THE

LLFE

AND

Posthumous Writings

OF

WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY LETTER

TO THE

Right Honorable Earl Cowper.

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.

"Obversatur oculis ille vir, quo neminem ætas nostra graviorem, sanctiorem, subtilio-
rem denique tulit: quem ego quum ex admiratione diligere cœpissem, quod evenire con-
tra solet, magis admiratus sum, postquam penitus inspexi. Inspexi enim penitus: nihil
a me ille secretum, non joculare, non serium, non triste, non lætum."

VOL. II.

PLINII EPIST. LIB. IV. EP. 17.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY W. PELHAM, MANNING & LORING,

AND E. LINCOLN.

26 X 3 90

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

The Life, Part the Third-Cowper is folicited to engage in a splen-

did Edition of Milton-Acquiefces in the Propofal-Origin of

his Intimacy with his present Biographer, to page 12-His Friend-

ship for the late Profeffor of Poetry, the Rev. James Hurdis→→

Continuation of his Letters

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq. page 37.