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Cowper, William, 1731-1800

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  • A youth idling by a brook, representing restful withdrawal from the world. Engraving by J. Heath, 1810, after R. Westall.
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    Olney hymns, in three books. Book I. On Select Texts of Scripture. Book II. On Occasional Subjects. Book III. On the Progress and Changes of the Spiritual Life. The Fourth Edition.

    Newton, John, 1725-1807. | Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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    An hymn, written by William Cowper, Esq. to be sung after the sermon for the benefit of the children of the Sunday-Schools.

    Cowper, William, 1731-1800. | Date: [1790?]
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    Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In two volumes. Vol. I. [Four lines in Latin from Virgil' Aenid, with English translation]

    Cowper, William, 1731-1800. | Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]
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    Poems, by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Volume the second. Containing The Task. An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools. And The History of John Gilpin. Fit surculus arbor. Anonym.

    Cowper, William, 1731-1800. | Date: 1786
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    Gilpin's rig; or the wedding day kept, a droll story; read by Mr. Henderson, at Free-Masons Hall and Mr. Baddeley, at Drury Lane Theatre. Containing An Account of John Gilpin, the Bold Linen Draper of Cheapside; how he went farther and faster than he intended, and came Home safe at last.

    Cowper, William, 1731-1800. | Date: [1785?]
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