...fine writing, and which bears a great resemblance to the degeneracy which marks the style of Ammianus Marcellinus, as compared to that of Cicero or of Livy....this account, be as useful in forming the taste of the young, as his poetry." We have particularly admired the Letters of Cowper, for the illustration...

...are substituted for chaste ornament : and the hideous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion, the study of Cowper's prose...* * • • * "That the letters will afford great de, light to all persons of true taste, and that you will confer a most acceptable present on the reading...

...colours are substituted for chaste ornament, and the hideous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion, the study of Cowper's prose...forming the taste of young people as his poetry."— Extract of a letter to the Editor from the Rev. R. Hall, of Leicester. The first volume commences with...

...colours are substituted for chaste ornament, and the hideous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion, the study of Cowper's prose...world by publishing them, will not admit of a doubt/' To this testimony to the merits of the epistolary style of Cowper from so high an authority, it would...

...colours are substituted for chaste ornament, and the hideous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion, the study of Cowper's prose...delight to all persons of true taste, and that you wiH confer a most acceptable present on the reading world by publishing them, will not admit of a doubt."...

...colours arc substituted for chaste ornament, and the hideous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion the study of Cowper's prose may,...useful in forming the taste of young people as his pnctry. That these letters will afford great delight to all persons of true taste, and that you will...

...substituted for chaste ornament, ¡tn-.l the hirleous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion, the study of Cowper's prose may, on this account, be as useful in forming the tasten!' young people as his poetry." — Exlraet of a letter to the editor from the Rev. K. ¡{ail,...

...weakness for natiru strength. In my .; opinion, the study of Cowper'i Correspondence of W. Cowper. 303 prose may, on this account, be as useful in forming the taste of young people, as his poetry." It had been taken for granted that, since the whole, or nearly the whole, of the recoverable letters...

...description to the former," we concur with him in , opinion that " the study of Cowper's prose may be as useful in forming the taste of young people as his poetry; and that to an air of inimitable ease and carelessness they unite a high degree of correctness, such...

...colours are substituted for chaste ornament, and the hideous distortions of weakness for native strength. In my humble opinion the study of Cowper's prose may, on this account, he as useful in forming the taste of young people as his poetry. That these letters will afford great...