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The earliest English Umbrellas, we must also remember, were made of oiled silk, very clumsy and difficult to open when wet; the stick and furniture were heavy and inconvenient, and the article very expensive. At the end of the century allusions to the Umbrella are not infrequent. Cowper, in his "Task" , twice mentions it, but seems to mean a Parasol:
The man who had thrown me the rope a passenger, a certain Major Cowper, going home with his wife and child had walked away proudly, without deigning as much as to look at me twice, as if to see a man clamber on board a ship ten miles from the land was the most usual occurrence.
Samuel Johnson bowled into view, scolding and challenging the Ensconced Smug; Goldsmith scaled the Richardson ghetto and wrote his touching and deathless verse; Fielding's saffron comedies were produced at Drury Lane; Cowper, nearly the same age as the artist, did his work and lapsed into imbecility, surviving him sixteen years; Richardson became the happy father of the English Novel; Sterne took his Sentimental Journey; Chatterton, the meteor, flashed across the literary sky; Gray mused in the churchyard and laid his head upon the lap of earth; Burns was promoted from the Excise to be the idol of all Scotland.
But letter-writing might without great impropriety be so classed: and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Nature intended Cowper for a letter-writer. Whether he writes "The passages and events of the day as well as of the night are little better than dreams" or "An almost general cessation of egg-laying among the hens has made it impossible for Mrs.
The case against Spencer was laid before Chief Justice Holt, who at first dismissed the accusation as absurd, but was afterwards induced to commit the suspected man for trial; and in the July of 1699 the charge actually came before a jury at the Hertford Assizes. Four prisoners Spencer Cowper, two attorneys, and a law-writer were placed in the dock on the charge of murdering Sarah Stout.
Sheridan. Texts: Speeches, 5 vols. Gray. Criticism: Essays, by Lowell, in Latest Literary Essays; by M. Arnold, in Essays in Criticism; by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by A. Dobson, in Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Goldsmith. See also Selections for Reading, above. Criticism: Essays, by Macaulay; by Thackeray; by De Quincey; by A. Dobson, in Miscellanies. Cowper.
Instrumental forbidden Quakers cannot learn it on the motives of the world it is not conducive to the improvement of the moral character affords no solid ground of comfort nor of true elevation of mind a sensual gratification remarks of Cowper and, if encouraged, would interfere with the duty recommended by the Quakers, of frequent religious retirement.
"You must not ask our young friend too many questions," the professor interrupted, a trifle impatiently. "Tell me, Mr. Burton, has there been any change er in your condition?" Burton shivered for a moment. "None at present," he admitted. "It is scarcely due as yet." Mr. Cowper drew his chair a little nearer. His face betokened the liveliest interest.
Ev'n in the spring and playtime of the year, That calls th' unwonted villager abroad, With all her little ones, a sportive train, To gather king-cups in the yellow mead, And prink their heads with daisies. Cowper.
It is readily granted that there was a certain amount of awe mingled with the love which Cowper bore to Newton, but Newton was the very last man in the world to abuse the gentle poet's confidence.
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