Published. Jan1.1806. by J.Johnson. St Paul's Church Yard London. HORACE. From a Portrait in Crayons by Romney 1792. Engraved by Caroline Watson, Engraver to her Majesty, 1805. TOR LIBRARD NEW-YORK TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL COWPER. By WILLIAM HÀYLEY, Esqr. A NEW AND ENLARGED EDITION. "Observatur oculis ille vir, quo neminem ætas nostra graviorem, sanctiorem, VOL. I. Chichester: PRINTED BY J. SEAGRAVE, FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, LONDON. AN INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL COWPE R. YOUR family, my Lord, our country itself, and the whole literary world, sustained such a loss in the death of that amiable man, and enchanting author, who forms the subject of these Volumes, as inspired the friends of genius and virtue with universal concern. It soon became a general wish, that some authentic, and copious, memorial of a character so highly interesting should be produced with all becoming dispatch; not only to render due honour to the dead, but to alleviate the regret of a nation taking a just, and liberal pride in the reputation of a poet, who had obtained, and deserved, her applause, her esteem, her affection. If this laudable wish, was very sensibly felt by the publick at large, it glowed with peculiar warmth and eagerness in the bosom of the few, who had been so fortunate as to enjoy an intimacy with Cowper in some unclouded periods of his life, and who knew from such an intimacy, that a lively sweetness, and sanctity of spirit, were as truly the characteristics of his social enjoyments, as they are allowed to constitute a principal charm in his poetical productions. It has justly been regarded as a signal blessing, to have possessed the perfect esteem, and confidence, of such a man; and not long after his decease, one of his particular friends presumed to suggest 14. |
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