LIFE OF LANGHORNE. 



beautiful fields of vegetative nature afford an ample range for the 

 poet and the niorahst; and since every avenue which leads to 

 knowledge, and unlocks the sources of moral truth, requires to be 

 disclosed, the mode ot conveying instruction, by allegorising the 

 scenery of nature, must be considered as an acquisition to literature' 

 not only as it extends the province of the poetic genius, but as 

 tending to inspire just and ration ;1 sentiments of virtue." 



His poem, entitled "The Origin of the Veil," was also written 

 in 1771, while he was on a visit at Potton, in Bedfordshire; and 

 returning, in 1772, to his native county, he married the daughter of 



Thompson, Esq. a magistrate, who resided near Brough. 



With her he made a short tour througli part of France, and, on his 

 return, he retired to his parsonage at Blagdon, where he passed the 

 remainder of his days. 



In 1773, he was put in the commission of the peace, and at the 

 importunity of his fci^nd and coadjutor. Dr. Burn, he wrote the 

 "Country Justice," a poem, in three parts. He also translated, 

 from the Italian, "A Historical Dissertation on the ancient Rcpub-' 

 lies of Italy." 



It is a very remarkable circumstance in the life of this author, 

 that, in less than four years after his marriage, his second wife ex- 

 perienced the same fate as his first: 



*' 'Tis thus that Heaven its empire does maintain, 

 It may afflict, but man may not complain." 



She left him a daughter, whom, by will, he confided to the care of 

 Mrs. Gillman, a lady whose friendship he had gained by some 

 poetical compliments. 



By his interest with the Bouverie family, he was, in 1777, pre- 

 sented to a prebend in the cathedral of Wells, and would have ex- 

 perienced the highest dignities in his profession, if, in the death of 

 Mr. York, for whom the seals were intended, the doctor had not 

 lost a patron from whom he had received the strongest professions 

 of friendship. But 



