"Obversatur oculis ille vir, quo neminem ætas nostra graviorem, sanctiorem, subtilio.
rem denique tulit: quem ego quum ex admiratione diligere cepissem, 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."

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VOL. I.

PLINII EPIST. LIB. IV. EP. 17.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY W. PELHAM, MANNING LORING

AND E. LINCOLN.

CONTENTS OF VOL. I.

INTRODUCT

INTRODUCTORY LETTER.

The Life, Part the First-The Family, Birth, and First Residence

of Cowper-His Eulogy on the Tenderness of his Mother, pages

15, 16, 17-Her Epitaph by her Niece, 18-The Schools that

Cowper attended-His fufferings in Childhood, 20, 21-Leaves

Westminster and is ftationed in the house of an Attorney, 23-

Verfes on his early Afflictions, 24-Settles in the Inner Temple-

His Acquaintance with eminent Authors, 25-His Epistle to Lloyd,

26-His Tranflations in Duncombe's Horace, 29-His own Account

of his early Life, 30-Stanzas on reading Sir Charles Grandifon, 30

---Verfes Written at Bath, 1748, 31-His Nomination to the Office

of Reading Clerk in the House of Lords, 33—His extreme dread of

appearing in Public, 34-His Health deranged-His Retirement to

the House of Dr. Cotton at St. Alban's, 35-His Recovery, 37-

He fettles at Huntingdon to be near his Brother refiding in Cam-

bridge, 37-The Two Brothers employed on a Tranflation of Vol-

taire's Henriade, 37—The Origin of Cowper's Acquaintance with

the Family of Unwin, 38-He becomes a Part of that Family, 40

—His early Friendship with Lord Thurlow and Joseph Hill,
Efq. 40-Commencement of his Letters.

The origin of Cowper's acquaintance with the Rev. Mr. New-
ton, 66-His removal with Mrs. Unwin on the death of her

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