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portraits of celebrated personages of English history. 

 I can only take leave to disjoint, or to dislocate, or 

 copy, a very few of his words, and to apply them to 

 the [following scanty pages, as it must be interesting 

 to have exhibited before our eyes our fathers as 

 they lived, accompanied with such memorials of their 

 lives and characters, as enable us to compare their 

 persons and countenances with their sentiments: 

 portraits shewing us how " our ancestors looked, 

 moved, and dressed," as the pen informs us " how 

 they thought, acted, lived and died." One cannot 

 help feeling kindness for the memories of those whose 

 writings have pleased us.* 



What native of the county of Hereford, but must 

 wish to see their town-hall ornamented with a life- 

 breathing portrait of Dr. Beale, embodying, as it 



* Few persons have shewn more attachment to family portraits 

 than Miss Seward. This is strongly exemplified in several be- 

 quests in her will ; not only in her bequest to Emma Sneyd, and 

 in that to Mrs. Powys, but also in the following : *' The minia- 

 ture picture of my late dear friend, Mr. Saville, drawn in 1770, 

 by the late celebrated artist Smart, and which at the time it was 

 taken, and during many successive years, was an exact resem- 

 blance of the original, I bequeath to his daughter, Mrs. Smith, 

 who I know will value and preserve it as a jewel above all prize ; 

 and in case of her previous demise, I bequeath the said precious 

 miniature to her daughter, Mrs. Honora Jager, exhorting the said 

 Honora Jager, and her heirs, into whose hands soever it may fall, to 

 guard it with sacred care from the sun and from damp, as I have 

 guarded it, that so the posterity of my valued friend may know 

 what, in his prime, was the form of him whose mind through life, 

 by the acknowledgment of all who knew him, and could discern the 



