The Miscellaneous Works of William Cowper ... With a life and notes, by John S. Nemes

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TNHKP. ->tjiii ______ o F B&. . Xft PUBLISH EDB_ ■ ■ . ■ ■ CONTENTS. PAGE Table Talk, . . . . . . . 1 The Procress of Error, . . . . .21 Truth, ........ 39 Expostulation, ....... 57 Hope, ... .... 79 Charitv, ........ 101 Conversation, . . . . . . . 119 Retirement, ....... 145 The Task, ....... 167 Book I The Sofa, . . . . . .178 Book II The Time-Piece, . . . . 193 Book III.— The Garden, . . . . .214 Book IV The Winter Evening, .... 236 Book V The Winter Morning Walk, . . .257 Book VI The Winter Walk at Noon, ... 281 Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, .... 307 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. The Doves, ........ 335 A Fable, 1336 A Comparison, ....... 338 Another. Addressed to a Young Lady, .... ib. Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez, .... 309 On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England, ...... 341 Ode to Peace, . . . . . . . .342 Another, ....... ib.

The Modern Patriot, ....... 343 On observing some Names of Little Note recorded in the Biographia Britannica, ....... 344 Report of an Adjudged Case, not to be found in any of the Books, . 345 On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, . . . 346 On the same, ....... 347 The Love of the World Reproved ; or, Hypocrisy Detected, . ib. CONTENTS. PAGE The Lily and the Rose, . • • • • .348 The Nightingale and Glow- Worm, .... 349 On a Goldfinch, Starved to Death in his Cage, . . . 350 The Pine-Apple and the Bee, ... . 351 Horace, Book II. Ode X. . . . • .352 A Reflection on the foregoing Ode, .... 353 The Shrubbery, Written in a time of Affliction, . . . 354 The Winter Nosegay, ...... 355 Mutual Forbearance necessary to the Happiness of the Married State, ib. To the Rev. Mr Newton. An Invitation into the Country, . 357 Boadicea.

An Ode, . . . . . 358 Heroism, ........ 359 The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant, . . . 362 To the Rev. W. Cawthome Unwin, .... 364 Friendship, ........ 365 The Yearly Distress, or Tithing Time at Stock, in Essex, . 371 To the Rev. Mr Newton, ...... 373 To Sir Joshua Reynolds, ...... 374 To Mrs Newton, ....... 375 The Flatting-Mill. An Illustration. .... 376 Love Abused, ....... 377 A Poetical Epistle to Lady Austen, .... ib. From a Letter to the Rev. Mr Newton, . . . 380 To the Rev. William Bull, ..... 381 The Colubriad, ....... 383 On the Loss of the Royal George, .... 384 The Diverting History of John Gilpin, .... 386 Song on Peace, ....... 394 Another, ........ ib. The Rose, ........ 395 The Faithful Friend, ..... . 396 Valediction, ....... 397 Pairing Time Anticipated. A Fable, ..... 399 An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. ..... 401 Epitaph on a Hare, ....... 403 Epitaphium Alterum, .... 404 The Poplar Field, •••... 405 The Needless Alarm.