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BY

WILLIAM COWPER,

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, ESQ.

IN TWO VOLUME S.

VOL. I.

Sicut aquæ tremulum labris ubi lumen ahenis
Sole repercussum, aut radiantis imagine lunæ,
Omnia pervolitat late loca, jamque sub auras
Erigitur, summique ferit laquearia tecti.

VIRG. Æn. viii.

So water, trembling in a polish'd vase,
Reflects the beam that plays upon it's face;
The sportive light, uncertain where it falls,
Now strikes the roof, now flashes on the walls.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON AND CO.

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

1811.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London,

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PREFACE

TO THE

FIRST VOLUME.

WHEN an Author, by appearing in print, requests an audience of the Public, and is upon the point of speaking for himself, whoever presumes to step before him with a preface, and to say, "Nay, but hear me first,"

should have something worthy of attention

to offer, or he will justly be deemed officious
and impertinent. The judicious reader has
probably, upon other occasions, been be-
forehand with me in this reflection: and I

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