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

by William Cowper

[103] Private correspondence.

[104] Private correspondence.

[105] Goldsmith used to say of Johnson, that he had nothing of the bear but the external roughness of its coat.

[106] Private correspondence.

[107] Private correspondence.

[108] Private correspondence.

[109] Marquis Caraccioli, born at Paris, 1732. It is now well known that the letters of Pope Ganganelli, though passing under the name of that pontiff, were composed by this writer. These letters, as well as all his writings, are distinguished by a sweet strain of moral feeling, that powerfully awakens the best emotions of the heart; but there is a want of more evangelical light. He is also the author of "La Jouissance de soi-même;" "La Conversation avec soi-même;" "La Grandeur d'Ame," &c.; and of "The Life of Madame de Maintenon."

[110] Private correspondence.

[111] Private correspondence.

[112] "There is a solitude of the gods, and there is the solitude of wild beasts."