**fra genius, like the Dæmon of Socrates, and

peaker se je paciples of religion and more

upon a philosophical pas

man to name is to praise; the scias

Burnet declared the wisest tema and our poet, who led the way

that came after him. dethroned from his literary serta

Aar Sir A many

contesto de most popular of authors

, has de strane is works were held in extraordinary

Aythagoras, by whom it had been coton

Plato, and this delusion affected every i srute and did

. He imagined himself to be

Addison commended his system of Ethics in the Spectator. The vanity of Hobbes, and the taste of Addison, speak powerfully in his cause.

As a scholar, he was widely and deeply read, but learning he valued only as subservient to the higher and weightier matters of wisdom and truth. He constantly asserted that piety was the only key of true knowledge, which could proceed alone out of purity of life. He rejoiced that he was no wholesale man, for he said that a little armour was sufficient, if well placed.

His prose is superior to his verse. No successful appeal can be inade from Dr. Southey's severe judgment upon the Song of the Soul. His ears were first tuned to poetry by the music of the Faery Queen, which his father often read aloud on the winter evenings : the harp of Spenser was never touched by a ruder band. But to the few who are willing to accept the grandeur of the conception for the poverty of the execution, the poems of More will not be destitute of interest. He did not wander along the Great Sea of Beauty without beholding the forms that rose from its waters; and from the intricacies of his harsh and gnarled phraseology, thoughts of grace and tenderness often come out to meet us. Mr. Campbell has compared his poetry to some strange grotto, whose gloomy labyrinths we might be curious to explore for the strange associations they excite.

More was happy in the fellowship of some excellent men, who partook of his innocence, simplicity, and enthusiasm. Of these, by far the most remarkable was, John Norris, whose few poems display no ordinary genius, and whose sermons on the Beatitudes, overflow with sensibility. His life was in harmony with his pro

egetimes remark, in reference to this unearthly * “there was something about us that knew

ourselves what we would be at." It is im. suppress a smile at the philosopher who mes us, that "Otho was pulled out of his ost of Galba." His chapter on the employ.

" Aërial People,” in the Treatise on the the Soul, is equally singular

. But

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a contemporary and opponent er berta at Hadleigh, in Suffolk, March 13,

and a liberal patron: when deprived of all his preferments by the Parliament, that Prelate welcomed him to his house, appointed him domestic chaplain, and in 1650, gave him his step-daughter in marriage: with this lady, Beaumont lived in retireinent until the Resto. ration drew him from his seclusion. He was created Doctor of Divinity in 1660, by the King's Letters, and from this time his life was prosperous and tranquil. He succeeded Dr. Pearson in the Mastership of Jesus College, in 1662, which he shortly afterwards exchanged for that of Peterhouse. In 1670, he was chosen Regius Professor of Divinity, a situation he retained till his death in 1699. He was buried in the College Chapel, where his son Charles also lies.

Beaumont has been highly commended for the excellence of his Latin style. He was, also, an artist. The pictures by the altar of Peterhouse Chapel were drawn by him in chalk and charcoal; and Carter, the Cambridge historian, thought the Wise Men's Offering, on the north side, particularly fine.

Dr. Southey has condemned Psyche to oblivion, as unreadably dull; and few students will be found armed with sufficient patience to penetrate through the dreariness of its twenty cantos. But the barren heath is intersected by many green and flowery paths, and nourished by little streams of genuine poetry. The misfortune is, that we grow weary before we find them. The poem represents the intercourse between Christ and the human spirit; and Beaumont erdeavoured to portray a soul conducted by Divine Grace and her guardian angel, through all the temptations and assaults of its earthly enemies, into the permanent bappiness of heaven. If he had restricted himself to an undeviating

wetaining

steh year, sent to Cambridge, and entered of

The love of study, which had marked bis with the propriety of his demeanour, attracted of Dr. Cosins, the master of Peterhouse.

his Bachelor's Degree, he was elected
and Tutor of bis College. The rebellion, bow.
ve him from Cambridge, and he retired to his
ice, where he forgot his persecutions in the

of his elaborate poem Psyche, which be
with astonishing rapidity. Of this work,
served that it contains a great many towers
le gathering, and that a man who has the
I wisely, will find bis account in reading it
rossessed in Bishop Wren, a sincere friend

• His own words.