The gold-headed cane . , like himself, had just taken leave ofDr. Mead: I highly esteem and love thatworthy man. His unaffected humanity andbenevolence have stifled much of that envywhich his eminence in his profession wouldotherwise have drawn out; and, indeed, Iought to speak well of his profession, for thereis no end of my kind treatment from thefaculty. They are in general the most ami-able companions and the best friends, as wellas the most learned men I know. The party now moved to a little distanceto inspect a bust of Harvey, which my masterhad lately caused to be executed by an excel-
The gold-headed cane . , like himself, had just taken leave ofDr. Mead: I highly esteem and love thatworthy man. His unaffected humanity andbenevolence have stifled much of that envywhich his eminence in his profession wouldotherwise have drawn out; and, indeed, Iought to speak well of his profession, for thereis no end of my kind treatment from thefaculty. They are in general the most ami-able companions and the best friends, as wellas the most learned men I know. The party now moved to a little distanceto inspect a bust of Harvey, which my masterhad lately caused to be executed by an excel- * This elegant villa had been recently purchased bythe poet, with part of the money he had received for histranslation of the Iliad; an enormous sum in those days,between five and six thousand pounds: but what was thatin comparison with the hundred and twenty thousandpounds which the great popular author of the presenttime has received for the various works with which he hasdelighted and instructed the world? 110 * lent hand, from an original picture in his pos-session. This bust, said Mead, I intendto present to the College, to replace in somemeasure the statue of Harvey which was and stoodand which was no doubt lost in the great fire. I havelong thought it a reproach that we should notat least possess a bust of him who, to use the erected to him during his lifetime,in the hall of our former building, Now placed in the Theatre of the College. MEAD. Ill strong and figurative language of the Latininscription, gave motion to the blood, andorigin to animals, and must ever be hailed byus Stator Perpetuus. Freind. The skill of the sculptor hasbeen succesfully employed here. The mildfeatures of the old man are well expressed,and exhibit with fidelity his candid and gentlenature. I see him now, in my minds eye,after the surrender of Oxford to the Parlia-ment, and the loss of his wardenship of Mer-ton College, in his retirement at visit paid him there by his intimat
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