sician, he added the solicitude of a friend, and the charity of a benefactor. While his hand raised the afflicted from the bed of sickness, it was extended also to provide subsistence for the indigent sufferer. He had a largeness of mind superior to any indirect or sordid views, and which often betrayed him into a zeal against the opinions and conduct of others who were less liberal or less firm than himself. Far be it from me to disguise his infirmities, which he had too much sincerity to dissemble, and too much fortitude to deny. But his warmth was the sensibility of an ardent advocate for truth against falsehood; it was the avowed prepossession of a free and honest heart against all who practised and all who palliated vice. His eminence as a scholar was not known by any ostentatious display of his literary taste or attainments, in which he excelled from his earliest years, but by the uniform encouragement of whatever could contribute to the revival, the importance, and the support, of useful and elegant learning. He saw, and often inculcated, the necessary union of science with morality, which the indolence or the ignorance of modern refinement has endeavoured to separate from each other with too much success. In connexion, therefore, with his love of literature, he was an assertor of that liberal discipline, that rational restraint, that temperate and qualified subordination of youth to age, of inexperience to authority, which, in concurrence with the illustrious founders of our establishments, he considered as the basis and security of all literary institutions. But were such sentiments in him the result of austerity or pride? So far removed was he from such an imputation, that his friendship and familiarity were solicited by none more than by young persons. They sought his society; they courted his approbation; they acquiesced in his judgment. If his admonitions were received with anxiety, it was an anxiety mixed with reverence for his wisdom, with affection for his tenderness. The frown of just reproof was sweetened by the parting smile of benignity and confidence. The candid integrity of the monitor was, at the same time, both confirmed and softened by the sympathy of a parent. His sagacity was remarkably exemplified in his discrimination of characters, even on their first appearance in these seats of Learning. Among those whom he distinguished by his preference, and who wished to repay that preference by every mark of esteem, gratitude, and attachment, we may enumerate many, whose extraordinary talents have been providentially employed in honouring and supporting the cause of God, and the interests of our country. To this short and inadequate representa→ tion of his more conspicuous qualities, of which the most prominent feature was benevolence of temper, combined with a clear and decisive understanding, permit me to add one testimony of a more private and personal observation, but which a pious justice to his memory forbids me to suppress. As he approached that hour in which he was summoned to appear before his Eternal Judge, conscious that man, in his best state on earth, walketh in a vain shadow, he expressed, with the most fervent humility, an aversion to hear from others, or to cherish in himself, any opinion of his past services. A very long and very vigorous life, exhausted in the dignified duties of a most laborious profession, could only suggest to him the utter inability of the heart to derive any substantial comfort from the mere retrospect of human excellence or human efforts. He seemed, in the spirit of Christian hope. to deprecate all dependence upon his own works, and to * This alludes to Mr. Pitt's offer to him of the Professorial chair, but which Dr. Glynn declined in consequence of his advanced age. For many years his tea-table was frequented by young men of the highest rank and character, who have since been raised to the first offices in Church and State. The suggestions of his experience were so tempered by the urbanity of his manners, that his society had a very visible influence upon the direction of their studies and conduct. To him, perhaps, they were indebted for much moral and literary acquisition, which has proved an ornament to themselves, and a blessing to the world. trust trust to the mercy of God alone for pardon, for peace, and for salvation." The writer of this article begs leave to conclude this tribute of respect to one whom he has long loved and revered, with the very apposite Greek quotation, inserted in the Pursuits of Literature, p. 146, note (a), 9th edit, and which he recommends as a monumental inscription over the remains of his departed friend. It is the echo of every heart that has known, and admired, and felt, the exemplary virtues of the "lov'd Iapis.” Ιατρικωτατος, φιλόδωρος, και αδωροδοκητος, φι λοπτωχος, γενναιος, νεων διορθωτης, όσιος, δικαιος, εὐσεβης, εἰς ἄκρον της παιδειας εληλακως. Dr. Glynn bequeathed to his College 6000l.; to his servant 500l.; and to his executor, the Rev. Thomas Kerrich, M. A. of Magdalen college, 5000l. He was a character of long and distinguished celebrity in the University of Cambridge, though the printed testimonies which the publick possess of his literary merit are but few. He obtained, in 1757, the Seatonian prize for a poetical Essay on the Day of Judgment, which is one of the most excellent compositions produced by that institution, and ranks with the sublime and beautiful productions of Christopher Smart on the same occasion. This essay was printed at the University-press, and afterwards in an octavo collection of these Prize Poems. Dr. Glynn interested himself much in the Chattertonian business, and is said to have been some time confined with a violent cold caught in visiting the depository of the Rowleian MSS, and to have contributed much in formation and assistance to Mr. Mathias in his learned and comprehensive essay on the subject*. There is a fine half-sheet portrait of him, engraved by Facius, 1783, after a drawing by Mr. Kerrich, now very scarce. * Of his assistance to Mr. Bryant also, on the same occasion, see vol. I. p. 672; vol. IV. P. 668. Νο |