ought not to be forgotten that this poem appeared firstprefixed to Sprat’s _History of the Royal Society of London_, London, 1667. Though not published till the year 1667, the year of Cowley’s death, the book had in great part been...
1. l. 19-40: Compare with these the lines, inferior indeed, but themselves‘Thus Harvey sought for truth in Truth’s own book, The creatures; which by God Himself was writ, And wisely thought ’twas fit Not to read comments only upon it, But on the origi...