The Works of William Cowper His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

_yours_. No man was ever scolded out of his sins. The heart, corrupt as it is, and because it is so, grows angry if it be not treated with some management and good manners, and...

The family of COWPER appears to have held, for several centuries, a respectable rank among the merchants and gentry of England. We learn from the life of the first Earl Cowper,...

Behold the schools, in which plebeian minds Once simple are initiated in arts, Which some may practice with politer grace, But none with readier skill. 'Tis here they learn The...

"Faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he, Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; Nor number, n...

Bells at a distance--Their effect--A fine noon in winter--A sheltered walk--Meditation better than books--Our familiarity with the course of nature makes it appear less wonderfu...

Without entering upon any minute analysis of the above passages, we consider them as exhibiting a happy specimen of poetic talent; and that Cowper has been successful in exempli...

season of the year, is to walk ten times in a day from the fire-side to his cucumber frame and back again, cannot show his wisdom more, if he has any wisdom to show, than by lea...

"The reader loses half the beauty of this charming simile, who does not give particular attention to the numbers. There is a majesty in them not often equalled, and never surpas...

We leave the reader to form his own decision as to the relative merits of the two translations. Pope evidently produces effect by expanding the sentiments and imagery of his aut...

I am glad that thou hast sent the General those verses on my mother's picture. They will amuse him--only I hope that he will not miss my mother-in-law, and think that she ought...

I should one day be brought to do so. You suffered more than I have done, before you believed these truths; but our sufferings, though different in their kind and measure, were...

A frosty morning--The foddering of cattle--The woodman and his dog--The poultry--Whimsical effects of frost at a waterfall--The Empress of Russia's palace of ice--Amusements of...

Self-recollection and reproof--Address to domestic happiness--Some account of myself--The vanity of many of their pursuits who are reputed wise--Justification of my censures--Di...

Reflections suggested by the conclusion of the former book--Peace among the nations recommended on the ground of their common fellowship in sorrow--Prodigies enumerated--Sicilia...

The post comes in--The newspaper is read--The world contemplated at a distance--Address to winter--The rural amusements of a winter evening compared with the fashionable ones--A...

DAVENPORT'S Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language; in which the meaning of every word is clearly explained, and the sound of every syllable disti...

The office of doing justice to the poetical genius of Cowper has been assigned to an individual so well qualified to execute it with taste and ability, that the Editor begs thus...

"The sublimest of all subjects was reserved for Milton; and, bringing to the contemplation of that subject, not only a genius equal to the best of theirs but a heart also deeply...

Dog! neither knees nor parents name to me. I would my fierceness of revenge were such, That I could carve and eat thee, to whose arms Such griefs I owe; so true it is and sure,...

So saying, his keen falchion from his side He drew, well temper'd, ponderous, and rush'd At once to combat. As the eagle darts Right downward through a sullen cloud to seize Wea...

Oh Liberty! the prisoner's pleasing dream, The poet's muse, his passion and his theme; Genius is thine, and thou art fancy's nurse; Lost without thee the ennobling powers of ver...

Since then, with few associates, in remote And silent woods I wander, far from those My former partners of the peopled scene; With few associates, and not wishing more. Here muc...

Me therefore studious of laborious ease, Not slothful, happy to deceive the time, Not waste it, and aware that human life Is but a loan to be repaid with use, When He shall call...

England, with all thy faults I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left, Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrain'd to love thee. Tho'...

I was born of woman, and drew milk As sweet as charity from human breasts. I think, articulate, I laugh and weep, And exercise all functions of a man. How then should I and any...

But all is in his hand, whose praise I seek. In vain the poet sings, and the world hears, If he regard not, though divine the theme. 'Tis not in artful measures, in the chime An...

Not a flow'r But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil. He inspires Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues, And bathes their eyes with nec...

As when around the clear bright moon, the stars Shine in full splendour, and the winds are hush'd, The groves, the mountain-tops, the headland heights, Stand all apparent, not a...