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using it three times a-day : his pipe was his first companion 

 in the morning, and last at night.* He never remembered 

 to have taken a dose of physic in his life, prior to his last 

 fatal accident, nor of having a day's illness but once." A 

 list of his works appears in Watts's Bibl. Brit., and a most 

 full one in Johnson's History of English Gardening, who, 

 with many collected particulars of Abercrombie, relates the 

 great and continually increasing sale of some of his works. 



LAUNCELOT BROWNE, Esq. His portrait was painted by 

 Dance, and engraved by Sherwin. Under this portrait are 

 engraved the following lines, from the pen of Mr. Mason, 

 which are also inscribed on the tomb of Mr. Browne, in the 

 church of Fen-Staunton, Huntingdonshire : 



Ye sons of elegance, who truly taste 



The simple charms which genuine art supplies, 

 Come from the sylvan scenes his genius drew, 



And offer here your tributary sighs. 

 But know, that more than genius slumbers here, 



Virtues were his that art's best powers transcend, 

 Come, ye superior train ! who these revere, 



And weep the Christian, husband, father, friend. 



Mr. Walpole, too, pays Mr. Browne this elegant compli- 

 ment : " Did living artists come within my plan, I should be 



* Tea was the favourite beverage of Dr. Johnson. When Hanway pro- 

 nounced his anathema against it, Johnson rose in defence of it, declaring 

 himself " in that article a hardened sinner, having for years diluted my 

 meals with the infusion of that fascinating plant ; my tea-kettle has had no 

 time to cool ; with tea I have solaced the midnight hour, and with tea wel- 

 comed the morning." Mr. Pennant was a great lover of tea ; a hardy ho- 

 nest Welch parson, on hearing that he usually retired in the afternoon to his 

 summer-house to enjoy that beverage, was moved with indignation, that 

 any thing weaker than ale or wine should be drunk there ; and calling to 

 mind the good hunting times of old, passionately exclaimed, " his father 

 would have scorned it." 



