"Observatur oculis ille vir, quo neminem ætas nostra graviorem, sanc- PLINII EPIST. Lib. IV. Ep. 17. VOL. III. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO. ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD. CONTENTS First mention of Mr. Rose, the barrister.. Letters 217 to 236, written in 1786.... 237 to 253, written in 1787... . 254 to 283, written in 1788... Page. THE LIFE OF COWPER. THE visit of Lady Hesketh, to Olney, led to a very favorable change in the residence of Cowper. He had now passed nineteen years in a scene, that was far from suiting him. The house, he inhabited, looked on a market place, and once, in a season of illness, he was so apprehensive of being incommoded by the bustle of a fair, that he requested to lodge, for a single night, under the roof of his friend Mr. Newton; and he was tempted by the more comfortable situation of the vicarage, to remain fourteen months in the house of his benevolent neighbour. His intimacy with this venerable divine was so great, that Mr. Newton has described it in the following remarkable terms, in memoirs of the poet, which affection induced him to begin, but which the troubles and infirmities of very advanced life have obliged him to relinquish. |