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AD REGINAM.

ACCIPE communis solatia publica luctus,
ANNA, nec alloquiis dulcibus obde fores.
Namque ut Martburii percussit nuntius aures,
Dum tibi per Flandras fulminat ense plagas,
Oppetiisse tuæ, REGINA, animæque torique

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Participem, ac morbo succubuisse gravi:

Non," ait," ardentem lacrymis restinguere curam
Nunc opus, aut querulis perdere verba modis.
Pro lacrymis refluant hostili sanguine rivi :
Pro questu reboënt tympana mixta tubis.”
Dixit: et attoniti dirá formidine Galli

Bruxellis trepida terga dedêre fugæ ;
Objectoque alii tentantes fulmine Martem
De Scaldi in Stygias præcipitantur aquas.

ALLOCUTIO AD SEPULCRUM.

DELUBRA Regnum, prisca Manium domus,
Suprema Britonum Principum palatia,

Horrore dio plena, plena numine;

Laxate claustra, ferreosque liminis

Reserate postes: GEORGII Magni sacer
Portatur ad vos lugubri pompá cinis,

Uxoris ANNE atque ANGLIÆ lacrymis madens.

Eheu! quis hostis Gallus, aut quis impia

Romæ tyrannus coccinatus, non tuo

Dolore doleat, ANNA, non flenti affleat?

Huic ô quietas intimis penetralibus
Parate sedes; quà (nefas) tot liberûm
Jacent acerbo rapta fato corpora:
Præsertim ubi usque vere perpetuo virens
Cari GLOVERNI floret urna.
Hic pænè redeat vivus ossibus calor,

Hic ponite;

Sensuque tacito pulvis ipse gaudeat.

AD

POTTER*, of the learned BINGHAM †, and the

AD NOBILISSIMUM CAROLUM HALIFAXIE

BARONEM.

CAROLE, si tibi adhuc Collegi cura vetusti,

Quod tamen assiduè nascitur usque novum ;
Si placuit nostro nitidus jam pumice Flaccus,
Quodque sibi vates dixerat, usque recens ;
Gratia si veteris tibi pectore vivit amici-
Unam fer multis officiosus opem.

Sume, precor, citharam nimiùm nimiùmque tacentem,
Verbaque cum plectro fortia junge gravi:
Effer, age, Heroëm, stellantique insere Olympo;
Dirceusque iterum nubila tranet olor.

Nos etenim viles, corvi picæque, poëtæ

Vix pennas madidá (turpe) levamus humo.

RI. BENTLEY, S. T. P. Coll. Sanct. Trin. Magister.

* Dr. John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1749, was son of Mr. Thomas Potter, a linen-draper at

Wakefield.

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+ Mr. John Bingham, usually called the learned Bingham,' the admired author of Origines Ecclesiasticæ,' was born at Wakefield in 1668, and educated at the Grammar-School in that place. Notwithstanding his vast erudition, he did not obtain any considerable preferment in the Church. This is intimated in the inscription designed for his Monument.

VE SECULO MERITORUM IMMEMORI

ET INGRATO!

CÙM QUI PATRIARCHATUM IN ECCLESIA

MERUIT,

NON NISI HEADBOURN-WORTHY ET AVANTI IN AGRO HANTON.

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munificent RADCLIFFE *. He was elected April 8, 1751; the Governors of the school allowing him a yearly income of one hundred and twenty pounds, and subjecting him to the payment of his ushers out of his own purse. Here he found the number of his scholars much increased; nor did he remit the most unwearied attention to his duty.

An endeavour to embalm the memory of a deserving man by a plain and artless delineation of his character will, I trust, never be thought unseasonable. It is not my intention to attempt a portrait of him from an abstracted idea of uncommon excellences. I am eager to speak the language of truth-to describe him as he really was, without partiality or predilection.

With respect to his literary attainments, he was equal to most of his contemporaries. His knowledge was not merely confined to those books, which are usually introduced into our schools. He thoroughly understood the poets, the orators, the historians, the philosophers, and the critics of

* John Radcliffe, M. D. the founder of the Radcliffe Library at Oxford, was born at Wakefield in 1650. In his answer to a letter written by the noted Obadiah Walker, who endeavoured to withdraw him from the Church of England, he thus expresses himself: "Having been born a Protestant at Wakefield, and sent from thence in that persuasion to Oxford, where during my continuance I had no relish for absurdities, I intend not to change my principles and turn Papist in London."

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Greece and Rome. He had explored their writings with accuracy and precision. His philological and grammatical acquirements were the result of painful and rigid researches. The appellation of Little Aristophanes *,' for he was small of stature, was given to him from the encomium with which Dr. Bentley honoured him, after a severe examination of his proficiency in the works of that poet. The writer of this Memoir recollects with pleasure the happy flow of expression, with which he interpreted the select Comedies of the Athenian Dramatist. When the divine Odes of Pindar were before him, he seemed to be full of the enthusiastic fervor, which inflamed the Theban Bard. With Demosthenes he was all energy and vehemence. He sweetly moralised with Plato, as if walking along the flowery banks of Ilissus. With Isocrates he conversed, mild and gentle as the dew on the tender grass. With Longinus he assumed the dignity of an en

* Previously to the admission of Mr. Clarke at Trinity College, a page of the Greek Text, with the Scholia, was placed before him. He explained the whole with the utmost perspicuity, elegance, and ease. Dr. Bentley immediately presented him with a valuable edition of the Comedies of Aristophanes ; telling him, at the same time, in language peculiar to himself, that no scholar in Europe understood them better, one person only excepted.'

lightened master of criticism, breathing the very spirit of sublimity.

Among the writers of modern Latinity, he preferred Vida in poetry, and Erasmus in prose. In the Poems of the Bishop of Alba he discovered the original genius of Maro: in the works of Erasmus, whom we may truly denominate the Morning Star of Learning,' he saw and admired the native beauties of the Roman Orator.

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It was one of his employments, to begin the mornings of the three first days in each week with explaining to his scholars a select portion in the Version of the LXXII, and another in the Greek New Testament. Hence they became familiarised, in their more tender years, to the language of the sacred penmen. Many of them, intended for the Church, in conformity to his advice continued to dedicate a brief portion of every day to the careful perusal of the Scriptures, and the regular use of an interleaved Bible for the insertion of incidental remarks and illustrations. If this plan of study were universally adopted in our public schools, might it not enable the candidates for orders to acquit themselves with superior credit*? But I have digressed from my subject.

* A most useful work, calculated to promote the religious instruction of youth, has been lately republished by the Bishop of Chester, and dedicated by his Lordship to the Schoolmasters

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