. The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, esq. With an introductory letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper . mmlili Peace to the Artist -whose ingeiiinus thoughtDevised the Weather-home, that useful toy:Fearless of humid air and gathering rainsForth steps the Man, an emblem of myself,More delicate his timorous mate retires. mm IS 7f gT Cc\:pers tame ILnrs. CONCLUSION. Astanti sat erit si dicam sim tibi curae: ******* Forsitan et nostros ducat de marmore vultusNectens aut paphia myrti, aut parnasside lauriFronde comas, at ego secura pace quiescam. SIILTONI MANSUS. X
. The life and posthumous writings of William Cowper, esq. With an introductory letter to the Right Honourable Earl Cowper . mmlili Peace to the Artist -whose ingeiiinus thoughtDevised the Weather-home, that useful toy:Fearless of humid air and gathering rainsForth steps the Man, an emblem of myself,More delicate his timorous mate retires. mm IS 7f gT Cc\:pers tame ILnrs. CONCLUSION. Astanti sat erit si dicam sim tibi curae: ******* Forsitan et nostros ducat de marmore vultusNectens aut paphia myrti, aut parnasside lauriFronde comas, at ego secura pace quiescam. SIILTONI MANSUS. X shall but need to say^ be yet my friend:He toOf perhaps, shall bid the marble breatheTo honour me; and with the graceful wreath^Or of Parnassus., or the Paphian Isle,Shall bind my brows—but I shall rest the while, COWPERS TRANSLATION. THE CONCLUSION. 1 HOUGH it seems unnecessary to enumerate the many publiccompliments that have been paid, by a variety of writers, to thepoetical excellence of Cowper, I must not fail to notice a privatetribute to his merit, which the kindness of a distant friend trans-mitted to me while these volumes were in the press. In the form of a letter, to an accomplished author of Ireland, itcomprizes a series of extensive observations on the poetry of mydeparted friend; observations so full of taste and feeling, that Ihope
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