To produce melody and variety, he, like Milton, avails himself fully of all the resources of a composite language.

Blank verse confined to short Anglo-Saxon words is apt to strike the ear, not like the swell of an organ, but like the tinkle of a musical-box.
_The Task_ made Cowper famous.

He was told that he had sixty readers at the Hague alone.

The interest of his relations and friends in him revived, and those of whom he had heard nothing for many years emulously renewed their connexion.

Colman and Thurlow reopened their correspondence with him, Colman writing to him "like a brother." Disciples, young Mr.Rose, for instance, came to sit at his feet.
Complimentary letters were sent to him, and poems submitted to his judgment.