Abraham Cowley, a noted English poet and essayist, was born in London, 1618, and died at Chertsey, Surrey, July 28, 1667. He wrote: “The Mistress,” “Poems,” and numerous Virgilian elegies, essays, and love-songs.
Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just!
Shining nowhere but in the dark;
What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust,
Could man outlook that mark!
“They Are All Gone,”—Henry Vaughan.
Henry Vaughan, a celebrated British poet, known as “The Silurist,” was born in Newton, Brecknockshire, Wales, in 1621, and died in April, 1695. His works are: “Olor Iscanus: Select Poems,” “The Bleeding Heart,” “Ejaculations,” “The Mount of Olives; or Solitary Devotions,” and “Thalia Rediviva.”
God helps those who help themselves.
“Discourses on Government,” Ch. II, Pt. xxiii,—Algernon Sidney.
Algernon Sidney, a noted English republican patriot, was born at Penshurst, Kent, in 1622 (?), and died in London, December 7, 1683. His “Discourses on Government” appeared in 1698.
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions.
“Letters,” 202,—Mme. de Sévigné.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, a celebrated French letter-writer, was born at Paris, in 1626, and died at the Castle of Grignan, in Dauphiné, April 18, 1696. The best edition of her “Letters” appeared in 1818-19.