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ty years after tUe poet's death , in extreme penury , if not in absolute want . ( S ^ e Biog . Brit * 2 d ed . iii . 91 / 0 While . Butler , needy wretch , was yet alive No gGBGtous patron would a dinner give : See him , when starvM to death , and turned to dust , Presented with a monumental Bust . Thev Poet ;* s fate is here , ii * emblem , , shown , , ' He ask ' d for tread and he . receiy'd a % l stone . I am tempted to add , from
i ^ eir ^ ory , an Epitaph . on an Infant ^ by Samuel Wesley , in which the poet , appears to hg , ve prevailed oyejr the pr iest ^ and done violence to the article of , his church , of original or , birt \ xstnm
Beneath , a sleeping infant lies , To ea £ fh , wl ? pse ashes . lent Mprc , glorious shall , hereafter , rite * Tnoughnot more innocent . [* . u : . When the archangel ' s trump shall blow , And , souls and bodies join , "WJiat crowds shall wish their lives be * low , Had been as short as thine . SELECTOR
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Parish Priests of Iceland . SiH ^ March ^ 1812 . I Mve . jktely ^ p erused with great pleasixrertbe i 4 Travels in Icjeland /' performed during the summer of 1 f kQ * by \ Sii \ Gp . Mackenzie , ^ n 4 his companion ^ and ^ coadj utors ,
Dr . HolMad ; and Mr . PBright . Vti&b < Ufi diiae « tiB 4 ion $ of the former oCtliesfc , on tne . Wstory aud literatur tlof the - natives , and on their present 3 t ^ te ii ) respect of literature be ^
ai > 4 r ? HgiQn ^ : I mxe particu * la ^ lyb ioterefttcd ,, HPbiay exhibit th ^ siuguJar phenomenonot& p ^ p 1 ^ 9 C 4 w ^ ose h abi tations bespeak a ^ conditipn little xemoved ¦ from
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the savage state ; who suffer am almost entire privation of every comfort or refinement of life ; and who , amid the storms of the surrounding sea , seek , in their little boats , the provision on which alone their families can scarcely depend : among whom however , the traveller often finds an intimate knowledge
of the classical Writings of antiquity , a taste formed upon the purest models of Greece and Rome , arid a susceptibility to aU the beauties whidbthosemodels disclose . While traversing the country , he is often attended by guides , who can com *
mumcate wrth mm in Latin ; and , arriving at his place of nightly rest , he not unfrequently draw * forth , from the labours of Bis little smithy , a man who addresses him in ' that language with fluency and elegance
/'—Among the causes of this gen-. T , eral diffusion of literature , ( next to the great name of th ^ ir anb e s ^ .. „ tors ) Dr ; H . assigns " the Jo n ^ period of Ndisure th ^ y enjoy , during the protracted winter of tfyeir ^ northern : region . ^ "THis leisuVje ^ those who have acquired in tneii ; '
youth the habits of literary pursuit , will naturally devote to a conti * nuance in occupations so well adapted to reliev ^ i $ & weariness pf the passing time «* - ~ " Among the class 6 f priest ^ , another inotiyeis ^ the desirfc of majhtainirig an influ * encfe , " Which canitot be derived
from "WWy . diiflSirence of e ^ t ^ r ^ lj ; circumst ^ ncedi * £ && pastor mu ^ t r % > undereo iht . s ^ nie labours and hardships as this meanest of h ; f flock ; anc | , hut for | he suDe ^ rit ^ of his lntelleptual kttsrtn rr |^^ , h $ N would lose the station in sqclety which it 19 so necessary lie should retain . It forms , too , an important part of his duty to » uperin-
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^ 5 S Harisk &i * iesf& of Iceland .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 158, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/22/
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