The Task

The Task

Cowper, William

London: J. Johnson, 1785. pp. 1-283

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1785

George Eliot to Maria Lewis, 18 August 1838. "But I am as usual becoming egotistical, and you by the bye have naughtily encouraged the habit. I am in danger of imitating the frog in the fable vainly imagining herself a rival for the ox, and such pride generally has a similar catastrophe to hers. You must let me tell you though that I was not at all delighted with ""the stir of the great Babel,"" and the less so probably owing to the circumstances attending my visit thither. Isaac and I went alone (that seems rather Irish) and staid only a week, every day of which we worked hard at seeing sights." GEL 1: 6. "William Cowper, The Task, IV, 87-88." GEL 1: 67f.

Cowper, William, The Task, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57494

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