"Passer du grave au doux, du sérieux au sévère.” BOILEAU ART. POET. "From grave to gay, from lively to severe." ......" Miscens utile dulci.".........HOR. ARS. POET. BY A VETERAN BRITISH OFFICER, Fork: Printed by Thomas Wilson and Son, for the Author; AND SOLD BY J. HATCHArd, bookselLER TO HER MAJESTY, OPPOSITE ALBANY, PICCADILLY, LONDON; AND BY 1812. то The Rev. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, A. M. F. R.S. MEMBER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, VICAR OF HUNMANBY, IN YORKSHIRE, SIR, In this Volume you will find a variety of articles, which, in proportion to their excellence, will accord with your exquisite taste; there are others, which bear the stamp of mediocrity, but which may afford amusement to many; and not a few of a still humbler description, calculated, perhaps, to awake an occasional smile on the brow of Ennui. The splendid passages, on which I have presumed to comment, you will, of course, place to the account of the great men, from whose immortal works they are extracted; to |