ration: Behold him going to execution--his beloved daughter
(Mrs. Roper) rushing through the guards, to take her last embrace.]

[Footnote 296: In the first volume of my edition of SIR
THOMAS MORE'S _Utopia_, the reader will find an elaborate
and faithful account of the biographical publications
relating to this distinguished character, together with a
copious _Catalogue Raisonne_ of the engraved portraits of
him, and an analysis of his English works. It would be
tedious to both the reader and author, here to repeat what
has been before written of Sir Thomas More--whose memory
lives in every cultivated bosom. Of this edition of the
Utopia there appeared a flimsy and tart censure in the
_Edinburgh Review_, by a critic, who, it was manifest, had
never examined the volumes, and who, when he observes upon
the fidelity of Bishop Burnet's translation of the original
Latin of More, was resolved, from pure love of Whiggism, to
defend an author at the expense of truth.]

[Footnote 297: I have read this newly published biographical
memoir of Sir Thomas More: which contains nothing very new,
or deserving of particular notice in this place.]

[Footnote 298: A bibliomanical anecdote here deserves to be
recorded; as it shews how More's love of books had infected
even those who came to seize upon him to carry him to the
Tower, and to endeavour to inveigle him into treasonable
expressions:--"While Sir Richard Southwell and Mr. Palmer
were bussie in _trussinge upp his bookes_, Mr. Riche,
pretending," &c.--"Whereupon Mr. Palmer, on his desposition,
said, that he was soe bussie about the _trussinge upp Sir
Tho. Moore's bookes_ in a sacke, that he tooke no heed to
there talke. Sir Richard Southwell likewise upon his
disposition said, that because he was appoynted only to
looke to the conveyance _of his bookes_, he gave noe ear
unto them."--_Gulielmi Roperi Vita D.T. Mori_; edit Herne,
p. 47, 51.]

[Footnote 299: Epistle Dedicatory to Ecclesiastes: quoted in
that elegant and interesting quarto volume of the "_Lives of
British Statesmen_," by the late Mr. Macdiarmid; p. 117.]

How can I speak, with adequate justice, of the author of these
words!--Yes, ERASMUS!--in spite of thy timidity, and sometimes, almost
servile compliances with the capricious whims of the gr