LIST OF THE PLATES.

Plate

1. Yardley Oak.

2. Peasants' Nest.

3. The Rustic Bridge.

4. View from the Alcove.

5. The Avenue, with the Alcove in the distance.

6. Monumental Urn in the Wilderness; inscribed to a favourite

Pointer.

7. The Temple in the Wilderness.

8. Weston Lodge, late Cowper's Residence.

9. Weston Hall, the Seat of Sir George Throckmorton, Bart.

10. The Elms.

11. The Shrubbery, with the Moss House.

12. The Town of Olney, and part of the Bridge.

13. The Market-place, Olney-; shewing the House in which Cowper resided, a large brick building. The Entrance to Silver End is seen in the distance.

14. Cowper's Summer House: across the intervening Orchard is seen the back of the Vicarage, over which appears the Spire of Olney Church.

15. The Vicarage.

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MEMOIR

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AMONG the literary characters that, in the present age, have attained celebrity by the extent of their genius and excellence of their productions, must be ranked the poet Cowper; who, uniting piety to talent, has employed the graces of poesy to strengthen the bands of morality, and give energy to the precepts which direct the heart to religion and virtue. The general tendency of his writings is, undoubtedly, to excite and give permanence to the feelings which promote reflection, and incline the thoughts to another and a better state; yet, although chiefly emanating from this principle, those