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three years, was born in 1618, and died at the age
of forty-nine, eleven years before Marvell, who lived
till 1678, thus reaching the age of fifty-seven. Both
were scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, Cowley
in 1637, the year in which Marvell (who took his
B. A. degree in 1638) contributed verses to “ Musa
Cantabrigiensis.” But Marvell then travelled abroad
and took the Puritan side in the great Civil struggle,
whereas Cowley resided at Cambridge, composing
comedies in Latin and English till he was ejected by
the Parliament in 1644. He then migrated to St.
John’s College, Oxford, till he went abroad as
secretary to Henrietta Maria, Marvell filling a like
office in conjunction with Milton, as Latin secretary
to Cromwell. Cowley remained a keen if somewhat
timid Royalist, and issued a Pindaric ode against
Cromwell, whereas Marvell published an Horatian ode
in his favour. Cowley’s own age hailed him in turn
as its Anacreon, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Tibullus, and
especially its Pindar. His “ Pindarique Odes ” were
regarded as productions of a genius little inferior to
that of his model. In fact his biographer Sprat
attributes the great boldness of Cowley’s metaphors
and the length of his digressions to Pindar himself.
Possibly next year’s revival of the Olympic Game
three years, was born in 1618, and died at the age
of forty-nine, eleven years before Marvell, who lived
till 1678, thus reaching the age of fifty-seven. Both
were scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, Cowley
in 1637, the year in which Marvell (who took his
B. A. degree in 1638) contributed verses to “ Musa
Cantabrigiensis.” But Marvell then travelled abroad
and took the Puritan side in the great Civil struggle,
whereas Cowley resided at Cambridge, composing
comedies in Latin and English till he was ejected by
the Parliament in 1644. He then migrated to St.
John’s College, Oxford, till he went abroad as
secretary to Henrietta Maria, Marvell filling a like
office in conjunction with Milton, as Latin secretary
to Cromwell. Cowley remained a keen if somewhat
timid Royalist, and issued a Pindaric ode against
Cromwell, whereas Marvell published an Horatian ode
in his favour. Cowley’s own age hailed him in turn
as its Anacreon, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Tibullus, and
especially its Pindar. His “ Pindarique Odes ” were
regarded as productions of a genius little inferior to
that of his model. In fact his biographer Sprat
attributes the great boldness of Cowley’s metaphors
and the length of his digressions to Pindar himself.
Possibly next year’s revival of the Olympic Game