The Table book; . elfWould make a hell of heaven—can exorciseFrom out the unbounded spirit, the quick senseOf its own sins, wrongs, sufferance, and revengeLpon itself; there is no future pangCan deal that justice on the self-condemndHe deals on his own soul. Byron. Epitaph by Dr. Lowth, late bishop olLondon, on a monument in the church oiCudesden, Oxfordshire, to the memory oihis daughter, translated from the Latin :— Dear as thou didst in modest worth excel. More dear than in a daughters name—farewell! Farewell, dear Mary—but the hour is nigh When, if Im worthy, we shall meet on high : Then s
The Table book; . elfWould make a hell of heaven—can exorciseFrom out the unbounded spirit, the quick senseOf its own sins, wrongs, sufferance, and revengeLpon itself; there is no future pangCan deal that justice on the self-condemndHe deals on his own soul. Byron. Epitaph by Dr. Lowth, late bishop olLondon, on a monument in the church oiCudesden, Oxfordshire, to the memory oihis daughter, translated from the Latin :— Dear as thou didst in modest worth excel. More dear than in a daughters name—farewell! Farewell, dear Mary—but the hour is nigh When, if Im worthy, we shall meet on high : Then shall I say, triumphant from the tomb, Gome, to thy fathers arms, dear Mary, came T INSCRIPTION From the book at Rigi, in Switzerland. Nine weary up-hill miles we sped The setting sun to see ;Sulky and grim he went to bed. Sulky and grim went we. Seven sleepless hours we past, aod (ben. The rising sun to see,Sulky and grim we rose again. Sulky aad grim rose he. Roadent Life of Mrs Siddons. m THE TABLE ANTIQUAEIAN HALL, alias WILL. WILL-BE-SO^ OF LYNN- A goose-herd m the fen-landsi next, he Be-doctord Norfolk cows ; much vext, he Turnd bookseller, and poetaster. And was a tolerable master Of title-pages, but his rhymes Were shocking, at the best of times. However, he was very honest. And now, poor fellow, he is — non est. For the Table Book. William Hall, or as he used to stylehimself, Antiquarian Hall, Will. Will-We-so, and Low-Fen-Bill-Hall, or, as hewas more generaUy termed by the public, Oil Hall, died at Lynn, in Norfolk, onthe 24th of January, 1825. From somecurious autobiographical sketches in rhyme,published by himself, in the decline of life,it appears that he was born on June 1, O. , at Willow Booth, a small island inihe fens of Lincolnshire, near HeckingtonEase, in the parish of South Kyme. Kyme, God no corn grows,Nothing but a little hay ; And the water takes it all away. His ancestors on the fathers side wereail fen slodge
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