Author

Abraham Cowley(1618–1667)

Abraham Cowley is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1836). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedMentioned
Present in: Notebooks
Documented: 1836

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“I have often observed", says Cowley, "with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence) That when the fulness and maturity of time is come [...] Cowley, quoted by Southey.”

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Abraham Cowley

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p99–p100

excerptedManuscript page

“I have often observed", says Cowley, "with all submission and resignation of spirit to the inscrutable mysteries of Eternal Providence) That when the fulness and maturity of time is come [...] Cowley, quoted by Southey.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Cowley is quoted by name within Southey's Life of Wesley; the specific work is identified in the passage as an essay on Providence; no title given by Southey. Cowley is quoted within Southey's Life of Wesley, attributed 'Cowley, quoted by Southey.' Fuller copies the passage.