THE

LIFE,

AND

POSTHUMOUS WRITINGS,

OF

WILLIAM COWPER, ESQR.

WITH AN

INTRODUCTORY LETTER,

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL COWPER.

BY WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQR.

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

PLINII EPIST. Lib. 4. Ep. 17.

VOL. II.

SECOND EDITION.

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CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

The Life, Part the Third-Cowper is solicited to engage in a splendid Edition of Milton-→→→

Acquiesces in the Proposal-Origin of his Intimacy with his present Biographer, to page 6

-His Friendship for the late Professor of Poetry, the Revd. James HurdisContinuation

of his Letters.

The Author's Visit to Weston, page 42-Sonnet to Mrs. Unwin by Cowper, 43--Her severe

Illness and gradual Recovery, 44, 45, 46.