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Ye men of wit and social eloquence !
He was your brother, bear his ashes hence!
While powers of mind almost of boundless range,
Complete in kind, as various in their change,
While eloquence, wit, poesy, and mirth,
That humbler harmonist of care on earth,
Survive within our souls, while lives our sense
Of pride in merit's proud pre-eminence,
Long shall we seek his likeness, — long in vain,
And turn to all of him which may remain,
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man,
And broke the die-in moulding Sheridan!

Monody on the Death of Sheridan.

AMOS COTTLE.

BYRON.

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RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. Whose humor, as gay as the firefly's light, Played round every subject, and shone as it played;

Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright,

Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade;

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