OR, COLLOQUIES ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF SOCIETY. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. LL.D. BONORARY MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY, OF THE BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY SOCIETY, OF THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTION, OF THE PHILOMATHIC RESPICE, ASPICE, PROSPICE.-St. Bernard. WITH PLATES. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE-STREET. MDCCCXXIX. Ἢ ζητῶ ἀνθρώποις ἀρέσκειν ;—GALATIANS, I. 10. Ωστε ἐχθρὸς ὑμῶν γέγονα ἀληθεύων ὑμῖν ;-GALATIANS, IV. 16. LONDON: PRINTED BY C. ROWORTH, BELL YARD, TEMPLE BAR. FORMERLY STUDENT OF CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD: SUCCESSIVELY NOT upon marble or sepulchral brass Such tribute, were I rich in this world's wealth, Its deep and inmost sense. But what I can Before thy birth by Holbein's happy hand Prefigured thus. It is the portraiture Of More the mild, the learned and the good; Nor yet decay hath touch'd our mortal frame. Thine eye serene, significant and strong, Or flash of active fancy, and that mirth The fleshly mould, than when she stampt on thine Her best credentials, and bestowed on thee |