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To the Rev. Walter Bagot, June 16, 1789. On his marriage; allusion to his poem on the Queen's visit
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., June 20, 1789. He expresses regret at not receiving a visit from Mr. R.; acknowledges the arrival of the cuckoo-clock; remark on Hawkins' and Boswell's Life of Johnson
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To Mrs. Throckmorton, July 18, 1789. Poetic turn of Mr. George Throckmorton; news concerning the Hall
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., July 23, 1789. Importance of improving the early years of life; anticipations of Mr. R.'s visit
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To Mrs. King, August 1, 1789. Grumbling of his correspondents on his silence; his time engrossed by Homer; he professes himself an admirer of pictures, but no connoisseur
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., August 8, 1789. Mrs. Piozzi'sTravels; remark on the author of the "Dunciad"
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To Joseph Hill, Esq., August 12, 1789. Unfavourable weather and spoiled hay; multiplicity of his engagements; Sunday school hymn
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To the Rev. John Newton, August 16, 1789. Excuse for long silence; progress of Homer
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Remarks on Cowper's observation that authors are responsible for their writings
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., Sept. 24, 1789. Coldness of the season
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To the same, Oct. 4, 1789. Description of the receipt of a hamper, in the manner of Homer
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314
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To the Rev. Walter Bagot (without date). Excuse for long silence; why winter is like a backbiter; Villoison's Homer; death of Lord Cowper
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314
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To the Rev. Walter Bagot (without date). Remarks on Villoison's Prolegomena to Homer
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314
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Note on the reveries of learned men
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To the Rev. John Newton, Dec. 1, 1789. Apology for not writing; Mrs. Unwin's state of health; reference to political events
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To Joseph Hill, Esq., Dec. 18, 1789. Political reflections
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Character of the French Revolution
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Burke on the features which distinguish the French Revolution from that of England in 1688
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Political and moral causes of the French Revolution
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Origin of the Revolution in America
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The Established Church endangered by resistance to the spirit of the age
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., Jan. 3, 1790. Excuses for silence; inquiry concerning Mr. R.'s health; laborious task of revisal
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To Mrs. King, Jan. 4, 1790. His anxiety on account of her long silence; his occupations; Mrs. Unwin's state
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To the same, Jan. 18, 1790. He contradicts a report that he intends to quit Weston; reference to his Homer
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319
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Commencement of Cowper's acquaintance with his cousin the Rev. John Johnson
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To Lady Hesketh, Jan. 22, 1790. Particulars concerning a poem of his cousin Johnson's; anticipations of the Cambridge critics respecting his Homer
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., Feb. 2, 1790. He impugns the opinion of Bentley that the last Odyssey is spurious
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To the Rev. John Newton, Feb. 5, 1790. Account of his painful apprehensions in the month of January
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To Lady Hesketh, Feb. 9, 1790. Service rendered by her to his cousin Johnson; Cowper's lines on a transcript of an Ode of Horace by Mrs. Throckmorton
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To the same, Feb. 26, 1790. He promises to send her a specimen of his Homer for the perusal of a lady; his delight at being presented by a relative with his mother's picture
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To Mrs. Bodham, Feb. 27, 1790. He expresses his delight at receiving his mother's picture from her; lines written by him on the occasion; recollections of his mother; invitation to Weston; remembrances of other maternal relatives
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To John Johnson, Esq., Feb. 28, 1790. He refers to the present of his mother's picture; he mentions his invitation of the family of the Donnes to Weston; inquires concerning Mr. J.'s poem
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To Lady Hesketh, March 8, 1790. On Mrs. ——opinion of his Homer; his sentiments on the Test Act; passage from his poems on that subject; ill health of Mrs. Unwin
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To Samuel Rose, Esq., March 11, 1790. On the state of his health: he condemns the practice of dissembling indispositions
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To Mrs. King, March 12, 1790. On her favourable opinion of his poems; his mother's picture and his poem on the receipt of it
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To Mrs. Throckmorton, March 21, 1790. He regrets her absence from Weston; Mrs. Carter's opinion of his Homer; his new wig
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To Lady Hesketh, March 22, 1790. His opinion of the style best adapted to a translation of Homer
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326
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To John Johnson, Esq., March 23, 1790. Character of the Odyssey; Cowper professes his affection for Mr. J.
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