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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...
...launch, "John Harvard," which was sold recently to the University of Wisconsin navy, has arrived at Madison and will be thoroughly overhauled before being launched next spring. The launch was built by Riley and Cowley of Brooklyn in 1893 and has been in use at Harvard ever since...
...conditions of permanence? Immediate or contemporaneous recognition is certainly not dominant among them, or Cowley would still be popular,- Cowley, to whom the Muse gave every gift but one, the gift of the unexpected and inevitable word. Nor can mere originality assure the interest of posterity, else why are Chaucer and Gray familiar, while Donne, one of the subtlest and most self-irradiating minds that ever sought an outlet in verse, is known only...
...first volume to which he signed his name. With Cowper and Burns began a new style of literature, in which nature was more regarded. Especially in the poetry of Keats we have as good a painting of nature as there is. It was when the new poetical style of Cowley and Burns had done its work through Keats that Tennyson came into prominence. Among his early poems two are especially prominent, the Recollections of Arabian Knights and Marianna. In 1833 Tennyson published his second volume with The Lady of Shalott as its first poem. These two volumes mark the lyrical...