BY WILLIAM COWPER, Of the Inner Temple, Efq. IN TWO VOLUME S. VOL. I. Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis Virg. Æn. viii. So water, trembling in a polished vase, A NEW EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. PREFACE ΤΟ THE FIRST VOLUME. WHEN an Author, by appearing in print, requests an audience of the Public, and is upon the point of fpeaking for himself, whoever prefumes to ftep before him with a preface, and to fay, "Nay, but hear me firft," fhould have fomething worthy of attention to offer, or he will be justly deemed officious and impertinent. The judicious reader has probably, upon other occafions, been beforehand with me in this reflection : and I am not very willing it fhould now be applied to me, A VOL. I. |