Prose works Author:Abraham Cowley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MR. A. COWLBY. x the gifts of fortune, was plentifully supplied by many other excellencies, which make perhaps less noise, but are more beneficial for example... more ». This, Sir, was the principal end of this long discourse. Besides this, I had another design in it, that only concerns ourselves ; that, having this picture of his life set before us, we may still keep him alive in our memories, and by this means, may have some small reparation for our inexpressible loss by his death. Sir, I am Your most humble and most affectionate servant, T. SPRAT. chapter{Section 4CONTENTS. Preface .. .. .. .. .. .. i An Account of the Life and Writings of Mr. Abraham Cowley, v The Author's Preface to his edition in folio, 1656 .. 1 . The Author's Preface to the Cutter of Coleman Street .. 19 . A Proposition for the Advancement of Experimental Philosophy 29 . A Discourse, by way of Vision, concerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell .. .. .. 47 Several Discourses, by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose :— ' - 1. Of Liberty .. .. .. .. 105 . 2. Of Solitude .. .. .. .. 128 3. Of Obscurity .. .. .. 136 . . 4. Of Agriculture .. .. .. 142 . 5. The Garden .. .. .. 170 - 6. Of Greatness .. .. .. 181 7. Of Avarice .. .. .. .. 194 8. The Dangers of an honest Mau in much Company 203 - 9. The Shortness of Life, and Uncertainty of Riches.. 213 . 10. The Danger of Procrastination .. .. 220 . 11. Of Myself .. .. .. ..227 chapter{Section 5THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE, TO HIS EDITION IN FOLIO, 1656. At my return lately into England, I met by great accident (for such I account it to be, that any copy of it should be extant any where so long, unless at his house who printed it,) a book entituled The Iron Age, and published under my name, during the time of ...« less