part of his conduct, in verses like the following, in his Conference, and which evidently came from his heart : Look back! a thought which borders on despair, Bids late remorse awake at reason's call; Churchill's genius was evidently above mediocrity; and hence when The Rosciad appeared, he was hailed as a second Dryden. The 'fatal facility' of his verse, and his unscrupulous satire of living individuals and passing events, had the effect of making all London 'ring from side to side' with his applause, at a time when the real poetry of the age could hardly obtain either publishers or readers. The moral lesson which his life and career teach is unmistakable. With his clerical profession he had renounced his bel of in Christianity itself; and though he made his will only the day before his death, there is in it not the slightest expression of religious faith or hope. W close this gloomy sketch with the following sprightly passage from the Pphecy of Famine : Two boys whose birth, beyond all question, springs Jockey, whose manly high cheek bones to crown, Sawney as long without remorse could bawl JOHN LANGHORNE, an amiable and excellent clergyman, presents a striking contrast with the two poets last noticed. He was, like Churchill, the son of a clergyman, and was born at Kirkby Steven, in Westmoreland, in 1735. Having entered into orders, he obtained the curacy and lectureship of St. John's, Clerkenwell, in London, and afterwards a prebendary in Wells Cathedral. As a minister of the gospel, Langhorne was beloved, and even revered by all who intimately knew him; and as a preacher he was greatly admired. After a brief but useful career, he died at the early age of fortyfive, on the first day of April, 1779. The poetical works of Dr. Langhorne were chiefly slight effusions, dictated by the passion or impulse of the moment. His ballad, Owen of Carron, founded on the old Scottish tale of Gil Morrice, is smoothly versified, but in poetical merit it is inferior to the original. His best and most original poem is his Country Justice. Here he paints the rural life of England in its true colors; and his picture of the gipsys, and sketches of venal clerks and rapacious overseers, are genuine likenesses. In the following passage he pleads warmly for the poor vagrant tribe :— Still mark if vice or nature prompt the deed; Alike if folly or misfortune brought Those last of woes his evil days have wrought; Perhaps on some inhospitable shore The houseless wretch a widowed parent bore; The child of misery, baptized in tears. The allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathetic lines of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott remarks that the only time he ever saw Burns, this picture was in his room. Burns shed tears over it; and Scott, then only fifteen years old, was the only person present who could tell him where the lines were to be found. The passage is beautiful in itself, but this incident will embalm and preserve it forever. To the extract from the Country Justice,' we add the following fervent and pious ode: ETERNAL PROVIDENCE. Light of the world, Immortal Mind; Whose boundless eye that knows no rest, And sees eternal incense rise! To thee my humble voice I raise; Though thou this transient being gave, Eternal source of life and day! Thy bounty still the sunshine pours, That gilds its morn and evening hours. To thee my humble voice I raise; Forgive, while I presume to praise. Through error's maze, through folly's night, Where stern affliction waves her rod, Affliction flies, and Hope returns ; Her lamp with brighter splendour burns; To thee my humble voice I raise; O may I still thy favour prove! Besides his poems Dr. Langhorne produced several works in prose, the most successful of which was his Letters of Theodosius and Constantia; and in conjunction with his brother, he published a Translation of Plutarch's Lives, which is still regarded as the best English version of that ancient author. SIR WILLIAM JONES, whose profound learning and philological researches, were the wonder and admiration of his contemporaries, was a poet also of no mean pretensions; but, as Southey justly observes, 'it is not as a poet, but as an oriental scholar and legislator, an enlightened lawyer and patriot, that he earned his laurels, and perpetuated his name.' William Jones was the son of a celebrated mathematician, and was born in London, in 1746. He had the misfortune, however, to lose his father when he was only three years of age; but his mother, on whom his education now devolved, was, by her virtues and extensive learning, well qualified for the task. When in his fifth year, his youthful imagination was caught by the sublime description of the angel in the tenth chapter of the Apocalypse, and the impression was never effaced from his mind. In 1753, he was placed at Harrow school, where he continued nearly ten years, and became an accomplished and critical classical scholar. He did not confine his attention merely to the ancient authors usually studied at the school, but acquired also a knowledge of the Arabic characters, and sufficient Hebrew to enable him to read the Psalms. In 1764, Jones entered University College, Oxford; and his taste for oriental literature increasing, he engaged a native of Aleppo, with whom he had become acquainted in London, to act as his preceptor. He also assidu ously perused the Greek poets and historians. In his nineteenth year, he accepted an offer to become private tutor to Lord Althorp, afterwards Earl Spencer. A fellowship at Oxford was also conferred upon him, and thus the scholar was relieved from the fear of want, and enabled to pursue his favorite studies with unremitting diligence. An opportunity for displaying one branch of his acquirements was afforded in 1768. The king of Denmark in that year visited England, and brought with him an eastern manuscript, containing the life of Nadir Shah, which he wished translated into French. Jones executed this arduous task successfully, being, as Lord Teignmouth, his biographer, remarks, the only oriental scholar in England adequate to the performance. He still continued in the noble family of Spencer, and, in 1769, accompanied his pupil to the continent. On his return to England in the following year, Jones, feeling anxious to attain an independent position in life, entered as a student of the Temple, and, applying himself with his characteristic ardor to his new profession, he contemplated, with pleasure, the 'stately edifice of the laws of England,' and soon mastered their most important principles and details. In 1774, he published Commentaries on Asiatic Poetry, but finding that jurisprudence was a jealous mistress, and would not admit the eastern muses to participate in his attentions, he devoted himself for some years exclusively to his legal studies. In 1778, having now commenced practice at the bar, he published a translation of the speeches of Isæus, in causes concerning the law of succession to property at Athens, to which he added notes and a commentary. The stirring events of the time in which he lived, were not beheld without strong interest by this accomplished scholar. He was decidedly opposed to the American war, and to the slave-trade, at that time so prevalent; and, in 1781, he produced his noble Alcaic Ode, animated by the purest spirit of patriotism, and a high strain of poetical enthusiasm. Anxious to go abroad, he obtained the appointment of one of the judges of the supreme court, at Fort William, in Bengal, and the honor of knighthood was, at the same time, conferred upon him. In April, 1783, Sir William Jones, in the thirty-seventh year of his age, married the daughter of the bishop of St. Asaph, and immediately after embarked for India. He entered upon his judicial functions with all the advantages of a high reputation, unsullied integrity, disinterested benevolence, and unwearied perseverance. In the intervals of leisure from his judicial duties, he directed his attention to scientific objects, and established a society in Calcutta to promote inquiries by the ingenious, and to concentrate the knowledge to be collected in Asia. In 1784, he wrote The Enchanted Fruit, or Hindoo Wife, a poetical tale, and A Treatise on the Gods of Greece, Italy, and India, besides contributing to The Asiatic Miscellany, a periodical established in Calcutta. In 1789, he translated an ancient Indian drama, Sacontala, or the Fatal Ring, which exhibits a picture of Hindoo manners in the century preceding the Christian era. He also contemplated an epic poem on the Discovery of England by Brutus, to which |