COWPER'S BIRTH, FAMILY, AND EDUCATION. 1731. BORN in the rectory, Berkhamstead. Not related to the Scotch Bishop Cowper Name of his family first mentioned in 1465 Her epitaph. 1737. Cowper sent to school at Market-street, Hertfordshire Cruelly treated there by one of the boys 1739. Placed in the house of an oculist on account of a disease in his eyes 1741. Sent to Westminster school. 1745. The small-pox relieves his eyes His character in boyhood misrepresented by himself His complaint that religion had been neglected in his education Page 1 ib. 2 ib. First appearance of his malady He thinks his cure supernatural 1757. Removes to the Inner Temple Page His cordial friendship for Cowper. 1762. Letter to Mr. Clotworthy Rowley, Sept. 2. They commence the Connoisseur Cowper a contributor to the Connoisseur And to the St. James's Chronicle Lloyd and Colman's Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion. GRESS OF HIS INSANITY AS RELATED BY HIMSELF. COWPER compares Pope's Homer with the original throughout 74 Translates four books of the Henriade Accuses himself of wishing that the Clerk of the Journals might die. Huntingdon. His society there. He outruns his income. His spirits sink in solitude Introduction to the Unwin family He becomes an inmate there. His manner of life thought too expensive. And of Mrs. Unwin COWPER'S REMOVAL TO OLNEY. ACCOUNT OF HIS BROTHER'S DEATH. MR. KNOX's opinion that providential designation is exem- |