165 

 Dr. Darwin published, 



1. Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life. 



2. Phytologia, or the Philosophy of Agriculture and *\f^t*~ 

 Gardening, 4to, 1800. " A vast field of treasured observa- 

 tion and scientific literature." 



3. The Botanic Garden. 



Lord Byron, and others, have been severe on this poem. 

 The lines, however, on the soldier's wife and infants, after 

 watching the battle of Minden those animated ones to Mr. 

 Howard or when the mother, during the plague in London, 

 commits her children to the grave, 



the poor, could only be equalled by his friendly hospitality and kind feel- 

 ing to the more affluent in his neighbourhood : 



Thy works, and alms, and all thy good endeavour, 

 Follow thee up to joy and Hiss for ever. 



Miss Seward thus concludes one of her letters to him : " I wish none 

 were permitted to enter the lists of criticism but those who feel poetic 

 beauty as keenly as yourself, and who have the same generous desire that 

 others should feel it." I mention Mr. Clive with gratitude, from a recol- 

 lection of kindnesses received from him at a very early period of my life, 

 and which were of such a nature, as could not fail to animate the mind of 

 a young man to studious exertions. Archdeacon Plimley (now the truly 

 venerable Archdeacon Corbet, and who has been so long an honour to his 

 native county), in his Agricultural Survey of Shropshire, respectfully intro- 

 duces Mr. Clive's name ; and when he addressed his charge to the diocese 

 of Hereford, in 1793, one really cannot but apply to Mr. Clive, what he 

 so eloquently enforces in that charge to each clergyman : " to cultivate a 

 pure spirit within their own bosoms ; to be in every instance the right-hand 

 neighbour to each parishioner ; their private adviser, their public monitor, 

 their example in Christian conduct, their joy in health, their consolation in 

 sickness." In the same vault with Mr. Archdeacon Clive, lies buried Robert 



