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

by William Cowper

[445] The Picts were not our ancestors.

[446] Private correspondence.

[447] The credit of having introduced this regulation is due to the late much respected Sir William Dolben, Bart.

[448] Lord Thurlow, it will be remembered, pledged himself to make some provision for Cowper, if he became Lord Chancellor.

[449] We have elsewhere observed that they never were printed as ballads, but were inserted in his works.

[450] The Miss Gunnings, the daughters of Sir Robert Gunning, Bart.

[451] Private correspondence.

[452] A book full of blunders and scandal, and destitute both of information and interest.

[453] The celebrated seat of Lord Orford, near Richmond, where Lady Hesketh was then visiting.

[454] The well-known translator of Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History.