...shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan! These lines are attributed to a noble poet, who when he writes upon what really touches him, is sure...

...shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which rnay remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan! These lines are attributed to a noble poet, who when he writes upon what really touches him, is sure...

...unfortunately depend on a metaphor which wants effect and attraction because it wants novelty : ' Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die in moulding Sheridan !' If lovers and mourners may be credited, Nature has so often broken the moulds in which she has cast...

...shall we seek his likeness — long, in vain. And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. LIVES • Foi. — Pit — Bitrk«. Poetry. LIS'ES Competed on hearing that WALTER ScoTTi Eíq. Jad...

...shall we seek his likeness— lon» in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die— in moulding Sheridan ! THE EMD. Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey. 255 THE FOLLOWING . nn BOOKS, ADAPTED TO THE...

...but in the language of adulation, as one of the rarest specimens of humanity. We are to sigh " That Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan." Yes ; he was one of those thirty thousand deities to which modern idolatry has allotted an apotlitusis...

...shall. we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding SHERIDAN ! Hyperbolical nonsense like this is any thing but praise ; and the reader who had no other knowledge...

...Long shall we seek his likeness— long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan ! NOTES MONODY ON THE DEATH OF SHERIDAN. Note 1, page 52, line 27. When the loud cry-of trampled Hindoatan....

...shall we seek his likeness — long, in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such Man, And broke the die— in moulding SHERIDAN ! / •. The following singular notice lately appeared on the door of a Roman Catholic Chapel in the...

...shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding SHERIDAN !" Such is the extravagance of the last two lines, and their forced connexion, if they can be said to connect...