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" Who now reads Cowley ? if he pleases yet, His moral pleases, not his pointed wit; Forgot his Epic, nay Pindaric art, But still I love the language of his heart. "
The British poets, including translations - Page 40
by British poets - 1822
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A History of English Literature: The middle ages & the renascence (650-1660 ...

Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - English literature - 1926 - 416 pages
...a good writer," and Pope, who owed him much, almost pronounced his condemnation a generation later: Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral...art, But still I love the language of his heart. Yet, when Doctor Johnson wrote his Lives of the English Poets in 1778, he began with Cowley. Cowley existed...
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A History of English Literature: From Beowulf to 1926, Volume 1

William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - English literature - 1926 - 410 pages
...a good writer," and Pope, who owed him much, almost pronounced his condemnation a generation later: Who now reads Cowley? If he pleases yet, His moral...art, But still I love the language of his heart. Yet, when Doctor Johnson wrote his Lives of the English Poets in 1778, he began with Cowley. Cowley existed...
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A Book of English Verse Satire

A. G. Barnes - English poetry - 1926 - 208 pages
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The Profession of Poetry and Other Lectures

Heathcote William Garrod - English poetry - 1929 - 296 pages
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Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England

Jean Loiseau - 1931 - 244 pages
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A Collection of English Poems, 1660-1800

English poetry - 1932 - 1210 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: The Life (1780-1784)

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1934 - 586 pages
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Presidential Address

English language - 1940 - 584 pages
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