EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS. ON THE REV. MR. PENROSE. Thirty-two years Vicar of St. Gluvias, Cornwall. IF social manners, if the gentlest mind, ON MRS. BLANDFORD. MEEK shade, farewell! go seek that quiet shore ON MRS. LITTLE, In Redcliffe Church, Bristol. O COULD this verse her fair example spread, ON GENERAL LAWRENCE, Memorable for his Conquests in India, and for his Clemency to the vanquished.* On a Monument erected by Sir Robert Palk. BORN to command, to conquer, and to spare, Here LAWRENCE rests in death; while living fame *Major-General Stringer Lawrence died in 1775, at Haldonhouse, the seat of his friend Sir Robert Palk, in Devonshire. The India company erected a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey; and Sir Robert another, still more elegant, in the parish church of Dunchideock, in Devonshire, on which last, this epitaph is incribed. ON THE REV. MR. HUNTER Who, in 1771, received a degree from the University of Oxford for his work against Lord Bolingbroke's philosophy. Go, happy spirit, seek that blissful land Where zealous Michael leads the glorious band A son, whose father, living, was his pride; The Rev. Thomas Hunter, M. A. vicar of Weaverham, in Cheshire, died there in 1778. This epitaph was written at the request of his son; and Dr. Stonhouse says, the composition took the author only a few minutes. Two volumes of Mr. Hunter's sermons were published after his death, by subscription. Besides his answer to Bolinbroke, he wrote an excellent tract on the corrupt principles of Chesterfield.-ED. TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ELIZABETH IVES, Aged 91, of Northampton. HER pious and useful life was extended to an honourable old age, and closed by an exemplary death. Her Charity had its source in Religion: Her love of her neighbour was the genuine effect of her love of God: Her Resignation was the Fruit of her Faith; and she died in Hope, because she had lived A CHRISTIAN. ON CLUER DICEY, ESQ. In Claybrook Church, Leicestershire. O THOU, or friend or stranger, who shalt tread This truth, long slighted, let these ashes teach, Though cold, instruct you, and though silent preach: O pause! reflect, repent, resolve, amend! ON A YOUNG LADY. Go, peaceful shade! exchange for sin and care Those silent graces which the good conceal, INSCRIPTION ON A CENOTAPH IN A GARDEN, Erected to a deceased Friend. YE liberal souls who rev'rence Friendship's name, Who boast her blessings, and who feel her flame; O! if from early youth one friend you've lov'd, Whom warm affection chose, and taste approv'd; If you have known what anguish rends the heart, When such, so known, so lov'd, for ever part; Approach!-For you the mourner rears this stone, To sooth your sorrows, and record his own. ON THE REV. MR. LOVE,* In the Cathedral at Bristol. WHEN worthless grandeur fills the embellish'd urn, Stranger! shouldst thou approach this awful shrine O let them in some pause of anguish say, What zeal inflam'd, what faith enlarg'd his breast¡ How glad th' unfetter'd spirit wing'd its way From earth to heaven, from blessing to be blest! Samuel Love, M. A. Fellow of Baliol college, Oxford, and one of the minor canons of Bristol cathedral, died at the early age of twenty-nine, in 1773. In such estimation was he held for his piety and eloquence, that a subscription was entered into for the erection of a monument to his memory. |