SAMUEL RICHARDSON. 91 without copy, some portions of his "Pamela" and "Clarissa Harlowe." Richardson died on the 4th of July, 1761, at the age of seventy-two. He was a man of much benevolence and moral worth, and was constantly visited by Johnson, Hogarth, Dr. Young, and other eminent men of the day; and by Mrs. Barbauld, when a playful child. Though little read at the present time, the works of Richardson were once exceedingly popular, in proof of which Sir John Herschel adduces the following record :"I recollect an anecdote told me by a late highly respectable inhabitant of Windsor, as a fact which he could personally testify to, having occurred in a village where he resided several years, and where he actually was at the time it took place. The blacksmith of the village had got hold of Richardson's novel of Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded,' and used to read it aloud in the long summer evenings, seated on his anvil, and never failed to have a large and attentive audience. It is a pretty long-winded book, but their patience was fully a match for the author's prolixity, and they fairly listened to all. At length, when the happy turn of fortune arrived which brings the hero and heroine together, and sets them living long and happily, according to the most approved rules, the congregation was so delighted as to raise a great shout, and, procuring the church keys, actually set the parish bells a ringing!" Crossing Fleet-street, and wending our way through Shoe Lane, we reach ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN. In the survey made in the reign of the Conqueror Holborn is specified as a village Osulvestane (Ossulston), and is Reference is made to the church how long it had existed previou rectory of St. Andrew's was at o abbots of Bermondsey, but was dissolution of the religious hous was then bestowed upon the L Wriothesley, Earl of Southampto descended by marriage to the Duk Hacket and Stillingfleet, and 1 found in the list of its rectors. rebuilt in 1686, under the superin pher Wren. St. Andrew's has been called "t the sons of Song connected with dramatic poet, a late contemporary to have been parish-clerk here, but the register. Richard Savage was 18th, 1696-7. In the churchyar poet, the gravestone bearing a to by him on his father. And the "August 28th, 1770, William (Th "the poet," added by a later hand ground of the workhouse in Shoe Farringdon Market. * One Sunday, while Hacket was read St. Andrew's, a soldier of the Earl of 1 pistol to his breast, and commanded hin at all terrified, Hacket said he would do he might do what became a soldier! He THOMAS CHATTERTON. 93 THOMAS CHATTERTON. The "marvellous boy" was born at Bristol in November, 1752, his father being the sexton at the church of St. Mary Redcliff in that city. Eight years after his birth he was admitted into Colston's Blue-coat School, and soon after began to present to the world that which puzzled the learned and most acute. Day after day did he produce poems of considerable length and great beauty, the obsolete spelling and the diffuse, quaint style bearing the stamp of a bygone age. He occasionally contributed to newspapers and magazines under assumed names. The obscure Bristol boy saw no attraction in his own name, and therefore were his early productions given to the world as the emanations of a monk named Rowley, these poems exhibiting a grandeur of conception with a boldness and sweetness combined. Chatterton was at length taken into the office of a scrivener, which he was compelled to leave in consequence of the discovery of the extraordinary document known as his "Will," and which is still preserved. He was now in his seventeenth year, and quitted Bristol for London, full of high expectation. Here he managed to procure, for a short time, a precarious existence by his pen, writing political and satirical articles, burlettas for Vauxhall, and sermons for clergymen! But his hopes soon passed away; he was abused and savagely attacked for his "Rowley Poems;" he had passed five months in the metropolis, and the reward of severe toil and patient endurance was to be found in the frequent lack of brea were in Brook-street, Holborn, three days was a crust of dry But August, 1770, brought this close. Heart-sick of the world a he expended the last penny he p of arsenic, and was found on his lacking at the time three month We have no "storied urn" to d his sepulture, for above the pa Chatterton no stone was placed. honour has been given by the mo lauded him; Shelley wrote of his ridge indited to him a noble n "Endymion" to his memory; and atonement for the neglect of 1 sented him with a monument sev death. We conclude our brief youth by reciting a little poem, w upon the death of Keats, and the of his talents : "We heed thee not!-give o' Said the World, as the P The wealth of his soul and In burning thought and w 'Give o'er, gi "Then a darkness fell on the An omen of death and do When soon, in the shado Said the World, 'we will build a throne For aye, for aye!' "Amen to that loving deed, O World! With thy bitter scorn for the beating heart, But we have to search for a player, and in the churchyard we find the honoured grave of JOHN EMERY. This favourite actor was born at Sunderland in December, 1777, his parents being members of the histrionic profession. Though intended for a musician, he himself preferred the pursuit adopted by his parents, and became an actor. At Sheffield, in 1790, he ventured upon a song on the occasion of his father's benefit; and three years later he obtained an engagement at the Brighton Theatre, where he appended to his duties as a comedian those of a scene-painter. Emery was next engaged by the warm-hearted, but eccentric Tate Wilkinson for the York circuit, in which he continued until 1798 in this year he made his début in the metropolis, at Covent Garden, as Frank Oatlands, in Morton's Cure for the Heartache. He had at this period scarcely reached his majority, yet was his success most decisive. His subsequent career was marked with public approval, which he continued to enjoy until his death, which occurred somewhat suddenly on the 25th of July, 1822, having then |