what place my beloved friend is interred; and I anxiously hope to hear that he has left his family in comfortable circumstances. I have the honour to be, Sir, your respectful and obedient servant, S. PARR.

The Rev. George Henry Glasse, son of the Rev. Dr. Glasse, whose removal from Harrow to Greenford has been mentioned in the early part of these memoirs, opens his correspondence with Dr. Parr in the following terms:

REV. SIR,

Greenford, Feb. 26, 1784.

I am at this moment so situated, that I am only able to acknowledge, with all possible gratitude, the honour of your letter. My life is not of consequence enough to merit such praises.

You will be pleased to be informed that the delight I received from seeing the Edipus Tyrannus represented at Stanmore, gave me the first idea of a work which you are pleased so highly to approve, and which less liberal minds discountenance and condemn. Your letter shall be my comfort when the thoughts of the cruel treatment I have received hang heavy upon me.

I had designed an eternal adieu to the Grecian Muse; if ever I resume the study it is because I regard your approbation more than the censures of the Critical Review, or the indifference and coldness with which an attempt (as an attempt laudable) was received at Christ Church.

My father desires his most respectful compliments, and I am, and ever shall be, Sir, your most obliged and most devoted GEORGE HENRY GLASSE.

servant,

This letter refers to Caractacus, then published, and rather unmercifully lashed, I believe, by Dr. Burney, as the Samson certainly was afterwards, in the Monthly Review. The letters of Mr. Glasse are full of asknowledgments of Dr. Parr's valuable assistance-his emendations of the Samson, and his alteration of some Latin composition.

As to the declaration (he says in one of them) that I will write no more in the Greek Drama, I hope it may be suffered to pass, as it is the fixed resolution of my soul. The burthen of a parish, the fatigue attending my engagements at Greenford, and the necessity I think myself under of studying divinity in the few hours I shall be able to call my own, are motives irresistible to this determination. But of your goodness to me, my dear and honoured patron, I will retain a grateful sense to the last moment of my existence; and I trust I shall ever preserve a share in your friendship and regard. I remain, your obliged and faithful servant,

Nov. 28, 1787.

GEORGE HENRY GLASSE.

If I were to publish the whole of Mr. Glasse's letters to Dr. Parr from 1784 to 1807 inclusive, in which last year he sends him a Clerum for his B.D. degree, they would but exemplify the assistance which Dr. Parr was called upon to give, and did frequently contribute, to young scholars and ambitious authors. Perhaps not in the same quantity or in the same degree, for Mr. Glasse was certainly not one of the Pleiad of English Greek scholars of the day. This he acknowledges himself in the following letter, at least by implication; and I shall close the whole account with another letter, curibus from its hopes, its fears, and its requests.

DEAR SIR,

Greenford, Dec. 2, 1789.

Mr. Burney has had the candour to publish my letter entire, with a postscript very flattering to me. Having the praise to which I felt myself entitled, I will sit down under the censure I cannot but feel I deserved. I hope you will not disapprove any thing I have said in my address to the Reviewer. The ground was not tenable; and I endeavoured to make as handsome a retreat as I could.

I have had a most pleasing letter from Mr. Twining; he still

asserts that I undertook more than could be performed, but adds that, I performed more than could be expected.

On this, and on every other occasion, my gratitude to you is justly due. I glory in the support and assistance you gave me; I rejoiced in the opportunity of proclaiming it to the world. Had White done as much ; but I will pester you no

more on that subject, nor detain you longer than while I return you my best thanks for your last obliging favour, and testify my regret at not being able to obey your commands, touching some detestable and despicable paragraphs which never were in my possession, but which, at the houses of some of my neighbours, passed under my indignant eye.

That your health may be fully restored, and that those public honours to which you are entitled may be added to those of less profit, but more value, which you enjoy in the hearts of your friends, is the earnest wish and prayer of, dear Sir, your ever grateful and obliged servant, GEORGE HENRY GLASSE.

