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eluding lines emulate with no unworthy spirit, those of the last 

 Georgic. It may be added, that some French critics have 

 thought the famous poem of Delille on the same subject inferior 

 to that of Rapin. — Introductio7t to the Literature of Europe. 



While reading for the Bar, acted as dramatic critic to the Morning LORD 

 Chronicle ; later Lord Chief Justice and Lord Chancellor of England, and p"^^^??^^ 

 biographer of his predecessors in those offices. He declared himself on the v^ 779-1 )• 

 hustings to be ^ Plain Jock Campbell,^ introduced and carried the ^ Divoj-ce 

 Act' of 1857, defended L.ord Melbourne and Mrs Norton, and is most often 

 quoted in the Law Courts as the godfather of the Act for the protection of the 

 British Workman. 



HE house, garden and pleasure-grounds (at Hartrigge, in 

 Roxburghshire) were in a sad state of neglect, the former 

 laird having been in embarrassed circumstances. I began with 

 some zeal to repair and improve. I am a decided lover of 

 London life, admiring the saying of the old Duke of Queensberry, 

 who still sticking to his house in Piccadilly in the month of 

 September, and being asked whether the town was not now 

 rather empty, replied, 'Yes, but the country is much emptier.' 

 Nevertheless, I am by no means insensible to the beauties of 

 nature, and although I could not write a treatise De Utilitate 

 Stercorandi, and most of the rural occupations enumerated by 

 Cicero in his De Se?iectute are much above me, I have great 

 delight in gardening. I have even a Httle farm in my own 

 hands, and my heart swells within me when my turnips are 

 praised as the most luxuriant, and my stooks are declared to be 

 the most crowded to be seen in Teviotdale. — Life of J.ord 

 Ca77ipbell^ by his daughter^ the Hon. Mrs Hardcastle. 



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TT is in society as in nature — not the useful, but the ornamental, SIR 



A that strikes the imagination. DAVy'^^'^ 



The monstrous flower, which produces nothing, arrests the eye; (1778-1829). 

 the modest and humble germ of the grain, the staff of human 



