OF

COWPER.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

A

LIFE OF THE AUTHOR

AND

OBSERVATIONS ON HIS WRITINGS.

NEWARK:

Printed by Holt aid Hage;
TOR R. DUTTON, BIRCHIN LANE, CORNHILL; AND J. BOOTH,
DUKE STREET, PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON.

1801.
(Entered at Stationers' Hall.)

LENOX LIBRARA NEW YORK

CONTENTS.

LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

PART I,

Religious, Moral, and Didactic.

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Piety

National Expostulation

The Pulpit, the best advocate of Virtue

The Regular operations of Nature miraculous

The Second Advent ....

The Patriot Hero

The Kingly Office ..

Man a Free Agent

Novels

The Press.

Modern Sceptics

True Gaiety ...

Cities Characterized.

Rural Life Preferred

Moral Reflections

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