BY WILLIAM COWPER, OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. CONTAINING HIS POSTHUMOUS POETRY, AND A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. BY HIS KINSMAN, JOHN JOHNSON, LL. D. RECTOR OF YAXHAM WITH WELBORNE, HIS VIRTUES FORM'D THE MAGIC OF HIS SONG. COWPER'S EPITAPH. LONDON: PRINTED FOR F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; LAW AND WHITAKER; LONGMAN AND HOLDSWORTH, LEEDS. 1815. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL SPENCER. MY LORD, A GENERAL request having encouraged me to become the Editor of a more complete collection of the posthumous Compositions of my revered Relation, the Poet CowPER, than has hitherto appeared, I consider it as my duty to the deceased, to inscribe the Volume that contains them to his exalted Friend, by whom the genius of the Poet was as justly appretiated, as the virtues of the Moralist were effectually patronized. It would be impertinent in me to attempt any new encomium on a Writer so highly endeared to every cultivated mind in that country which it was the favourite exercise of his patriotic spirit |