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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794. 



For qualities most dear, plung'd from that 

 height. 



And sunk, deep sunk, in second child- 

 hood's night ! 



Are men indeed such thing?? Aad are 

 the best 



More subject to this evil than the rest. 



To drivel out whole years of idiot breath, 



And sit the monumens of living death? 



O galling circumstances to human pride ! 



Abasing thought ! but not to be deny'd. 



With cuiious art the brain, too finely 

 wrought, 



J>reys on herself, and is destroy'd by 

 thought. 



Constant attention wears the active mind. 



Blots out her pow'rs, and leaves a blank 

 behind." 



In this sad state he was com- 

 mitted to the care of a person at 

 Paddington. The management of 

 the theatre was entrusted to his 

 son, -with an allowance of 600I. a 

 year. 



Mr. Cohnah died on the lith 

 of August, 1794, at the age of 62, 

 at Paddington. A few hours 

 before his death he was seized 

 with violent spasms, which were 

 succeeded by a melancholy stu- 

 por, in which he drew bis last 

 breath. 



NATURAL 



