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Charles SrivtMtws , D . D . ( From tbs Gent . Mag . ) 1826 ; April 27 , at Bath , the Rev . C . Symmons , D . D ., Rector of Narberth aed Lla oipeter VeJfiy , and Prebendary of Clyduy , Penibtoke&hire . Tiiis gentleman was the younger son of John Symmons , M . P . for the town
o [ Cardigan , which he represented in three successive Parliaments from 1746 to 1761 ; and was barn in the year 1749 . He was educated at Westminster under Dr . Smith , and distinguished himself much by his early attachment to poetry ,
being remarkable for the length and ( for a boy ) the excellence of what are there called Bible exercises , shutting himself up all Sunday to produce a long copy of verses on the Monday morning . From Westminster he was sent to the
University of Glasgow , where he contracted a great friendship with the celebrated Mr . Windhaiu , who was much attached to him , and to whose friendship he owed the living of Llampeter at a subsequent period , wheu Mr . W . was colleague in Administration with Mr . Pitt Xu the war of the French Revolution , and who would doubtless have doue more for him in
the Church , had not the public avowal of his political sentiments at Cambridge , when parties ran high , thrown difficulties in the way of that minister ' s friendly intentions . But this is to anticipate . From Glasgow lie entered at CUre Hall , Cambridge , where he took the deerete of B . D ., in
1776 , and was presented to the Rectory <> f Narberth , by the King , in 1778 . His liiat publication was in 1778 , au octavo volume of Sermons [ which came to a 2 nd edit . ] . In 1789 , he published in quarto , A Sermon for the Benefit of decayed Clergymen in the Diocese of St . David ' s ; " and in 1790 , " The Consequence of the Character of the Individual ,
< uk ! the Influence of Education in formlng iv , " a Sermon , preached in the pai " Uh church or St . Peter's , Carmarthen , i > " { Sunday , Oct . 10 , 1790 , for the benefit *> t a Sunday-school , and published at the I ' eque . st of the managers of the charity .
i ^ arly in the year 1794 , when he was about to be presented to the Rectory of llampeter by the imerest of his friend Mr . Windhain , he imprudently , and certuiiily unnecessarily , in a sermon before the University of Cambridge , broached some VVlng sentiments , which at the Present day might have been preached wuh utter impunity before all ihe Mi-
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nisters , being sentiments purely theoretic and of the old Whig school : but at that time , parties running : high , a handle was made of the circumstance by some designing persons , oue of whoin , in particular , having begged for a perusal under the solemn promise of makiag no improper use of it , was strongly suspected of having sent up garbled extracts to the Lord Chancellor aud others in
Adniinistrauon . Such extracts certainly were in their hands 9 and they occasioned Mr . W . considerable difficulty in having the presentation made out , which , however , at last his friendly perseverance accomplished , accompanied with this observation , " I could have obtained for
another a Deanery with less difficulty than I have had to get this Welch living for you . " Finding from the same cause obstacles thrown in his way in obtaining a further degree , he removed to Oxford , where , on the 24 th . of March , 1794 , he was incorporated B . D . of Jesus College , and on the 26 th , proceeded D . D .
In 1797 , he produced * ' Inez , " a dramatic poem ; and in 1800 , another , called 44 Constaatia . " la 1806 , appeared his ' * Life of Milton , " prefixed to au edition of Milton ' s Prose Works , of which he was not the editor . The Life of Mil tow , his favourite author , was written con
amore , aud though the political sentiments may be displeasing to some , yet it is generally allowed to be a very interesting piece of biography , and must be recommeuded to all by the display of character , the sincerity of profession , and the glow of sentiment discoverable
throughout—_ - inide lit ut ornnis Voiiva . pateat quasi deacripta tabella Vita viri . In 1813 , he issued an octavo volume of Poems , partly his own , but partly those of a departed daughter , Caroline ISyrnmons , a young lady uf admirable talents ,
as her Jntle poem a shew , written in all the playfulness of childhood , and poured out almost extempore when walking out , or playing , and some at a time when she could hardly write them herself , — so much in her had Nature outrun Art and
Education . Subsequently he amused his leisure hours with writiug a " Rhymed Translation of the . ^ Eneis / ' which was published in 1817 ; and only a few months before his death he composed a biographical sketch of Shakspeare ' s Life , of which lie made a present to Mr . Whittingham , his neighbour at Chiswkk
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1826, page 427, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2550/page/47/
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