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Poëtæ luminibus sententiarum
et ponderibus verborum admirabili,
Magistro virtutis gravissimo,

Homini optimo et singularis exempli, &c.

Now for the close. Master Ned, que couples closer than et; and ac more loosely than either. Thus,-Senatus populusque Romanus. You see Romanus applies άπò кovoυ to both. So I have put,-Amici et Sodales litterarii, &c.

The execution in form of letters and pointing, &c. is done according to the best models, Ned. I am confoundedly out of humour, and so you may tell Dr. Pretyman.

I wished to be short, and to preserve the apéλeia; these fine go folks in alia omnia.

After I had written the Epitaph, Sir Joshua Reynolds told me there was a Scroll. I was in a rage. A Scroll! Why, Ned, this is vile modern contrivance. I wanted one train of Ideas. What could I do with the Scroll? Johnson held it, and Johnson must speak in it. I thought of this, his favourite maxim, in the Life of Milton,

Οτι τοὶ ἐν μεγάροισι κακόν τ' ἀγαθόν τε τέτυκται

In Homer* you know,-and shewing the excellence of Moral Philosophy. There Johnson and Socrates agree.

Mr. Seward hearing of my difficulty, and no scholar, suggested the closing line in the Rambler; and had I looked there, I should have anticipated the suggestion. It is the closing line in Dionysius's Periegesis, mind.

Αὐτῶν ἐκ μακάρων ἀντάξιος εἴη ἀμοιβή.

This you see is religious, and better for a church. I adopted it, and gave Seward the praise. Oh! quoth Sir W. Scott, paKápwv is Heathenish, and the Dean and Chapter will hesitate. The more fools they, said 1. But to prevent disputes I have altered it.

Ἐν μακάρεσσι πόνων ἀντάξιος εἴη ἀμοιβή.

And so much for their Rev. and Rt. Rev. scruples. Ned, Ì will cut your throat, or have you downright guillotined, if you say one word to any lady till you hear from me. To be serious, I shall be angry if you say a word. 'Tis a good Epitaph after

* Odyss. 8. 392.

all. I'll send you Smitheman's, in a much better taste, Ned; for there I had my own way, and none of these litteratores and Grammaticastri to deal with. Oh! Ned, it is charming, and melts my very soul when I stand by it at the Communion Table. Farewell. My compliments and good wishes to Mrs. M.

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Master Ned, I could write three pages on probabili, as a Latin word to be approved by Latin ears and a Latin scull. Englishists

But these

PAGE 569.-At Long Whatton, Leicestershire, to a pupil. PAGE 571.-Aston Church, near Birmingham.

PAGE 573.-Oswestry, Salop.

PAGE 575.-Geneva.

PAGE 576.-Hatton Chancel.

PAGE 577.-Choulesbury, Bucks.

PAGE 579.-Kensington.

PAGE 581.-Budbroke, Warwickshire,

PAGE 582.-In the Chapel of Emanuel Coll. Cambridge.

PAGE 583.-St. Clement Danes, London,

PAGE 584.-After the line CONIVGI. B. M. the Christian name of the lady of Mr. Barretti being unknown to Dr. Parr, was omitted. A space was left for it in the original, which should have been also marked in the printed copy.

PAGE 585.-" The poets often, and sometimes the prose writers, use parentum : but I prefer parentium. Horace says,

Dos est magna parentium
Virtus.

The grammarian Charisius says that Cicero generally wrote parentium. Again, parentium is found in many inscriptions, and the learned Fabretti defends and illustrates this genitive plural as more adapted to inscriptions than parentum." S. PARR.

PAGE 587.-A draft of an inscription to Dr. Warton; the approved one, in Winchester Cathedral, follows in page 588.

PAGE 589.-Archdeacon Wrangham did not make use of this inscription, but adopted one written by himself.

PAGE 590.-Worcester Cathedral.

PAGE 591.-Rotten Park, near Birmingham.

PAGE 592.-For Beauchamps Chapel; and the following for the statue of Guy, at Guy's Cliff near Warwick, the seat of the late Bertie Greatheed, Esq.

PAGE 594.—On a piece of plate presented by Thomas William Coke, Esq. of Holkham.

PAGE 595.-These windows adorn the cathedral of Lichfield, and the inscription is in the east window of the south aisle.

PAGE 596.-On a piece of plate presented by T. W. Coke, Esq. PAGE 597.-Colchester.

PAGE 598. In the garden of Ealing Rectory, Hants.

PAGE 599-Wotton, Warwickshire.

