IV. The Winter Evening ............... V. The Winter-Morning Walk ...... VI. The Winter Walk at Noon ...... Tirocinium : or, a Review of Schools ......... 116 Table-Talk......................... Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernande ................... 199 John Gilpin ....................................... 201. . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 WILLIAM COWPER. Continued. THE TASK. Book III. THE GARDEN. Argument. Self-recollection and reproof. Address to domestic happiness. Some account of myself. The vanity of many of their pursuits, who are reputed wise. Justification of my censures. Divine illumination necessary to the most expert philosopher. The question, What is truth? answered by other questions. Domestic happiness addressed again. Few lovers of the country. My tame hare. Occupations of a retired gentleman in his garden. Pruning. Framing. Green-house. Sowing of flower-seeds. The country preferable to the town even in the winter. Reasons why it is deserted at that season. Ruinous effects of gaming, and of expensive improvement. Book concludes with an apostrophe to the metropolis. As one, who long in thickets and in brakes YOL. . |