It is delivered at the door by The waggoner who bears The pelting brunt of the tempestuous night, With half-shut eyes and puckered cheeks and teeth Presented bare against the storm; and whose coarseness and callousness, as he whips his team, are the consequences of the hard calling in which he ministers to the recluse's pleasure and refinement.

If town life has its evils, from the city comes all that makes retirement comfortable and civilized.

Retirement without the city-would have been bookless and have fed on acorns.
Rousseau is conscious of the necessity of some such institution as slavery, by way of basis for his beautiful life according to nature.
The celestial purity and felicity of St.Pierre's _Paul and Virginia_ are sustained by the labour of two faithful slaves.

A weak point of Cowper's philosophy, taken apart from his own saving activity as a poet, betrays itself in a somewhat similar way.
Or if the garden with its many cares All well repaid demand him, he attends The welcome call, conscious how much the hand Of lubbard labour, needs his watchful eye, Oft loitering lazily if not o'er seen; Or misapplying his unskilful strength But much performs himself, _no works indeed That ask robust tough sinews bred to toil, Servile employ_, but such as may amuse Not tire, demanding rather skill than force.
We are told in _The Task_ that there is no sin in allowing our own happiness to be enhanced by contrast with the less happy condition of others: if we are doing our best to increase the happiness of others, there is none.

Cowper, as we have said before, was doing this to the utmost of his limited capacity.
Both in the Moral Satires and in _The Task_, there are sweeping denunciations of amusements which we now justly deem innocent, and without which or something equivalent to them, the wrinkles on the brow of care could not be smoothed, nor life preserved from dulness and moroseness.