"Smooth, ductile, and even, [the poet's] fancy must flow, / Must tinkle and glitter like gold to the sight / And catch in its progress a sensible glow."
The Flatting-Mill. An Illustration
See <u>The Works of William Cowper</u> (London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1835-1837), 8:26-7.<br>
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See also Thomas Wright, <u> The Life of William Cowper</u> (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892), 274.