REMARKS ON HIS WRITINGS, AND ON THE PECULIARITIES
OF HIS INTERESTING CHARACTER,

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.

BY THOMAS TAYLOR.

"Untainted with the blandishments of vice,
Which mark the manners of the present age,
He sought and found the pearl of precious price
Which stands recorded in the sacred page.
Yet, spite of all that wisdom could impart, ~

And all the error of religious flame,

Grief poured & tice of anguish through his heart,
And shook the rabric of his mental frame."

SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD LONDON EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

KEY & BIDDLE, 23 MINOR STREET.

NIMMEZOIY

824083 BT

TO

R. D. ALEXANDER, ESQ. F.L.S.

THE STEADY, DETERMINED, AND PERSEVERING FRIEND
OF HUMANITY,

THIS LIFE

OF THE AMIABLE, PIOUS, AND HIGHLY-GIFTED,
BUT DEEPLY-AFFLICTED POET,

COWPER,

WHICH OWES ITS EXISTENCE ENTIRELY TO HIS SUGGESTION,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

AS A SLIGHT, BUT SINCERE AND GRATEFUL,
TRIBUTE OF ESTEEM,

FOR THE NUMEROUS UNMERITED FAVORS RECEIVED FROM