30 PKEFACE. 



courser's pursuit affords, of transcribing a spirited and highly 

 poetical production of the late Mr. Barnard, of Brantingham- 

 thorpe, 1 breathing the refined sentiments of a gifted scholar 



1. Of Mr. Barnard, who was accustomed to enliven the sedentary pleasures of his 



intellectual pursuits with the active and salutary recreation of coursing, and to shake 



otF, in Horatian language, " inhumanee senium . . . Caracens," in the company of his 



greyhounds, on the wolds of Yorkshire, the reader must pardon me, if I speak with 



the deepest regret. He was indeed, like Maximus the friend and correspondent of 



Symmachi Symmachus, " inter sodales ApoUinis ac Dianre, utriusque sectator," or in the appo- 



Epist. Lib. IX. site words of Ercole Strozzl, 

 Ep. 28. 



Cffisaris Borgia sylvse scius, et scius artis 



Ducis Epice- Pieriae, Phoebo et Plioebas gratissimus aeque. 



dium. 



But alas ! gifted as he was, far beyond the ordinary worshippers of the sylvan goddess, 

 he hath " begun the travel of eternity," 



Sophoclis Tra- ^4^7]k^ t^v iravv(na.ry\v 



chin. V. 887. ^g-^ 'a-Ka(Tu:v. 



The periodical publications of the day have given to the world the mournful 

 tribute of a scholar to his memory : and when the voice of affection hath sung " the 

 deathless praise " of a departed sou, that of friendship may be silent. But let it not 

 be supposed that the learning and genius of this accomplished man were confined to 

 the inferior and perishable subjects of the courser's pursuit. The powers of his 

 talented mind were directed also to the high and heavenly callings of his profession ; 

 and among other subjects, to the commemoration in verse and prose, of the saints and 

 martyrs of the Protestant Church. In the words of the Nutricia of Politiano, he was 

 indeed 



Carm. quinque Felix ingenio, felix cui pectore tantas 



illustr. Poetar. t . • • r . 



Instaurare vices, cui las tam magna capaci 

 p. l<b. . . 



Alternare aniuio, et varias ita nectere curas ! 



His poetical version of the poems of the younger Flaminio, a celebrated Latinist of 

 the sixteenth century, on which he was engaged till his fatal illness, and the publica- 

 tion of which he fondly anticipated, will add, I trust, to his posthumous fame. 



Pindar. Pyth. ivVhxiyui 



VIII, 131. ^poTwv rh TipTTv'bv av^(Taf ovtu 



5e KoX irnvii x«;"aJ) airoTpoirtf) 



•yvdiiia aiff^KTix^vov. 



(irdfifpoi. Tj 5e' Tis ; ti S' oy tis ; 



CTKias uvap &vOpwiTOL. 



