such an impression on the reader that he was in presence not only of a man of surpassing genius, but of A PERFECT GENTLEMAN; not that this arose from his knowledge of what is called high life, or his possession of the ease and dignity which we call characteristic of lofty breeding; but it proceeded from the conviction that comes upon you as you read that here you are listening to the language of a brave and noble heart-of a man whose mind never harboured one base or dishonourable thought; who, as we learn when we inquire into his life, grudged no sacrifice to fulfil what he considered a duty, and whose ambition, “that last infirmity of noble minds," led him at last rather to die at his post than suffer any person to lose a shilling by reliance on his word. This is to be a gentleman. This is a race worth running-a reputation worth dying for.

Sound, sound the clarion! fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,

One crowded hour of glorious life

Is worth an age without a name!

And this is the moral to be drawn from all we have said; that Genius requires to be combined with something else-not mere rank or wealth, but with strong energy and "perseverance in well-doing”—to lift a man into the great eminence on which Scott now stands.

No man ever lived for forty years so full in the eye of the public as he did, and left no single spot upon his fame. His life was before the men of two generations; and the old man of the one was the same kind, earnest, unselfish, honourable individual as the youth of the other had been. There is no whisper in all those years of literary jealousies, or even political hatreds. With all the great authors of the time he was on the kindest terms; with Whigs, and all varieties of political opponents, he was as friendly as with his own allies. With lords and ladies he was the pleasantest of companions; and in the cottages of the poor he was a no less welcome guest. If any of you feel the glowings of the poetic fire, turn it, as he did, to high and useful purposes,

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Depart in peace and imitate the man.

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