James Squibb, was the son of Dr. Arthur Squibb, the descendant of an ancient and respectable family, whose pedigree is traced in the herald's visitations of Dorsetshire, to John Squibb of Whitchurch in that county, in the 17th Edw. IV. 1477. Dr. Squibb matriculated at Oxford in 1656, took his degree of M.A. in November, 1662, was chaplain to Colonel Bellasis's regiment about 1685, and died in 1697. As he was in distressed circumstances towards the end of his life, his son, James Squibb, was left almost destitute, and was consequently apprenticed to an upholder in 1712. In that situation he attracted the notice Comme Spea And so And That t And obham, in whose service he continued for many died at Stowe, in June, 1762. His son, James ho settled in Saville Row, London, was grandGeorge James Squibb, Esq. of Orchard Street, Square, who is the present representative of this the family. Nicolas. Groom] The steward. G. Macleane] A famous highwayman hanged the e. G. quel to the Long Story in Hakewill's History of by John Penn, Esq. and a farther Sequel to that, Laureate, H. J. Pye, Esq. With ve POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS. ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM Left unfinished by Gray. With additions by Mason, distinguished by inverted commas. (I have read something that Mason has done in finishing a half written ode of Gray. I find he will never get the better of that glare of colouring, that dazzling blaze of song,' an expression of his own, and ridiculous enough, which disfigures half his writings. V. Langhorne's Lett. to H. More, i. 23.) See Musæ Etonenses, ii. p. 176. Now the golden morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, V. 1. Sophocl. Antig. v. 103, xovolac àμépas Bλépaρov; and Dyer. Fleece, lib. iii." Grey dawn appears, the golden morn ascends." Luke. Luke. V. 3. "Vermeil cheek," see Milton. Comus, v. 749. V. 4. "Rorifera mulcens aura, Zephyrus vernas evocat herbas." Senec. Hipp. i. 11. Luke. V. 8. Half rob'd appears the hawthorn hedge, Weakly green its budding sprays." Warton. First of April, i. 180. She Till Ap The sle And li Scatter New-b Fris Forge The See Mant's note on the passage. Add Buchan. Psalm xxiii. p. 36." Quæ Veris teneri pingit amœnitas." |