Oh! what discoveries Make thy enlighten'd eyes! Thou now those riddles art able to explain, Which thou and I have found too hard for mortal man. Thou now canst understand, how God Created heaven and earth, and all things with a nod. IV. Thou now canst understand How all events are rul'd by the Almighty hand. To fathom deep Eternity. For Reason's plummet, and the line of Wit; V. Thou shalt no more Be lost upon the boisterous seas Common to all below: Thou 'rt safely landed on the shore Thy friends wade through a vale of misery. (The Gods have seal'd for good) Brought safe to shore by some propitious star, VI. But art thou for ever gone? Must thy dear flesh be eaten by the worm? And must thy head, With arts and learning so well furnished, No distinction have, But moulder in the grave, Together with the vile and ignominious slave? Shall we no more dispute? Shall we no more the subtle Locke confute? Shall I no more partake of thy philosophy? Yes, Yes, we shall meet again, my friend, Where our joys shall know no end, Where Death shall have no power to separate. LANCELOT NEWTON, B. A. On the Death of my pious Friend and Schoolfellow, With honest tears to praise the virtuous dead, His fame, his worth, his honour, know no grave. The mourning spreads through all the echoing hills, Finish'd in virtue, though a youth in years; Ah! no, my friend, a thousand ties invite, Till the duli morn "drave on tn' unwilling light," Ah! hapless youth! by what mistake of fate, } And Nature shew'd us what thou might'st have been; But, ah! we think amiss, and wrong his fame: Smiles at our sorrows, and forgives our love. What is the world, The seat of danger, error, and mistake, He He reach'd the goal, ere others had begun, Hail! happy youth! discharg'd from flesh and blood, LAWRENCE JACKSON, A. B. There was a monument erected for him in the chancel of Allhallows, near the place of his burial, with the following inscription, made by Mr. Jackson, the author of the foregoing verses: Respice paululùm, si sincera fides, si candida veritas, Recepit pia Sancti Johannis ædes, Ejusdem adis alumnus, fratrem charissimum.ut pietate, ita et morte quàm proximè secutus est. Ob. enim 14 Mar. ejusdem anni [1714-15], ætat. suæ 18." * See vol. I. p. 418. "This small addition was made to the inscription on the death of his brother, who died of the small-pox, and was buried close by him; by whose death the preceding account of the life of Ambrose lost much of its perfection. But, such as it is, it may No. VI. DR. WILLIAM RICHARDSON. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, son of Samuel Richardson, B. D. youngest son of Mr. John Richardson*. was born at Wilshamsted in Bedfordshire, where his father was vicar, July 23, 1698. He was educated at Oakham and Westminster schools, and at Emanuel college, Cambridge; B. A. there 1719; M.A. 1723. In 1726 he published, from Mr. Bowyer's press, the "Prælectiones Ecclesiastica" of his learned uncle John Richardson, B. D. well known by his masterly " Vindication of the Canon of the New Testament," against the artifices of Mr. J. Toland, in his Amyntor. In 1730 he published four Sermons on the necessity of Revelation; and in 1733 an occasional Sermon preached at the consecration of the new parochial church of St. John, Southwark, being at that time lecturer of the parish church of St. Olave. There he married, in 1728, Anne, only daughter and heir of Mr. William Howe, of an antient family in the county-palatine of Chester, and Elizabeth his wife, only daughter and heir of Mr. Humphrey Smith, of Walton-upon-Thames, Surrey. Having undertaken, at the request of the Bishops Gibson and Potter, to publish a new edition of "Godwin de Præsulibus," he returned to Cam may be depended upon as faithful, having been chiefly made up out of his letters which his father had preserved, and those other private papers which were never designed to see the light, but by his sudden death had the good fortune to outlive him. * See Calamy, vol. II. p. 451. W. BOWYER." |