ENGLISH CLASSICS

COWPER

H. T. GRIFFITH

VOL I.

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COWPER

THE DIDACTIC POEMS OF 1782

WITH SELECTIONS FROM THE MINOR PIECES

A. D. 1779-1783

EDITED

WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

HENRY THOMAS GRIFFITH, B. A.

Vicar of Felmingham, Norfolk

Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Oxford

VOL. I

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AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

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MINOR POEMS (1779-1781)

LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED (Feb. 1779)

THE PINEAPPLE AND THE BEE (Sept. 1779) .

ON THE PROMOTION OF EDW. THURLOW TO

THE LORD CHANCELLORSHIP (Nov. 1779) .

THE MODERN PATRIOT (Feb. 1780)

THE

ON A GOLDFINCH (1780)

REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE (Dec. 1780).

THE DIDACTIC POEMS (published in 1782)

TABLE TALK (Dec. 1780).

THE PROGRESS OF ERROR (Dec. 1780)

TRUTH (Jan. 1781) .

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