Cowper

Cowper may refer to:

  • Cowper (surname), people with the surname
  • Cowper Phipps Coles (1819-1870), English naval captain and inventor
  • Earl Cowper, an extinct title in the Peerage of Great Britain
  • Cowper, New South Wales, a town in New South Wales, Australia
  • Division of Cowper, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
  • Cowper County, New South Wales
  • Cowper House, Chester, England
  • Cowper stove, a regenerative heat exchanger

Famous quotes containing the word cowper:

    “Oh! for a closer walk with God,
    A calm and heav’nly frame;
    A light to shine upon the road
    That leads me to the Lamb!”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
    To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
    To teach our faint desires to rise,
    And bring all heav’n before our eyes.”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)

    “O, popular applause! what heart of man
    Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?”
    —William Cowper (1731–1800)