REV. AND DEAR SIR,

Jan. 20, 1789.

I do assure you I have not been inattentive to the subject of your last interesting letter, and I should sooner have answered it, had I not expected from my friends, to whom I had stated the particulars, a greater number of subscriptions than the inclosed bill amounts to. However, if I hear from any more of them, I will, with great pleasure, send a second remittance.

My father desires his best compliments to you, and cheerfully contributes his donation, on the account you gave of the urgent necessity of the case.

Your kind acceptance of the effusions of my well-meant zeal, demands my best thanks. I do most sincerely rejoice in your approaching honours, and I ought to have something to com. fort me, for I lose all my hopes of advancement with the present Administration. These, you will say, were at best but slight ones. I allow it. And the experience of thirty years, in the case of my father, should reconcile me to disappointment,

But waving all personal considerations, I really feel so much for the situation of the King, and the afflictions of his family, particularly his wife, that the happiness of my life is affected by it.

You, dear Sir, love sincerity too well to be displeased with the above honest declaration of my sentiments. But heartily shall I take pleasure in your promotion, and if such a thing should be, that merit like yours should, for once, be exalted to its deserved honours, I hope you will not think it too great presumption in me to solicit the office of one of your chaplains. I should esteem it my pride and pleasure to receive a scarf from your hands; and my present patron (an Irish Peer) would, I know, very readily relinquish me,

facilis jactura patroni.

But to return from these pleasing visions to matters which demand more immediate consideration.

I have had a little correspondence with the doers of the Analytical Review.

I wrote to the Editor, to say that I wished for an hour's confidential conversation with him, and subscribed my name and place of abode. In a few days I received an answer from Johnson, the bookseller, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard, stating, that to preserve the Review as independent as possible, the editor wished to be concealed; but that any communications made to him (Johnson) would be faithfully transmitted, &c. &c. I wrote in reply, that my late Greek Translation of Samson Agonistes had been reviewed by one of the first scholars in the kingdom. That the critique was not published, and that the writer, "who was not accustomed to seek, but to be sought by, the dispensers of literary fame," might possibly, by proper application through me, be induced to favour them with his remarks,

I enclose you Johnson's second answer.

You, dear Sir, are not in the least committed, otherwise than by the pointedness of the above description. And, therefore, if it is not your pleasure, that your observations should find a place in the Analytical Review, here let the business rest. If otherwise, be pleased to favour me with your sentiments. Should you be inclined to comply with my ardent wish on the occasion, it may perhaps be best to wait till after the Monthly Review has appeared, for which I wait with a trembling im patience that savours little of my honoured patron's intrepidity. Your ever obliged and most faithful servant, G. H. GLASSE,

CHAPTER VIII.

Wadenhoe-H. Homer-Var. Horace-Dr. Combe.

About this time, Parr exchanged the curacy of Hatton for the rectory of Wadenhoe, with Dr. Bridges, bargaining to retain the house at Hatton, and to do the duty there. The real motives of this exchange were kindness to Dr. Bridges, who could not hold the preferment he then possessed, with Wadenhoe: certainly there was no real gain to Parr in it, of a pecuniary kind. At Hatton he still received pupils into his house, and still laboured incessantly in his calling, as a parish priest. Hatton indeed was no less the seat of the Muses, than of hospitality, during the whole of Parr's abode there. His table was well replenished with simple fare, his cellar was amply stored; and he was no churl, or economist in his bounteous giving. Not only his own friends, but the friends of his friends, were welcome, especially if they were Foxites, or Whigs; nor was the well-behaved Pittite or Tory, unwelcome, if they could bear with composure, certain tirades on their leader and their politics.

There could be no higher treat than to witness his manner of conversing with those he loved or reverenced, whatsoever were their differences in opinion-with Bishop Bennet's soft and graceful tone of thinking and speaking, and with that mild, calm,