IN   CRITICISM,    IN    DIALOGUE,    IN    BIOGRAPHY,   IN    HISTORY,

HE    WAS   THE   PUREST   WRITER   OF   HIS   AGE;

IN  THALABA,    KEHAMA,    AND   RODERICK,   THE   MOST   INVENTIVE  POET:

IN   LIGHTER   COMPOSITIONS   THE    MOST   DIVERSIFIED.
RARELY    HATH   ANY    AUTHOR   BEEN    SO    EXEMPT

FROM    THE   MALADIES   OF    EMULATION;

RARELY   ANY    STUDIOUS   MAN    SO    READY    TO  ASSIST   THE   STUDIOUS,

TO    RAISE   THEIR   REPUTATION   AND   TO   PROMOTE   THEIR   FORTUNES.
WONDER    NOT  THEN,    O   STRANGER,   THAT   OUR   FELLOW-CITIZEN

HATH    LEFT   AMONG   US  THE    RESOLUTION   TO   COMMEMORATE,

AND,    UNDER   THE   SAME   GOOD    PROVIDENCE   WHICH    GUIDED   HIM,

THE   EARNEST    WISH    TO   IMITATE   HIS   VIRTUES.
