C.

Caisse d'Escomptes, its failure, i. 269.
Card-table, Cowper's, i. 349.
Carpentry, proficiency in, ii. 163.

Cat eaten by a soldier, i. 107.
Catlett, Miss, i. 110.

Chambers, sale of, i. 150, 182.

Charity, a poem, i. 114.

Chatham, Lord, opinion of his monument by Bacon,
i. 272.

CHRIST JESUS, faith in, the only means of salvation, i. 24,
25.-Marriage of the Church with, 26.

Classical literature, juvenile predilection for, i. 80.
Clouds, admiration of, ii. 221.

Cocoa-nuts, bad, lines on, i. 132.

Coffee-house scene, i. 232.

Cogshall, Dr. of New York, correspondence with, ii. 325.
Cold, unseasonable, in 1784, i. 330.

Collins, the poet, an exception to the general depravity of

poets, i. 316.

Colman, Mr. i. 4.—ii. 1.

Congreve's political poetry, i. 191.

Connexions, not evangelical, ii. 69, 81.

Constitution (human) much altered since the times of the

Picts, ii. 141.

Consumption, cure of, by emetics, i. 264.

Content, expressions of, ii. 288, 321.

Conversation, a poem, i. 117.-Design of, 121.

Conversion of Dr. Johnson, i. 323.-Doubtful, of—, 344.

Copeman, Mr. lines addressed to, ii. 319.

Cowper, Ashley, Esq. i. 16, 30, 52.-His death, ii. 153.
Mrs. her loss, ii. 102.

Cowper, General, ii. 56.

William, residence at Huntingdon, i. 1.-Horse-
manship, 7.-Removes to Mr. Unwin's, 8.- Declines
reading lectures at Lyon's Inn, 9.--Commences gar-
dener, 18.--Juvenile predilection for the Classics, 80.--
A Whig in politics, 312.-His impaired constitution,
352.-His marine excursions, ii. 21.-Commences the
translation of Homer, 46.--Removes to Weston Under-
wood, 85.-Sketch of his history in a letter to Mrs.
King, 118.-His recreations, carpentry, drawing, gar-
dening, 163.-Engages in a new edition of Milton,
270. His portrait painted by Abbot, 294.-Visits Mr.
Hayley at Eartham, 297.-State of his mind, i. 46, 60,
68, 100, 129, 237, 268, 308, 314—ii. 101, 128, 201, 298,
811, 315, 318, 329.-His hopes and fears respecting his
final deliverance, i. 66, 81, 212, 265, 267, 307, 364,
370.-ii. 31, 50, 66, 78, 97.

Cox, Samuel C. Esq. anecdote of, i. 42.
Cumberland, Richard, ii. 173.

Cunningham, Miss, her illness, ii. 20.-Her death, 29,—
Reflections thereon, 37.

D.

Dartmouth, Lord, i. 34, 327, 376.-ii. 1, 157.

Death, the most formidable or most comfortable thing on
this side of eternity, i. 23, 25.-Sudden, of Mr. Ash-
burner, 363.—Of those who die in the Lord, ii. 93.—Of
friends, consolations on, 194.-Dread of, 237,

Delay often occasioned by abundance of time, i. 116,
De Coetlegon, Mr. i. 289.

De Grey, Mr. i. 63.

Despenser, Lord le, legacy left him by Paul Whitehead;

-Obsequies of the latter;-His apparition, i. 168.

Doves, the, note on the poem of, i. 56.
Drawings, Cowper's proficiency in, ii. 164.

E.

Eartham, visit to, ii. 295, 297.

Earthquake, prediction of a destructive, i. 355.

East India Bill, sentiments on the, i. 296.

Election, general, 1767, i. 19.

Enigma, i. 104.-Solved, 106.

Evangelical light granted to Cowper, (and afterwards
withdrawn,) i. 81.-Likely to abound in America, 252,

265.

Expostulation, poem of, i. 91.

F.

F.

Tom, misadventure of, i. 54.

Fashions, on the changes of, i. 120.

Female fortitude, ii. 270, 278.

