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Cowper suffered all his life from depression and even from the occasional bout of madness.
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Although such men as Benjamin Franklin greatly admired Cowper's poetry, after he died his renown quickly faded.
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On Monday, this indecision cost the job of the most senior British diplomat in charge of Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles.
BBC: McChrystal row reflects Washington nerves
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To Cowper, a letter was a kind of serendipitous conversation, like a casual walk, an unpremeditated thing which only stopped when the appointed end had been reached.
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Cowper had a long and unhappy relationship with organised religion.
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Cowper died at the very beginning of the 19th century.
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Cowper could write on anything, and generally did.
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"George Nassau, Third Earl Cowper" (1772-3) is another of the artist's masterpieces a bold formal portrait of a standing figure holding his hat above his head in a gesture that might be awkward, but somehow isn't.
WSJ: Johan Zoffany | Yale Center for British Art | On the Strenth of His Portraits | By Tom L. Freudenheim
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Sue Staunton, business adviser at James Cowper accountants in Oxford, estimates the cost of the flooding in Oxfordshire alone could run in to "tens of millions of pounds", based on the experience of the 2007 floods.
BBC: Oxford floods: Clean-up as water recedes