BR. DARWIN. 



of his fancy were enriched by an exhauftlefs 

 ftore of claffic, hiftoric, and theological 

 learning, grotefquely applied to the paffing 

 fubje&s of converfation, and that with 

 unrivalled eafe and happinefs. . It is to be 

 regretted that no records remain of talents 

 fo uncommon, except in the fading traces 

 of contemporary recolle&ion, which time 

 and mortality obliterate fo foon. fre- 

 quently, during his youth and middle 

 life, in the fafhionable circles of Bath, 

 London, and the fitmmer public places, 

 the whimfical fallies of the Redor's fportive 

 imagination, which were never coarfe or 

 low, commonplace or ill-natured, had 

 confiderable publicity and eclat. They 

 were like the lambent lightning of a calm 

 fummer evening, brilliant, but not dan- 

 gerous. The fweetnefs of his temper was 

 the fecurity of every man's felf-love; and, 

 while his humorous gayety " fet the table 

 " in a roar," the company laughed at their 

 cafe. 



But 