Fire at Olney described, i. 274.-at Hitchin, 277.—

Threatening letters, 278.-Fire at Bedford, 278.

Flatting mill, i. 199.

Flaxman (the Sculptor), engravings by, ii. 332.
Flying, on the art of, i. 281. See Balloons.
Forgetfulness, i. 261.

Forgiveness of God, large and absolute, i. 374.

France, treachery of, in the American war, i. 238.

French Revolution, opinions and hopes respecting, ii. 304.
mimicry of Roman and Spartan virtue, ii. 323.
Friendship, i. 28.

-, poem of, i. 190.

G.

Gardening, progress in, i. 18, 44, 45, 84, 94-ii. 165.
Genius, assumed privileges of, i. 155.

Gratitude, i. 28, 36, 149.

Gray, (the Poet,) opinion of, i. 31.

Greatheed, the Rev. Mr. character of, i. 369.
ii. 169.

Greenhouse, Cowper's, i. 122, 136, 219.

H.

Halybutt, lines to the immortal memory of a, i. 321.
Handel, the musical commemoration of, remarks on its
impiety, i. 325.-Mr. Newton's work on, 331.-ii. 4, 6.
Hardness of heart, national, i. 193.

Hayley, Wm. Esq. visit to, at Eartham, ii. 295, 297,
307. His sincerity, 300.- His character, 307.

Heart, device of one pierced with thorns, yet wreathed
with roses, i. 260.-A nest of serpents, ii. 11.

Hesketh, Sir Thomas, Cowper remembered in his will, i. 37.
Lady, ii. 49, 64.-Arrives at Olney, 73.—Her
kindness, 78.

Highlanders at Olney, i. 255.-State of religion amongst
them, 258. Their mutiny, ib.

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Hill, Joseph, Esq., his excursion to Flanders, i. 5.
Recovery from a dangerous illness, 23, 25.-His mar-
riage, 26. Cowper's obligations to, 28, 29, 36.-Pre-
ferment, 39.-Increased business, 50.-Recreation, 62.
-His avaricious landlady, 172. - On Cowper's Poeti-
cal Epistle to, ii. 27.-Attacked by the gout, 122.
Hockey, the game of, practised at Olney, ii. 41.
Holland, meanness of her conduct in the American War,
i. 239.

Homer, translation of, commenced, ii. 46.-On Pope's
translation, 47, 53. -- Providentially begun, 94.-Criti
cisms on, 208.--Morality of, 260.-Second edition of
the translation, 261.-Did not foresee that his Poems
would interrupt the correspondence of Mr. Cowper and
Mr. Newton, 198.

Hope, a Poem, i. 114.

Horsemanship, Cowper's, i. 7.

Housekeeping, difficulties of, i. 1.
Huntingdon, account of, i. 2.

Hymn, inability to write, ii. 133.-For the children of
the Olney Sunday School, 196.

I.

Idleness, pleasures of, i. 234, 248.

Idle acquaintances, their tiresome visits, ii. 44.
Imitation, difficulty of avoiding it in poetry, i. 170.
Ingenuity, instance of useless, i. 342.

Ireland, concessions to, proposed petition against, i. 355.
John Gilpin, the popularity of, flattering yet humiliating,
i. 360.-Possible utility of, 361.-Reasons for printing,

ii. 11.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, his criticism on Dr. Watts, i. 143,

152.- On Blackmore, 144.-Circumspection towards,
152. - Remarks on his Lives of the Poets, 317.— His
conversion, 323.- Epitaph on, 338. Publication of
his Diary, ii. 15.

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Mr. his suggestions on Cowper's Manuscript
Poems, i. 112, 135.-Differences occasioned by his stric-
tures, 367.

the Rev. John, congratulations on preferment,
ii. 330.

Jones, Mr. burnt in effigy, ii. 33.-Leaves Lord P-
on amicable terms, 42.

K.

Killingworth, Mr. his ingenuity, i. 342.
King, Mrs. imaginary portrait of, ii. 151.
Knox's Essays, opinion of, i. 333.

L.

Latin Grammars, opinion of, i. 328.