CONTENTS ... 225 a network Purse, made by herself, May 4, 1793.....224 To Mrs. King, on her kind present to the author, a patch- Gratitude, addressed to Lady Hesketh.. Epistle to an afflicted Lady in France.... Extracts from Letters to Mr. Johnson.... Memorandums in a copy of Clarke's Homer. Extract from a letter to Mr. Rosé... 253 No. 2. Translations of Greek Verses.... ... ... No. 3. Translations from Horace and Virgil. No. 4. Translations from various Latin Poems of Vincent Bourne, and a few Epigrams of Owen... No. 5. Montes glaciales in Latin and English. No. 6. Verses to the Memory of Dr. Lloyd.. No. 7. Translations from the Fables of Gay... Yardley Oak.. ... ...... 296 321 THE LIFE OF COWPER. LET us return from a digression of sorrow, from the grave of Cowper's friend Rose, to Cowper himself in a state of cheerfulness at Eartham, in the year 1792.-Pleased, and enlivened as he was, by the new scenery around him, he failed not to testify, with great tenderness, his frequent remembrance of the friends most deservedly endeared to him in his own village. LETTER CCCCV. TO MRS. COURTENAY. Eartham, August 25, 1792, WITHOUT Waiting for an answer to my last, I send my dear Catharina the epitaph she desired, composed as well as I could compose it in a place where every object, being still new to me, distracts my attention, and makes me as awkward at verse as if I had never dealt in it. Here it is: EPITAPH ON FOP, A DOG BELONGNIG TO LADY THROCKMORTON. Though once a puppy, and though Fop by name, Here moulders one, whose bones some honor claim; No sycophant, although of spaniel race! And though no hound, a martyr to the chace! Ye squirrels, rabbits, leverets, rejoice! Your haunts no longer echo to his voice. He died worn out with vain pursuit of you! "Yes!" the indignant shade of Fop replies, "And worn with vain pursuit, man also dies!" I am here, as I told you in my last, delightfully situated, and in the enjoyment of all that the most friendly hospitality can impart; yet. do I neither forget Weston, nor my friends at Weston: on the contrary, I have at length, though much and kindly pressed to make a longer stay, determined on the day of our departure on the seventeenth of September we shall leave Eartham; four days will be necessary to bring us home again, for I am under a pro |