LIFE OF LANGHORNE. 



virtuous deed, than all they can enjoy from the works of poetry 

 and wit." 



Having a desire to take the degree of bachelor of divinity, he 

 entered himself, in 1760, at Clare Hall, where he wrote the poems 

 on the accession and marriage of his present majesty, which are no\T 

 published in the tale of "Solyman and Almena." 



As, by the statutes of the university of Cambridge, a person may 

 take ills degrees without being compelled to become a resident, 

 Mr. Langhorne was enabled to continue in the family of Mr. Cra- 



\, where, from a congeniality of sentiment, an attachment of the 

 'it tender nature originated between him and Miss Ann, the 

 second daughter of that gentleman. This young lady was very 

 accomplished, and, by her love for study, formed a striking contrast 

 to the generality of modern females. She devoted much attention 

 to the cultivation of the elegant arts, and, under the tuition of 

 Mr. I.-anghorne, she became proficient in the Italian language. It 

 also appears, that she peculiarly excelled in that delightful, that 

 heavenly science, which 



can soften steel and stone, 



Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 

 Forsake unsounded deeps and dance on sands." 



And this being her favourite study, our readers will readily conceive 

 the impression it must have made on a heart of far less sensibility 

 tJian that of Mr. Langhorne; for justly has it been observed, that 



" The man who hath no music in his soul, 

 Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils." 



The situation, however, in which this gentleman was placed can 

 only be conceived, to its full extent, by those who have been in a 

 similar predicament. Such can form a just idea of the feelings of bur 

 author, who, although possessed of all the facility of eloquence and 

 gentlemanly manners which result from a liberal education and a mind 

 of sensibility, although he found his heart overflowing with the sub- 



