BY

WILLIAM COWPER.

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL INTRODUCTION,

BY THE REV. THOMAS DALE:

AND

SEVENTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS, ENGRAVED BY J. ORRIN SMITH,

FROM DRAWINGS BY JOHN GILBERT.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXLI.

M2

LENOX LIBRAR

NEW YORK

WRIGHT AND CO., PRINTERS,

FLEET STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

THE TASK, in Six Books :-

Book I.-The Sofa

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II. The Timepiece

III.-The Garden

IV. The Winter Evening

V.-The Winter Morning Walk

VI.-The Winter Walk at Noon

Tirocinium; or, a Review of Schools .

Page

1

31

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. 153

. 187

220

225

Yardley Oak

Sonnet, addressed to William Hayley, Esq. .

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture, out of Norfolk. 226

On the Queen's Visit to London, March 17, 1789

Annus Memorabilis, 1789, written in Commemoration of

His Majesty's happy Recovery

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267

Sonnet, to William Wilberforce, Esq. .

To Dr. Austin, of Cecil Street, London

. 277

. 277

. 275

Sonnet, to George Romney, Esq.

Page

278

To Mrs. Unwin

To Mary

On the Loss of the Royal George.

Stanzas, subjoined to a Bill of Mortality for 1787.

On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1788

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286

On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1789

On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1790

On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1792

On a Similar Occasion, for the Year 1793

Inscription for a Stone on sowing a Grove of Oaks

In Memory of the late John Thornton, Esq.

Verses to the Memory of Dr. Lloyd

Epitaph on Mrs. M. Higgins

Epitaph on "Fop".

Epitaph on a Hare.

Lines, composed for a Memorial of Ashley Cowper, Esq. 303

Hymn for the Use of the Sunday School at Olney.

The History of John Gilpin .

TRANSLATIONS FROM VINCENT BOURNE:-

304

. 306

V. Reciprocal Kindness the Primary Law of Nature

VI. The Thracian

. 321

322

VII. A Manual, more ancient than the Art of Printing. 323

VIII. An Enigma .

325

IX. Sparrows, self-domesticated in Trinity College

XVIII. No Sorrow peculiar to the Sufferer.

XIX. The Snail

. 334

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