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It happened one afternoon, in those years when Cowper's accomplished friend, Lady Austen, made a part of his little evening circle, that she observed him sinking into increased dejection. Its effects on the fancy of Cowper had the air of enchantment.
Murray in the spring of 1864; and in every relation of life she was as good and noble a creature as her predecessor in William Cowper's affection. Of the loving terms on which she lived with her lord, conclusive testimony is found in their published letters and her diary.
Have not Cowper's now historic hares displayed an educated and unnatural confidence; and many a gray parrot, though limited in speech, said many a witty thing?
Antimacassars and other things of horror were in the room. Also a centre table upon which might have been found Cowper's poems, the Bible, Beecher's sermons, and an illustrated book about the Holy Land by some hardworking reverend. It was Aunt Jane's living-room; in it she had rocked and knitted for more than half a century.
Some persons think the sublimest object in nature is a ship launched on the bosom of the ocean; but give me, for my private satisfaction, the Mail-Coaches that pour down Piccadilly of an evening, tear up the pavement, and devour the way before them to the Land's End! In Cowper's time, Mail-Coaches were hardly set up; but he has beautifully described the coming in of the Post-Boy:
Thrale on March 20: 'Write to me no more about dying with a grace; when you feel what I have felt in approaching eternity in fear of soon hearing the sentence of which there is no revocation, you will know the folly. Piozzi Letters, ii. 354. Of him it might have been said in Cowper's words: 'Scripture is still a trumpet to his fears. The Task: The Winter Morning Walk, 1. 611. See ante, iii. 294.
"I trust, Mr. Burton, that you have not entirely forgotten me," he said. "I had the pleasure of dining with you a short time ago at Professor Cowper's. You will doubtless remember our conversation?" Burton welcomed his visitor civilly and motioned him to a seat. He was conscious of feeling a little disturbed. Mr.
Lord Derby's version of the "Iliad" was the best before Mr. Bryant's; it is second best now, and will soon be as antiquated as Pope's, or Cowper's, or Chapman's. No English poet ever undertook and performed so great a task as this of Mr. Bryant's so late in life. It is like Homer himself singing in his old age. By W. WALLACE
But this picture is hallowed by strains which are poured forth from angelic choirs, as they tune their harps anew "over one sinner that repenteth." The likeness of Cowper's mother led him to mourn for past delights, but this picture led the son to look in humble joy to that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. Original.
Miss Fosbrook called her three times; and at last she turned round peevishly at being interrupted in the middle of the "Friar of Orders Gray," and repeated her twenty lines of Cowper's "Winter's Walk" in a doleful whine, though without a blunder. It was one of the horrible novelties that Miss Fosbrook was bringing in, that she expected people to understand their sums as well as work them.
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