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been deemed by a misjudging world, ignorant of his pursuits, and incapable of relishing his enjoyments-a gloomy enthusiast, is hardly to be considered matter of surprise. But it does appear singular that others, who professed to have studied his history and dispositions, should have ever represented him as a person religiously unhappy. It has been one great object in this Memoir-and we trust the duty has not been unsuccessfully discharged-to set that question at rest for ever. In rescuing his faith from the false-the impossible charge, of having caused his wretchedness, the biographer of Cowper confers a benefit equally on literature and on Christianity. For upon the inseparable, yet mild union of these in his moral character, depends the desirable influence of his works upon society. How many have reason to bless his memory, whose verse introduced them to the delights of genuine poetry, without the blandishments of idle reading! and how many more are there who find in that verse a yet deeper tone of inspiration-a higher note of ecstasyeven the "voice of Scripture!" Now, we would that these two classes of admirers be henceforth joined in their admiration of the poet, and in their reliance on the emphatic eulogy of one who knew him, that "Cowper was truly a good as well as a wise man." Then shall all have reason to rejoice in the Christian classic of the national literature · the true bard of the Cross!

Poet and saint, to him are justly given

The two most sacred names of earth and heaven.

END OF THE LIFE.

LETTERS.

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COWPER'S RECOVERY FROM HIS FIRST ILLNESS-REMOVAL FROM ST ALBANS -SITUATION AT HUNTINGDON.

HUNTINGDON, June 24, 1765. DEAR JOE,- The only recompense I can make you for your kind attention to my affairs during my illness, is to tell you, that, by the mercy of God, I am restored to perfect health, both of mind and body. This, I believe, will give you pleasure, and I would gladly do any thing from which you could receive it.

I left St Albans on the seventeenth, and arrived that day at Cambridge, spent some time there with my brother, and came hither on the twenty-second. I have a lodging that puts me continually in mind of our summer excursions; we have had many worse, and, except the size of it, (which, however, is sufficient for a single man,) but few better. I am not quite alone, having brought a servant with me from St Albans, who is the very mirror of fidelity and affection for his master. And whereas the Turkish Spy says, he kept no servant, because he would not have an enemy in his house, I hired mine, because I would have a friend. Men do not usually bestow these encomiums on their lackeys, nor do they usually deserve them; but I have had experience of mine, both in sickness and in health, and never saw his fellow.

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