22 MEMOIRS O? 



the drefs. Mr. W. Seward has not dil- 

 played in thofe volumes, the happy art 

 of animating narration. Common occur- 

 rences, even in the lives of eminent people, 

 weary attention, unlefs they are told with 

 elegance and fpirit. From the ardently 

 fought fociety of men of genius, this gen- 

 tleman acquired a ftriking degree of wit 

 and ingenious allufion in converfation, 

 though it was too uniformly, and too 

 cauftically, of the farcaftic fpecies ; but 

 every fort of fire feems to have evaporated 

 from the language of Mr. W. Seward in 

 paffing through his pen. 



Mr. Day and Mr. Edgeworth took the 

 houfe now inhabited by Mr. Morefby, in 

 the little green valley of Stow, that Hope* 

 from the eaft end of the cathedral, and 

 forms, with it's old grey tower on the 

 banks of it's lake, fo lovely a landfcape. 

 That houfe was Mr. Day's bachelor man- 

 fion through the year 17/0; that of Mr. 



Edge- 



