...like a smug, pert counsellor, stands chattering at the bar, and with a deal of finespun enchaniing sophistry carries all before him. ' If I had strength...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' Again, in another letter, he says : / ' At this season of the year, and in this gloomy, uncomfortable...

...with such arguments as the perverted ingenuity of such a mind as his can easily furnish ! — Judgment falls asleep upon the bench, while Imagination, like...playing with her tail. You would believe, though I did hot say it at the end of every letter, that we remember you and Mrs. Newton with the same affection...

...with such arguments as the perverted ingenuity of such a mind as his can easily furnish ! — Judgment falls asleep upon the bench, while Imagination, like...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' Again, in another letter, he says : ' At this season of the year, and in this gloomy, uncomfortable...

...account of the last passage, which is full of a wild pathos that is affecting in the highest degree. " If I had strength of mind, I have not strength of...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." The following passages are exceedingly interesting : one on account of the insight it gives us into...

...you will find out my enigma, at some future time. I am not in a humour to transcribe it now. Indeed 1 wonder that a sportive thought should ever knock at...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." The following passages are exceedingly interesting : one on account of the insight it gives us into...

...as if harlequin should intrude himself into the gloomy chamber where a corpse is deposited instate. His antic gesticulations would be unseasonable at...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' — vol. i. pp. 60, 6l. We can give only one more specimen of his humour. , ' We hope that Patty has...

...laughter. But the mind, long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly iix its eyes on any thing that may make a little variety...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail.' — vol. i. pp. 60,61. We can give only one more specimen of his humour. ' We hope that Patty has been...

...mind long wearied with the sameness of a dull, dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on any thinr that may make a little variety in its contemplations, though it were but a LniMi playing with her tail." The following passages are exceedingly interesting : one on account of...

...surface." On sending Mr. Hill an enigma in July, 1780, he thus adverted to his habitual dejection : " My enigma will probably find you out, and you will...though it were but a kitten playing with her tail." From that dejection, however, nothing so effectually raised his spirits as poetry. Of this he was fully...

...with the sameness of a dull, " dreary prospect, will gladly fix its eyes on * Vol. I. pp. 128, 129. " any thing that may make a little variety " in its...though it were but " a kitten playing with her tail."* The volumes of letters which Dr. Johnson (a cousin, and faithful friend of Cowper in his last sorrows)...