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WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ.

OF THE INNER TEMPLE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis
Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunæ,
Omnia pervolitat late loca, jamque sub auras
Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti.

VIRG. Æn. viil.
So water, trembling in a polish'd vase,
Reflects the beam that plays upon its face;
The sportive light, uncertain where it falls,
Now strikes the roof, now flashes on the walls.

VOL. I.

STEREOTYPED BY T. H. CARTER & CO. BOSTON.

Boston:

PUBLISHED BY TIMOTHY BEDLINGTON,
No. 31, WASHINGTON-STREET.

-9-1932

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME.

2

.

Table Talk,

11

Progress of Errour,

32

Truth,

49

Expostulation,

65

Hope,

85

Charity,

· 106

Conversation,

124

Retirement,

· 149

The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock in

Essex,

171

Sonnet to Henry Cowper, Esq.

. 174

Lines addressed to Dr. Darwin,

• 175

On Mrs. Montagu's Feather-Hangings,

176

Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander

Selkirk during his abode in the Island of

Juan Fernandez,

• 178

On the promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to

the Chancellorship of England,

- 180

Ode to Peace,

- 181

Human Frailty,

• 182

The Modern Patriot,

183

On observing some names of little Note recorded

in the Biographia Britannica,

- 184

Report of an adjudged Case, not to be found in

any of the Books,

ibid.

On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, 186

On the Same,

· 187

The Love of the World reproved,

- 188

On the death of Lady Throckmorton's Bulfinch, 189

The Rose,

190

The Doves,

A Fable,