The Works of William Cowper / His life, letters, and poems, now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence

by William Cowper

[606] Dr. Douglas.

[607] See verses addressed to John Johnson, Esq.

[608] An alarming attack with which Mrs. Unwin was visited.

[609]

Mœstus eram, et tacitus nullo comitante sedebam,
Hærebantque animo tristia plura mee: &c. &c.

[610] Warton informs us that the distinguished brothers alluded to in Milton's elegy are the Duke of Brunswick and Count Mansfelt, who fell in the war of the Palatinate, that fruitful scene of warlike operations. The two latter are the Earls of Oxford and Southampton, who died at the siege of Breda, in the year 1625.

[611] Private correspondence.

[612] Private correspondence.

[613] Lord Bagot.

[614] How much more charitable is Cowper's comment, than the injurious surmise of Warton!