266 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Inventas âut qui vitam excoluere per artes ; 

 Quique fui memores alios fecere merendo *. 



^NEiD. Book vi. 



' ** Here inhabit the heroic bands who bled in 

 " fighting the battles of their Country; the facred 

 ** miniflers of religion, whofe life exhibited un- 

 ** fullied purity ; venerable bards, who uttered 

 '* ftrains not unworthy of Jpoi/o himfelf ; and 

 " thofe, who, by the invention of ufeful arts, con- 

 '* tributed to the comfort of human life ; all thofe, 

 ** in a word, who, by deferving well of Mankind, 

 ** have purchafed for themfelves adeathlefs name.** 



* Thus imitated : 



Here, Patriot-bands, who for their Country bled : 



Priefts, who a life of pureft virtue led : 



Here, Bards fublime, fraught with ethereal fire, 



Whofe heavenly ftrains outvied Apollo'% lyre : 



Divine Inventors of the ufeful Arts : 



Ail thofe whofe generous and expanfive hearts, 



By goodnefs fought to purchafe honeft fame ; 



And dying left behind a deathlefs name. 



Had St. Pierre.) in the courfe of his travels, come over to this Ifland, 

 and vifited Stonve, he would have found his idea of an Elyfium 

 anticipated, and upon no mean fcale, by the great Lord Cobham, 

 who has rendered every fpot, of that terreftrial Paradife, facred to 

 the memory of departed excellence. What would have given our 

 Author peculiar fatisfaftion, the Parifli Church ftands in the 

 centre of the Garden ; hence the People have unreftrained accefs 

 to it ; the monuments are, for the moft part, patriotic, without 

 regard to the diftinftions of rank and fortune, except as allied to 

 yirtue ; and the beft infcriptions are in plain English, and 



humble 



