seems to have supplied him most unexpectedly, at different periods of his troubled existence, with exactly such friends, as the peculiar exigencies of his situation required. The truth of this remark is exemplified in the seasonable assistance, that his tender spirits derived from the kindness of Mrs. Unwin, at Huntingdon, of Lady Austen and Lady Hesketh, at Olney, and of his young kinsman, in Norfolk, who will soon attract the notice, and obtain the esteem of my reader, as the affectionate superintendant of Cowper's declining days. To the honor of hu man nature and of the present times, it will appear, that a sequestered poet, pre-eminent in genius and calamity, was beloved and assisted by his friends of both sexes, with a purity of zeal, and an inexhaustible ardour of affection, more resembling the friendship of the heroic ages, than the precarious attachments of the modern world. END OF THE SECOND VOLUME, IN DE X. LIFE OF COWPER, PART THE SECOND." Letter. Pages The origin of Cowper's acquaintance with Lady Austen.... 5 1781 .... 1 To the Rev. W. Unwin. Duty of submitting to injury: story of an Abbé. 7 .......... July 29,.. 13 2 To the same. His poem, Retirement; Lady Austen's set tling at Olney.. August 25.17 1782 13 To the same. On some verses of Lowth's: on the origin of his correspondence with Lady Austen.... February 9-.21 A billet and verses from Cowper to Lady Austen, 24 4 To the Rev. W Unwin. Observations on religious characters 26 On his own volume of poems; on his letter 5 To the same. to the chancellor 6 To the same. On the same subject••• March 18.30 April 1..34 7 To the same. The dignity of the Latin language; on pa renthesis, . ...... April 27.36 8 To the same. Dr. Franklin's letter; providential escape of 11 To the same. Account of a viper in the green-house; poems of Madame Guion The Colubriad, a sportive poem ***** July 16..46 August 8.51 ..56 Letter. Page. 64 Three songs written for Lady Austen's harpsichord ................ 58 14 To the same. Dr. Beattie; translation of Madame Guion's poems 73 1783 15 To the same. Mr.'s charity and benevolence, Jan 19.75 .Feb. 8..78 17 To J. Hill, Esq. Favorable reception given to his poems, 18 To the same. 19 To the same. Feb. 13.79 Dr. Franklin's letter transcribed, Feb. 20.80 20 To the Rev. J. Newton: Reflections on the illness of a friend, ...... 82 April 5..83 24 To the Rev. J. Newton. 26 To the Rev. J. Newton. 27 To the same. 28 To the same. 29 To the same. May 26..90 June 8..83 On his eccelesiastical history; On religious zeal, Translation of Mr. Newton's letter into June 29.101 His love of home; style of Robertson and Gibbon,. .. ... ......July 27.102 Aug. 4..106 30 To the Rev. W. Unwin. On ballads; anecdote of his gold- finch,..... Letter. ·Page, 31 To the same. Madame Guion's poems, Sept. 7..111 32 To the Rev. J. Newton. On his recovery from a fever; story of a clerk in a public office. 33 To the same. Description of a visit to Mr. 34 To the Rev. W. Unwin. Philosophers happy; ..Sept. 8..113 Sept. 23.116 35 To the Rev. J. Newton. Tendency of the gospel to pro- .Oct. 6..124 ..128 36 To the same. On the American Loyalists,....Oct. ... 131 ..133 Its progress related in passages from letters to Mr. Bull,..135 39 To the same. Same subject; 40 To the same. Nov. 10.144 L'Estrange's Josephus Account of Mr. and Mrs. Throckmorton, 151 1784. 41 To the same. East India Company's charter, 42 To the Rev. J. Newton. Departure of the old year, Jan 18.159 43 To the Rev. W. Unwin. 45 To the same. .. State of departed spirits, Jan. 161 Our fore-fathers not nervous; Adam, as he 46 To the same. 47 To the same. Secret charity at Olney: parliamentary de- Feb. bates,.. ...177 Feb. 29.180 Letter. 49 To the Rev. J. Newton. On the Theological Miscellany; 50 To the same. Style and spirit of Mr. Newton's apology; Page March 8.183 March 11. 185 Danger of trifling with our Maker; earth- 53 To the same. 54 To the Rev. W. Unwin. Beattie and Blair; origin of lan- guage • April 5..196 56 To the Rev. J. Newton. Difference of style between Beat- ... 57 To the Rev. W. Unwin. On face-painting.... · April 26.·204 .... May 3..208 58 To the same. Declines writing a sequel to John Gilpin, May 8.213 59 To the Rev. J. Newton. Dr. Johnson's favorable opi- 63 To the Rev. W. Unwin. Vincent Bourne ; .... July 5..224 Hume's es- 64 To the Revd. J. Newton, Madness sometimes humourous and sometimes whimsical, ...July 19.232 65 To the same. Pleasant situation of Lymington; Mr. Gil- • July 28..233 August 14..236 16..239 67 To the Rev. J. Newton. Capt. Cook's last voyage 68 To the Rev. W. Unwin. Publication of the Task, Sep. 11..243 69 To J. Hill, Esq. Dr. Cotton truly a philosopher ..246 |