PAGE 600.-Intended for a monument to Mr. Pitt.

PAGE 602.—Intended for the statue of that minister in the senate house of Cambridge.

PAGE 603.-Warrington, Cheshire. 1. 8. for PRECIPITI read

PRAECIPITI.

PAGE 604.-At Manchester.

PAGE 605.-1. 4. for A SACRIS read A SECRETIS.

PAGE 606.-Inscribed on the Temple of Liberty erected in the grounds of Woburn Abbey by the late Duke of Bedford.

PAGE 607.-This inscription in honour of Mr. Fox is incomplete, wanting dates with which Dr. Parr was not furnished.

PAGE 610.—" Mr. Chamberlayne was eager to have a Latin inscription. He liked that which I sent to him, and he never put it up. S. PARR."

PAGE 611.-Overbury, Gloucestershire.

PAGE 612.-The Charter House.

PAGE 613.—On a mural monument at Eartham, a village about two miles from Norwich. 1. 6 from bottom, for sciENTIA read SCIENTER. 1. 5 from bottom, for EFFECTUS read

AFFECTUS.

PAGE 616.-At Corunna, Spain.

PAGE 619.-On a salver at Worcester College, Oxford.

PAGE 621.-In the chapel of Caius Coll. Cambridge. PAGE 623.-These inscriptions to Mr. Barker are on fly-leaves of M. Nizolius Lexicon Ciceronianum, Patavi, 1734.

And in Th. Reinesius Epistolæ ad Ch. Daumium, Jenæ, 1670, 4to.

PAGE 625.-For Merton College, Oxford.

PAGE 626.-For a painted window at Merton College.

PAGE 627-In Grabe's Spicilegium SS. Patrum, ut et Hereticorum, seculi post Christum natum i. ii. iii. &c.

PAGE 628.-West Bromwich.

PAGE 629.-On a blank leaf in a copy of Graffe's Lexicon Prosodiarum, Gottingen, 1811, and of Draco's Liber de Metris Poeticis, Lips. 1812.

PAGE 631.-Harrow on the Hill.

PAGE 632.-The original and intended inscription for the vase presented by the late Emperor of Russia to the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford.

PAGE 633.-This is inscribed on the same vase, and the variations from the preceding inscription were made without Dr. Parr's knowledge and consent.

PAGE 634.-On a pyramidal building erected over King Richard's Well in Bosworth Field.

PAGE 635.-This cup has been generously given back by Dr. John Johnstone to be preserved, with Dr. Parr's plate, in the family.

PAGE 636.-In Poleni Supplementa, 5 vols. folio, printed at Venice.

PAGE 637.-Leicester.

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PAGE 638.-Dr. Parr presented this cup to his friend the Archdeacon Butler, by whom it has been generously returned to Dr. Parr's representatives.

PAGE 640.-In the south aisle of Westminster Abbey, between the monuments of Doctors Knipe and Stepney.

PAGE 644.-Rejected draft of an Inscription to Bp. Bennet. PAGE 645.-This is the revised and adopted inscription.

PAGE 646.-On a silver basin in the possession of the Marquis of Cholmondeley.

PAGE 648.-This inscription, being found among Dr. Parr's papers, has been inserted by mistake. It was written by his friend and learned pupil Dr. Maltby.

PAGE 649.-In a book presented to Thomas Denman, Esq.

PAGE 650.

"Bibliotheca mea, uti nuper comperi, novies mille et octingenta volumina continet. Per id gratum mihi perque honorificum est, quod multi eorum dono mihi dati sunt a viris, quos ob ingenium aut doctrinam aut virtutem caros semper habui. At neutiquam me impetrare possum, ut dissimulem et tot libris ne unum quidem esse, qui æquè æstimari debeat, ac prima hæc Aristophanis editio, quam Samuelis Romilly benevolentiæ pia et grata mente acceptam refero. S. PARR."

This book is deposited by Dr. Parr's orders in the library of Emanuel College, Cambridge.

PAGE 651.-for ASSERVANDUM read ASSERVANDAM.

PAGE 652.-In a book presented to Henry Brougham, Esq.

PAGES 653-654-655.-Dedicatory inscriptions in Bellenden de Statu, to Burke, Fox, and Lord North.

PAGE 658.-At Norwich.

PAGE 659.-Birmingham, on a tablet of white marble, in the chapel of which Dr. Priestley was minister.

PAGE 660.-At Manchester.

PAGE 662.-In the chancel of Hatton Church.

PAGE 663.-Dr. Parr was not supplied with the date omitted.

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