They say that at the last he complained of seeing things dimly--seeing things, too, which others did not see (as the bystanders told him). "Then, 'twas a vision," he said. Two days thereafter he entered very quietly upon the visions all men see after death; leaving that poor, scathed, {51} misshapen body--I should think gladly--leaving the pleasant home shaded by the willows he had planted; and leaving a few wonderful poems which I am sure will live in literature as long as books are printed. [1] Narcisse Luttrel: _A brief historical Relation of State affairs_ from September, 1678, to April, 1714. [2] George Berkeley, b. 1685; d. 1753. His works (3 vols.) and Life and Letters (1 vol.); edited by Fraser, in 1871. See also very interesting monograph on Berkeley, in Professor Tyler's _Three Men of Letters_, Putnam, 1895. [3] _An essay toward preventing the Ruin of Great Britain_, 1721. [4] Dr. Samuel Johnson, afterward, 1754, first President of King's (now Columbia) College, New York; he was a graduate of Yale; life by Dr. Beardsley. [5] In 1730, he writes to Samuel Johnson, of Stratford, Ct.: "Pray let me know whether they [the college authorities] would admit the writings of Hooker and Chillingworth to the Library of the College of New Haven?" [6] One of his last publications was, "_Siris: a chain of Philosophical Reflections and inquiries concerning the Virtues of Tar-water._" And it is remarkable that its arguments and teeming illustrations have not been laid hold of by our modern venders of Tar-soap. [7] Richard Bentley, b. 1662; d. 1742. Native of Oulton, Yorkshire. Was first Boyle Lecturer, 1692; Master of Trinity, 1700; _Works_, edited by Dyce, London, 1836 (only 3 vols. issued of a proposed 8 vol. edition). _Life_, by Jacob Mähly, Leipsic, 1868. [8] B. 1732; d. 1811. Best known by his _Memoirs_, 1806; among his plays is _False Impressions_, in which appears Scud, the forerunner of Dickens's _Alfred Jingle_. [9] All along the foot-notes in a great Quarto of the _Paradise Lost_ (London, 1732) Bentley's critical pyrotechnics flame, and flare; and he closes a bristling preface with this droll caveat;--"I made [these] notes _extempore_, and put them to the Press as soon as made; without any Apprehension of growing leaner by Censures, or plumper by Commendations." [10] Isaac Watts, b. 1674; d. 1748. _Horæ Lyricæ_: Memoir by Southey (vol. ix., _Sacred Classics_: London, 1834). Lowndes (_Bib. Manual_) says, that up to 1864, there were sold annually 50,000 copies of Watts's Hymns. [11] B. 1681; d. 1765. Works, with memoir, by J. Mitford. 2 vols., 12mo. London, 1834. [12] Only _staying_; since the play (of _The Brothers_) was brought out in 1753, some twenty years after his establishment in the rectory of Welwyn. [13] Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, b. 1690 (or 1689?); d. 1762. Works (3 vols.), edited by her great grandson, Lord Wharncliffe: Later edition (1861), with life by Moy Thomas.