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as written at the request of Mr. Frederick Montagu, to have inscribed it on a Monument at Bellisle, at the this accomplished youth was killed, 1761; but from attending the erection of it, this design was not exe

oremost in the dangerous paths of fame, Williams fought for England's fair re

n;

ch Muse, each Grace adorn'd his frame, y dar'd to view him with a frown.

voluntary sword he drew [1],

st in blood his infant honour seal'd; ne, pleasure, science, love he flew, n'd repose when Britain took the field.

Peere Williams, bart. a Captain in Burgoyne's dra

n Williams, in the Expedition to Aix, was on board the Lord Howe; and was deputed to receive the capitu

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UNTRY CHURCH-YARD.

by Mr. Gray, "Stanzas written in a Country Church

ysis of this Poem, which has been often said to be was sketched by the late Mr. Scott, of Amwell:

the worl

Now fades the glimme

raphically describes the process of a calm evening, troduces himself wandering near a Country Churchthe sight of the place, he takes occasion, by a few mple, but important circumstances, to characterize easant; and observes, that it need not be disdained r grandeur, whose most distinguished superiorities nate in the grave. He then proceeds to intimate, t from any natural inequality of abilities, but from red advantages, as riches, knowledge, &c. that the whose place of interment he was surveying, did not most celebrated of their cotemporaries. The same however, which obstructed their course to greatness, precluded their progress in vice; and, consequently, lost in one respect was gained in the other. From he not unnaturally proceeds to remark on that unigard to the deceased, which produces, even for these rs a commemoration of their past existence. Then ention to himself, he indulges the idea of his being d in the same manner, and introduces an Epitaph oses to be employed on the occasion."

See Scott's Critical Essays, 8vo. 1785.]

And all the air a so

Save where the beetle And drowsy tinklin

Save that from yonde The moping owl d

Of such

as, wand'rin Molest her ancien

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fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, nd all the air a solemn stillness holds,

where the beetle wheels his droning flight, nd drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.

e that from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the moon complain such as, wand'ring near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.

neath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Vhere heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap, ch in his narrow cell for ever laid,

The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep.

(k) The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day.

squilla di lontano

Che paia 'l giorno pianger, che si muore.

Dante, Purgat. 1. 8.

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