THE WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS

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1860

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To the Rev W Unwin On visiting prisoners
85
Origin of Cowpers acquaintance with Lady Austen
96
Cowpers verses on the visit of Miss Stapleton
100
To the same State of Cowpers mind Lady Aus
102
To Lady Hesketh Salutary effects of affliction
116
To the same March 6 1782 Political remarks
128
PART THE SECOND
135
To the same Newtons Treatise on Prophecy
136
To the Rev William Bull Nov 5 1782 On his
141
To Joseph Hill Esq Feb 13 1783 Remarks
147
To the Rev John Newton March 7 1783 Compar
149
De la Landes explanation of them
156
To the Rev John Newton Oct 6 1783 Religious
162
Character of Dr Johnsons Diary 226
168
To the same Feb 10 1784 Cowpers nervous state
174
To the same Feb 1784 The thaw kindness of
180
Mr Newtons sermon on that subject
190
To Lady Hesketh Pearsalls Meditations definition
191
To the same On the thankfulness of the heart
200
To Joseph Hill Esq Feb 27 1785 Inquiry con
212
To the same June 4 1785 Character of the
220
Arguments for the necessity of conversion
227
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230
Remarks on Herons Letters on Literature
236
To Samuel Rose Esq Feb 5 1791 Thanks for sub
239
To Joseph Hill Esq Account of his situation
240
To Lady Hesketh March 6 1786 On elisions in
248
To the same May 15 1786 Anticipations of her
254
To the same May 29 1786 Delay of her coming
260
Explanatory remarks on the preceding letter
272
Cowper has a severe attack of nervous fever
278
To the same Feb 22 1788 Remarks on Burkes
296
Extracts from Cowpers poems on negro slavery
302
Cowpers lines on the blessings of spiritual liberty
303
To Joseph Hill Esq May 24 1788 Thanks for
309
To the same Declining to read lectures at Lincolns
310
To the Rev John Newton June 24 1788 Difficul
315
To Mrs Cowper Mrs Unwin and her son
317
To the same April 22 1789 He informs Mrs K that
327
Remarks on Cowpers observation that authors
333
Commencement of Cowpers acquaintance with
339
To Mrs King March 12 1790 On her favorable
345
To Mrs King June 14 1790 His literary occupa
351
To Samuel Rose Esq Sept 13 1790 On his mar
357
To the same May 26 1792 State of Mrs Unwin
406
To Mrs King Oct 14 1792 Reference to the visit
420
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425
To Mr Thomas Hayley March 14 1793 In answer
426
Cowpers journey to Cambridge on his brothers ill
433
To Mrs Charlotte Smith July 25 1793 On her poem
439
To Mrs Cowper Daugerous illness of his brother
443
To William Hayley Esq Sept 8 1793 Flaxmans
445
Increasing infirmities of Mrs Unwin and their effect
455
Appearance of dropsy
461
The composition of the Olney Hymns by Mr Newton
467
Remarks on the preceding Memoir
475
Narrative of Mr Van Lier
492
Concluding remarks
507
Charity
517
The Progress of Error
525
Expostulation 534 The Colubriad
540
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541
Retirement
558
To the same Acknowledging obligations July 2 1772 55
567
The Winter Evening
582
To the same Selection of books July 13 1777 58
589
Epistle to Joseph Hill
602
The Yearly Distress or Tithing Time at Stock
610
Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Married State
618
The Faithful Bird
624
An Epistle to Robert Lloyd
633
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636
In Memory of the late John Thornton
640
Account of the Authors Treatment of his Hares
647
From a letter o the Rev Mr Newton
653
The Christian
662
Walking with
670
The hidden Life
680
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE
691
TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN AND ITALIAN POEMS
705
On the death of the ViceChancellor a Physician
711
An Ode addressed to Mr John Rouse Librarian
717
Familiarity dangerous
722
Avarus et Plutus
729
Hor Book I Ode IX
735
In Submersionem Navigii cui Georgius Regale
741
Addressed to Misson reading the Prayer for
747

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Сторінка 281 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise. In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Сторінка 158 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Сторінка 122 - The style of Dryden is capricious and varied, that of Pope is cautious and uniform; Dryden obeys the motions of his own mind, Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field, rising into inequalities and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe and levelled by the roller.
Сторінка 152 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Сторінка 302 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Сторінка 464 - Nor, cruel as it seem'd, could he Their haste himself condemn, Aware that flight, in such a sea, Alone could rescue them; Yet bitter felt it still to die Deserted, and his friends so nigh. He long survives, who lives an hour In ocean, self-upheld; And so long he, with unspent power, His destiny repell'd; And ever as the minutes flew, Entreated help, or cried - 'Adieu!
Сторінка 171 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Сторінка 213 - Twelve years have elapsed since I last took a view Of my favourite field, and the bank where they grew; And now in the grass behold they are laid, And the tree is my seat that once lent me a shade. The blackbird has fled to another retreat, Where the hazels afford him a screen from the heat, And the scene where his melody charm'd me before Resounds with his sweet flowing ditty no more.
Сторінка 464 - At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more : For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank. No poet wept him ; but the page Of narrative sincere, That tells his name, his worth, his age, Is wet with Anson's tear : 'And tears by bards or heroes shed Alike immortalize the dead. I therefore purpose not, or dream, Descanting on his fate, To give the melancholy theme A more enduring date :...
Сторінка 485 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.

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