Word: cowley
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Protestant Episcopal Church in 1886, and a priest in 1887. During 1887 he was assistant minister of St. Paul's Cathedral, Buffalo, and in the following year he came to Boston and entered the clergy-house of St. John the Evangelist, which was in charge of the Cowley Fathers. In 1891, on the dissolution of this order, he was taken into the mission church of St. Stephen's, Boston, where he remained for the next ten years. The distinguishing feature of his life in Boston was his enthusiastic work among the colored people, for whom he built St. Augustine...
...please myself when I take my detur in hand for the ten-thousandth time, with representing to myself a dinner party, where, after his return from America. Hopkins sits with Milton at his right and Cromwell at his left, where Andrew Marvell and Waller and Cowley and Dryden sit with the other guests. Did they make Milton, perhaps, recite some verses which describe the successes of an angelic host; did the poets, perhaps, press their host to compare for them the Connecticut against the Thames, or the Pequods against the wild Irish of their...