The Works of Abraham Cowley volume 1
The Works of Abraham Cowley volume 1
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F 3 Carm. Ode xxvi. " Vixi puellis, " &c.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 13 the execution has been accidentally diverted) and does still vehemently continue, to retire myself to some of our American plantations, not to seek for gold, or en- rich myself with the traffic of those parts (which is the end of most men tliat travel tliither ; so that of these Indies it is truer than it was of the former, " Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos, " Per mare pauperiem fugiens *)" but to forsake this world for ev...er, with all the vanities and vexations of it, and to bury myself there in some obscure retreat (but not without the consolation of let- ters and philosophy) " Oblitusque meorum, obliviscendus & illis f " as my former author speaks too, who has enticed me here, I know not how, into the pedantry of this heap of Latin sentences. And I think Dr. Donne's Suii' dt/al in a grave is not more useless and ridiculous, than poetry would be in that retirement. As this tliere- fore is in a true sense a kind of deatli to the Muses, and a real literal quitting of this world j so, metliinks, I may make a just claim to the undoubted privilege of deceased poets, which is, to be read with more favour than the living j Hor.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
F 3 Carm. Ode xxvi. " Vixi puellis, " &c.
AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 13 the execution has been accidentally diverted) and does still vehemently continue, to retire myself to some of our American plantations, not to seek for gold, or en- rich myself with the traffic of those parts (which is the end of most men tliat travel tliither ; so that of these Indies it is truer than it was of the former, " Impiger extremos currit mercator ad Indos, " Per mare pauperiem fugiens *)" but to forsake this world for ev...er, with all the vanities and vexations of it, and to bury myself there in some obscure retreat (but not without the consolation of let- ters and philosophy) " Oblitusque meorum, obliviscendus & illis f " as my former author speaks too, who has enticed me here, I know not how, into the pedantry of this heap of Latin sentences. And I think Dr. Donne's Suii' dt/al in a grave is not more useless and ridiculous, than poetry would be in that retirement. As this tliere- fore is in a true sense a kind of deatli to the Muses, and a real literal quitting of this world j so, metliinks, I may make a just claim to the undoubted privilege of deceased poets, which is, to be read with more favour than the living j Hor.
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