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were hastily thrown off in a small article of 

 not more than seven or eight pages, which 

 was given almost as a postscript to the 

 Edinbttrgh Review when the late Lord 

 Holland died. It was somewhat remarkable 

 that the hatchment should hardly have been 

 put up above that ancient mansion, for the 

 very last of its line, before the pulse of the 

 great historian, statesman, essayist, orator, 

 and poet also ceased to beat, and ' the frail 

 enfeebled form ' was missed from its wonted 

 seat in the old parish church of Kensington. 



" He died just before completing his fifth 

 volume of English History ; but its pre- 

 decessors will be much more than a brilliant 

 fragment, for in them the light of his genius 

 will shine for future ages upon some of 

 the stormiest and most eventful periods of 

 English history. In like manner the great 

 Dr. Arnold died at the age of forty-seven, 

 when he was within three chapters of the end 

 of his third volume of Roman History, and 

 'thirsted for Zama.' Independently of the 

 two we have named, the Peerage has had its 

 full share of mortality. Henry, Marquis of 

 Waterford, who did more by his charitable 



