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Private Correspondence of William Cowper With Several of His Most Intimate Friends, Publ. From the Originals in the Possession of [the Editor]
Private Correspondence of William Cowper With Several of His Most Intimate Friends Publ From the Originals in the Possession of - the Editor Author:John Johnson Title: Private Correspondence of William Cowper ... With Several of His Most Intimate Friends, Publ. From the Originals in the Possession of [the Editor] J. Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos o... more »r missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: TO THE REV. JOHN NEWTON. DEAR FRIEND, Sept. SO, 1786. No length of separation will ever make us indifferent either to your pleasures or your pains. We rejoice that you have had so agreeable a jaunt, and (excepting Mrs. Newton's terrible fall, from which, however, we are happy to find that she received so little injury,) a safe return. We, who live always encompassed by rural scenery, can afford to be stationary ; though we ourselves, were I not too closely engaged with Homer, should perhaps follow your example, and seek a little refreshment from variety and change of place, -- a course that we might find not only agreeable, but, after a sameness of thirteen years, perhaps useful. You must, undoubtedly, have found your excursion beneficial, who at all other times endure, if not so close a confinement aswe, yet a more unhealthy one, in city air and in the centre of continual engagements. Your letter to Mrs. Unwin, concerning our conduct and the offence taken at it in our neighbourhood, gave us both a great deal of concern; and she is still deeply affected by it. Of this you may assure yourself, that if our friends in London have been grieved, they have been misinformed; which is the more probable, because the bearers of intelligence hence to London are not always very scrupulous concerning the truth of their reports; and that if any of our serious neighbours have been astonished, they have been so without the smallest real occasion. Poor pe...« less