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    r J | e »^ - ' " >? '/ h ¦'' ¦ ' ¦ * ; 1 »' Iitfdrmtition > concerning Lord Rochester and others . ^ SiR , % pril < Z 6 y 1812 . I have $ , copy of Burnet ' s Ac-CQttn £ K Qf Lord Rochester , pub-. Iij || ied 3 ^ n 1 ^ 8 Q , On a , blank page atj ^ e ^ nd pf tlxe book have been vg ^ n tbe following verses , oa the , < fea ] th pf ; that nobleman , by M £ , Flatman , —

    M on his death-bed , gasping Strephon Strephon * the wonder of the plains , The noblest of the Arcadian swains , Stfejftibn , tW bold , the witty and the gay ; With many a sigh , and many a tear , he n .. , satd >< . Remember me , ye shepherds , when I m ^ -dead : tt trifling glories of this world adieu , Afad " vain applause * of the age ; Vsi when we quit this earthly stage , Bcjieye me , shepherds , for I tell you true , T ^ qse . pleasures which from virtuous " "• *• ¦ "Iclecds we have

    Procure the sweetest Slumbers in the v : y « grai * efc .. ¦>! ' Then , since your fatal hour must surely " io come , » * .... tjy ^ clyyoui : heads lie low as mine , rbur bright meridian sun decline , Be&fecxh the Ttnghty Pan to ' guard you ¦?'¦ * hoiHet ¦ > ' '

    Uta S ^ ysium you would happy flie ^ ¦ ' - Ufic ( n $ t | iHc Strephon , bat like Strc-J > hon dic . ^ , . ^ Iift Jacobs 'Pdetical Register , lf « S ^ ( i ! . 56 . ) Mfh jPlatman is ' destrib ^ d as *^ a BMrri ^ teir of the Mid-^ ^ cftapte ^' l ^ dAmy ' iti ^ fi ioiis in * heb «^ W tttoidiig * mfr Poetrtfj * H 4 iip ^| tai 4 ^^ e timWUid WWSZ . He dfed 4 W ' -1 M |;^ fcgttf ^ - W ^ Walfcefi ^ ld , ih ^ is O ^ ur ^ a /^ wj o » ' ^ f 1 > as ocdisionally quoted Flatman among the verifiers to w % 16 ta the ^ poet had Wen indebted .

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    » . ¦ r ¦ . • ¦ . - i ri * « * > \ ' . ¦ ¦ s - That expression , ^ Ae migfay Pan is , I apprehend , not merely VL ,: < poefia licence ^ but an allusion to a story in Plutarch's Dialo ^ uQ on the cessation of oracles , tp

    which a Christian application ha ^ been given , but which Lardnje ^ examines , ( H . T . Works , vii . 24 ^ , ) and declares to be " . all oy . er hea . ^ theaish / ' To his instances of those who have Christianized the story , may be added George Sandys , the learned translator of Ovid- In

    his Travels , l 6 lO , passing by De / os , which he describes * ' aa UU terly forsaken , when oracles ceased , which , " he says ,, doubtkss was upon the passion of our Siayi ^

    our , " he adds : — " For Plutarefc reports from the mouth of one ^ Epithersesy who had beejv , hi * schoolmaster , that he embarking for Italy and one evening becalined before the Paxi , ( two little islands

    that lie between Corcyra and hen cadia , ) they suddenly . heard a voice from the shore , ( most of $ ie passengers being yet awake , ) calljing to one lyh& n } % is 9 ^ iApilpt , hj birth an Egyptian , who liJl the third crall would not answer . Then

    ( quoth the voice ) when thou art come to the Palodes , proclaim it aloud that ; tJic . great ifa ? M > dparfi . All in the ship that Iw ^ ard t ^ M ^ w ^ e umazed . When * drawing near tp the aforesaid plac ^ , ;

    TAfrnm $ i standing on the poop of %% k $ sjjiip , didu | t € j ^ wha , tforinerly Ci > u > - manded % forthwith tbsrG wasj ) earjd * i fffS&h lap ^ taupn , ft ^ QfP p ^ u ^ WfaAWWh ' $ & 4 v * F ? & 9 . fefffcy aT ^** coining to the knowledge Qi < Ttberius Ccesary he sent for , T / i ^ musy ^ shp avouched the fcjruth . t ^ eje ^ pf . Which declared the death of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/13/