IN SIX BOOKS. BY WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. OF THE INNER TEMPLE. EXETER: PUBLISHED BY J. & B. WILLIAMS. 1836. ADVERTISEMENT. THE history of the following production is briefly is: a lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of hat kind from the author, and gave him the SOFA for subject. He obeyed; and, having much leisure, coneeted another subject with it; and pursuing the train f thought to which his situation and turn of mind ed him, brought forth, at length, instead of the rifle which he at first intended, a serious affair—a Volume. |