William Cowper
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Cowper
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Poet whose line is quoted in reference to Lord Shaftesbury's aristocratic piety.
To him we may apply Cowper’s well-known line which eulogises or satirises a peer who lent dignity to the early evangelical revival as—
Cowper, the friend and disciple of John Newton, inveighed against the Bastille, that “house of bondage,” with its horrid “towers,” its “dungeons,” and “cages of despair,” with an indignation which would have become a disciple of Rousseau.