The effect of doing good to others on any mind was sure to be good; and the sight of real suffering was likely to banish fancied ills.

Cowper in this way gained at all events a practical knowledge of the poor, and learned to do them justice, though from a rather too theological point of view.

Seclusion from the sinful world was as much a part of the system of Mr.Newton, as it was of the system of Saint Benedict.

Cowper was almost entirely cut off from intercourse with his friends and people of his own class.
He dropped his correspondence even with his beloved cousin, Lady Hesketh, and would probably have dropped his correspondence with Hill, had not Hill's assistance in money matters been indispensable.

To complete his mental isolation it appears that having sold his library he had scarcely any books.