OF WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ COMPILED FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES OF INFORMATION CONTAINING REMARKS ON HIS WRITINGS, AND ON THE PECULIARITIES NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. BY THOMAS TAYLOR. "Untainted with the blandishments of vice, And all the fervor of religious flame, Grief poured a tide of anguish through his heart, SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION. PHILADELPHIA: EDWARD C. RIDDLE, 5 MINOR STREET. N THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 202037 ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900. L G. BROWN-GOODE COLLECTION, 1 PRINTED BY T. K. & P. G. COLLINS, PHILA. ΤΟ R. D. ALEXANDER, ESQ. F.L.S. THE STEADY, DETERMINED, AND PERSEVERING FRIEND OF HUMANITY, THIS LIFE OF THE AMIABLE, PIOUS, AND HIGHLY-GIFTED BUT DEEPLY-AFFLICTED POET, COWPER, WHICH OWES ITS EXISTENCE ENTIRELY TO HIS SUGGESTION IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, AS A SLIGHT, BUT SINCERE AND GRATEFUL, TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM, FOR THE NUMEROUS UNMERITED FAVORS RECEIVED FROM HIM, BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. |