The Collected Works. William Cowper
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TRANSLATIONS FROM VIRGIL, OVID, HORACE, AND HOMER.
OVID, TRIST. BOOK V. ELEG. XII.
A REFLECTION ON THE FOREGOING ODE.
THE FIFTH SATIRE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.
THE NINTH SATIRE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.
TRANSLATION OF AN EPIGRAM FROM HOMER. [922]
MONTES GLACIALES, IN OCEANO GERMANICO NATANTES.
ON THE ICE ISLANDS SEEN FLOATING IN THE GERMAN OCEAN.
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION TO WILLIAM NORTHCOT.
ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.
IN SUBMERSIONEM NAVIGII, CUI GEORGIUS REGALE NOMEN INDITUM.
IN BREVITATEM VITÆ SPATII HOMINIBUS CONCESSI.
ON THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE.
TRANSLATION OF PRIOR'S CHLOE AND EUPHELIA.
VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF DR. LLOYD.
PREFACE.
In presenting to the public this new and complete edition of the Life, Correspondence, and Poems of Cowper, it may be proper for me to state the grounds on which it claims to be the only complete edition that has been, or can be published.
After the decease of this justly admired author, Hayley received from my lamented brother-in-law, Dr. Johnson, (so endeared by his exemplary attention to his afflicted relative,) every facility for his intended biography. Aided also by valuable contributions from other quarters, he was thus furnished with rich materials for the execution of his interesting work. The reception with