The sexagenarian; or, the recollections of a literary life (Volume 1 of 2) — John Shaqi
The sexagenarian; or, the recollections of a literary life (Volume 1 of 2)Beloe, William
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The sexagenarian; or, the recollections of a literary life (Volume 1 of 2)
Beloe, William
Authors, English; Beloe, William, 1756-1817; English literature -- Anecdotes
many things worth preserving, for the mind which could have composed so
beautiful an Essay as the lines on the Day of Judgment, to which the
name of Dr. Glynn is annexed in Seaton’s Prize Poems, must also and
successfully have been exercised on other subjects of literature.
“I think it was during my residence, that he took the name of Cloberry,
in consequence of the will of a relation, who left him his estate; but
I do not believe that he was ever so called by any resident member of
the university, all of whom seemed to recognize something of agreeable
and affectionate familiarity in the appellation of Dr. Glynn. It should
be added, that in contradiction to the distance and austerity, in some
degree necessary, perhaps, to the heads and seniors of a university,
Dr. Glynn was remarkably kind and obliging to his juniors, and would
often invite young men to his apartments. I wish I could remember more
particulars concerning him. I know that he assisted both Mr. Bryant
and Mr. Mathias in the Chattertonian controversy, but all my enquiries
have not enabled me to discover whether he was the author of any other
literary productions. Every person will remember the affectionate
tributes to his merit, which appeared in the Pursuits of Literature.”
Si duceris ira
Servitii patiere jugum, tolerabis iniquas
Interius leges, tunc omnia jure tenebis
Cum poteris rex esse tui.
CHAPTER XIV.
GILBERT W.
The name of this personage occurs in various parts of our manuscript; but
the scrap which follows, did not seem unworthy of insertion, and appears
to have been drawn up with some care and pains.
The celebrated Gilbert W. was also a contemporary. He has written his
own life with some diffuseness, and he who writes this account is not
disposed to controvert any of his assertions, as they relate to himself.
With respect to others, the case is very different. He viewed every body,
who at all presumed to have opinions opposite to his own in matters of
religion, politics, or literature, with a jealous and a jaundiced eye;
nor could it be easy in the common intercourse of life, ever to meet
with a man in these instances so inflexibly pertinacious. Our friend,
it seems, and we use nearly his very words, knew him on his entrance
into life. He knew him in life’s progress, knew him till within a near
period to his dissolution. He was invariably the same; petulant, fond of
dispute, impatient of contradiction, and estimating every one’s talents
and merits merely as they harmonized with, or opposed his own prejudices
and propensities; yet, in his character and conduct, he involved this
singular contradiction—his demeanour in private society, was mild and
urbane, and certainly unprovoking; but the moment he took his pen in
hand, he appeared to divest himself of his customary garments, and to
clothe himself in storm and tempest, hurling his thunderbolts like
another Jupiter from Ida.
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