" Passer du grave au doux, du sérieux au sévère." BOILBAU ART, POET. From grave to gay, from lively to severe.” " Miscens utile dulci.”.........HOR, ARS. POET. BY A VETERAN BRITISH OFFICER. 026: : Printed by Thomas Wilson and San, for the Author ; AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO HER J. AND G. TODD, STONEGATE, YORK. 1812. TO The Rev. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, A.M. F.R.S. MEMBER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, VICAR OF HUNMANBY, IN YORKSHIRE, &c. &c. &c. SIR, IN In this Volume you will find a variety of articles, which, in proportion to their excellence, will accord with your exquisite taste; there are others, which bear the stamp of mediocrity, but which may afford amusement to many; and not a few of a still humbler description, calculated, perhaps, to awake an occasional smile on the brow of Ennui. The splendid passages, on which I have presumed to comment, you will, of course, place to the account of the great men, from whose immortal works they are extracted ; to |