Which preposition to use with cowley
Earl Russell writes to Lord Cowley in the middle of January.
But, alas, we all remember the poetry of Cowley at ten, and Pope at twelve; and, so far from hearing with any degree of surprise that very poor verses were written by a youth from his leaving school to his leaving college inclusive, we really believe this to be the most common of all occurrences;that it happens in the life of nine men in ten who are educated in England, and that the tenth man writes better verse than Lord Byron.
49; Cooke, correspondence with, v. 37, n. 1; Cowley out of fashion, iv. 102, n. 2; Crousaz's Examen, i. 137; death, reflection on the day of his, iii. 165; his death imputed to a saucepan, i. 269, n. 1; death-bed confession, v. 175, n. 5; Dodsley, assisted, ii. 446, n. 4; Dryden, distinguished from, ii. 5, 85; in his boyhood saw him, i. 377; n. 1; Dunciad, annotators, its, iv.
There is more sense in a line of Cowley than in a page (or a sentence, or ten lines,I am not quite certain of the very phrase) of Pope.'
It is from this Reflection that I always read Mr. Cowley with the greatest Pleasure: