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LIFE AND LETTERS

OF

WILLIAM COWPER, Esq.

WITH

REMARKS

ON

EPISTOLARY WRITERS.

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.

1

A NEW EDITION.

"Obversatur oculis ille vir, quo neminem ætas nostra graviorem, sanctio-
rem, subtiliorem denique tulit: quem ego quum ex admiratione diligere cœpissem,
quod evenire contrà solet, magis admiratus sum, postquum penitus inspexi.
Inspexi enim penitus: nihil a me ille secretum, non joculare, non serium,
non triste, non lætum."

Plinii Epist. Lib. 4, Ep. 17.

VOL. IV.

Chichester:

PRINTED BY W. MASON,

FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON.

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THE

LIFE OF COWPER.

LET us return from a digression of sorrow, from the grave of Cowper's friend Rose, to Cowper himself in a state of chearfulness at Eartham, in the year 1792! Pleased, and enlivened as he was, by the new scenery around him, he failed not to testify, with great tenderness, his frequent remembrance of the friends most deservedly endeared to him in his own village.

LETTER I.

To Mrs. COURTENAY.

Eartham, August 25, 1792.

Without waiting for an answer

to my last, I send my dear Catharina the epitaph she

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