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charms of rational society and moderate enjoy ment, yet ready to retire from this scene o things, if not without anxiety and apprehension, yet grateful, satisfied, and uncomplaining. Such was the philosophy which guided the latter and the better days of Horace, which he pressed upon his contemporaries with the most insinuating address, and which has entitled him to be considered, among the bards of antiquity, as beyond all others the poet of reason, and the inculcator of practical morality.

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NOONTIDE LEISURE.

onal society and moderate enjoydy to retire from this scene of without anxiety and apprehension, atisfied, and uncomplaining. Such ophy which guided the latter and of Horace, which he pressed upon Faries with the most insinuating hich has entitled him to be conthe bards of antiquity, as beyond oet of reason, and the inculcator rality.

robably, be thought entirely out he close of a paper whose chief ■ to point out a frequent apideration of, the frail tenure of ming a valuable and instructive positions of the most popular I should venture to subjoin friendship has suggested to I had known for more than ry, and known only to esteem een placed by the sorrowing

Are deposited the remains Of the Rev. John Plampin, M. A Of Chadacre Hall, in this Parish Rector of Whatfield and Stanstead, in t of Suffolk,

A Magistrate for the district in which h And formerly Fellow and Tutor of Jesu

Cambridge.

He died May the 30th, 1823, in the 69t his age.

If taste, if learning, if the love of art,
What schools can give, or foreign realms
May claim a tribute from the polished fe
Here might it flow, as not unjustly due;
But in the fane to pure devotion given,
Can these light graces point the path to I
Then be it added, as in truth it can,
Here sleeps, what all should prize, an hor
Who taught unerring, to his faithful flock
Christ as their hope, their living stay, an
Who lov'd through life, whate'er the vale
His Kind, his King, his Country, and his

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No. XI.

stant far from Wyeburne" tower e minstrel's lowly bower: hut; but there was seen garden hedged with green, ful hearth, and lattice clean. SIR WALTER SCOTT.

aad ever been, especially when in early riser; and he now awoke, of calm and refreshing sleep, to of one of the brightest mornings for the sun had just become an amber, and began to play upon of the arras which surrounded ancy that almost dazzled his erefore, a rapid survey of the to him from his window, and uty, served but to quicken his eedily amidst it, he hastened ng, however, a few minutes gh the hall, to admire its

very striking and truly venerable as grotesquely carved roof, its antique r lery, its stained windows rich in tra its curiously sculptured deer.

Only a very few of the servants we up; and Peter, the old grey-headed gr was preparing to go to his stables, ve tunely entered the hall, just in time to great door which opened into the por of time and labour, and which requir prompt execution, a previous acquaint its mechanism and springs. He se lighted by the sight of Shakspeare, a so many respectful enquiries after his fa more particularly after the poet's lit daughter, Elizabeth Hall, that our b not recollect the epithet, however which he had bestowed on him the night, without some degree of com He shook him, therefore, cordially by told him he was right glad to see h hale and cheerily; and then, after sly that he would thank him not to fill J with any more ghost or goblin stories forward into the park, leaving Pete

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