William Cowper

PREFATORY REMARKS.

DEDICATION.

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

THE LIFE OF COWPER . PART THE FIRST.

PART THE SECOND.

PART THE THIRD.

MEMOIR OF THE EARLY LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ.

ADELPHI.

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE REV. JOHN COWPER, A.M.

ON THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF COWPER.

PREFACE TO THE POEMS.

TABLE TALK.

THE PROGRESS OF ERROR.

TRUTH.

EXPOSTULATION.

HOPE.

CHARITY.

CONVERSATION.

RETIREMENT.

THE TASK. BOOK I. THE SOFA. ADVERTISEMENT.

BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. THE ARGUMENT.

BOOK III. THE GARDEN. THE ARGUMENT.

BOOK IV. THE WINTER EVENING. THE ARGUMENT.

BOOK V. THE WINTER MORNING WALK. THE ARGUMENT.

BOOK VI. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON. THE ARGUMENT.

AN EPISTLE TO JOSEPH HILL, ESQ.

TIROCINIUM; OR , A REVIEW OF SCHOOLS.

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. JOHN NEWTON.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE OLNEY HYMNS.

THE OLNEY HYMNS. I. WALKING WITH GOD. Gen. v. 24. Oh! for a

BRIEF ACCOUNT OF MADAME GUION, AND OF THE MYSTIC WRITERS.

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF MADAME DE LA MOTHE GUION. THE

TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN AND ITALIAN POEMS OF MILTON. ELEGY I. TO CHARLES DEODATI.

TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE. I. THE GLOWWORM. Beneath the

TRANSLATIONS OF GREEK VERSES. FROM THE GREEK OF JULIANUS. A

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FABLES OF GAY. LEPUS MULTIS AMICUS. Lusus

EPIGRAMS TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN. ON ONE IGNORANT AND

TRANSLATIONS FROM VIRGIL, OVID, HORACE, AND HOMER. THE SALAD,

TRANSLATION FROM VIRGIL. AENEID, BOOK VIII. LINE 18. This Italy

COWPER'S LATIN POEMS. MONTES GLACIALES, IN OCEANO GERMANICO

THREE PAPERS, BY COWPER,

Drawn from the Life by Romney 1782.        W. Greatbach.

WILLIAM COWPER.

BORN 1731 DIED 1800.

THE
LIFE AND WORKS
of
WILLIAM COWPER.
Complete
In one Volume.

THE WORKS

OF

WILLIAM COWPER:

HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS.

NOW FIRST COMPLETED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF

COWPER'S PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITED BY THE

REV. T. S. GRIMSHAWE, A.M., F.S.A., M.R.S.L.,
VICAR OF BIDDENHAM, BEDFORDSHIRE;
AND AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF THE REV. LEGH RICHMOND."

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

LONDON:
WILLIAM TEGG AND Co., CHEAPSIDE.
MDCCCXLIX.

LONDON:
J. HADDON, PRINTER, CASTLE STREET, FINSBURY.