BEAUTIES OF COWPER. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR AND OBSERVATIONS ON HIS WRITINGS. NEWARK: FOR R. DUTTON, BIRCHIN LANE, CORNHILL; AND 3. BOOTH, 1801. (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) PREFACE. THE candid reader will readily perceive, that the following Selection is not, to use a significant phrase, got up in the usual way; but that the Editor has taken some pains in collecting materials for the life of his Author, and that great attention has also been paid to the typography and paper of the present little work. In addition to these, it may not be improper to observe, that due exertions have been made to procure an accurate and elegant likeness of Mr. Cowper; and that Notes are added, for the illustration of such passages in his writings, as might not otherwise be perfectly understood. May, 1801. b |