he
weightiness of his matter would seem to have been scarcely enough
considered. But he has higher claims to the gratitude of his country,
and of mankind, than either prose or poetry can give. His steady zeal in
the cause of liberty, and justice, and truth, is above all praise; and
will leave his name among the few

--quos aequus amavit
Jupiter, aut ardens evexit ad aethera virtus,
Dis geniti.

FOOTNOTES
[1] [Greek: Leimhon], a meadow.
[2] [Greek: Alaethehis dhan tinas, o Sokrates, upolambanon, orthos tis
dianooit an; SO. Tas peri te ta kala legomena chromata kai peri ta
schaemata, kai ton osmon tas pleistas, kai tas ton phthongon, kai
osa tas endeias anaisthaetous echonta kai alupous, tas plaeroseis
aisthaetas kai aedeias katharas lupon paradidosi.] "What pleasures
then, Socrates, may one justly conclude to be true ones?--_Soc._
Those which regard both such colours as are accounted beautiful; and
figures; and many smells and sounds; and whatsoever things, when
they are absent, we neither feel the want of, nor are uneasy for;
but when present, we feel and enjoy without any mixture of
uneasiness." He then goes on to exemplify these true pleasures in
forms, colours, &c. Compare the De Rep. p. 534.

* * * * *

THOMAS CHATTERTON.

If it were allowable for one who professes to write the lives of
English poets to pass the name of Chatterton in silence, I should think
the literature of our country more honoured by the concealment of his
fate than by the record of his genius. Yet from his brief story, the
young will learn, that genius is likely to lead them into misery, if it
be not accompanied by something that is better than genius; and men,
whom birth and station have rendered eminent, may discover that they owe
some duty to those whom nature has made more than their equals; and
who--

Beneath the good tho' far--are far above the great.

Thomas Chatterton was born in the parish of St. Mary Redcliffe, at
Bristol, on the twentieth of November, 1752. His father, who was of the
same name, and who died about three months before the birth of his son,
had been writing-master to a classical school, singing-man in Bristol
cathedral, and master of the free-school in Pyle-street in that city;
and is related to have been inclined to a belief in magic, and deeply
versed in Cornelius Agrippa. His forefathers had borne the humble office
of s