Nor is there any querulousness, except that of religious despondency.

From those weaknesses Cowper was free.

Of his proneness to self-revelation we have had a specimen already.
The minor antiquities of the generations immediately preceding ours are becoming rare, as compared with those of remote ages, because nobody thinks it worth while to preserve them.

It is almost as easy to get a personal memento of Priam or Nimrod as it is to get a harpsichord, a spinning-wheel, a tinder-box, or a scratch-back.

An Egyptian wig is attainable, a wig of the Georgian era is hardly so, much less a tie of the Regency.