THE LIFE OF WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ., LL. D., POET LAUREATE, ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LOSTON: OTIS, BROADERS, AND COMPANY. 1839. CONTENTS. Page. 7777 Not related to the Scotch Bishop Cowper.. Her epitaph..... 1737. Cowper sent to school at Market Street, Hertfordshire..... Cruelly treated there by one of the boys.. 1739. Placed in the house of an oculist on account of a disease in 1741. Sent to Westminster school... 1745. The small-pox relieves his eyes.. His character in boyhood misrepresented by himself. His complaint that religion had been neglected in his edu- Scene in St. Margaret's churchyard.. Fancies himself consumptive...... His recollections of Westminster pleasurable. |