TABLE OF CONTENTS. Bankruptcy and a Broken Match A Migration and a New Acquaintance. That the Humblest Fortune may grant Happiness Moses and the Green Spectacles Pleasures of Youth and Youthful Recollections The New King - Funeral of George II. Concerning a Particular Friend, and Friendship in General. In Paris again with Madame du Deffand Literary and Dramatic Criticism. Mme. de Sévigné's Letters and his Own-The American War America and the Administration. Discouraging Outlook of Affairs in America. GEORGE WHITEFIELD. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. (From the "Life of Wesley.") [ROBERT SOUTHEY: An English poet and man of letters; born at Bristol, August 12, 1774. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he met Coleridge, and formed with him the scheme of a communistic colony, on a basis called "Pantisocracy." After some travel and the study of law, he settled down to literary work at Greta Hall, Keswick. He was made poet laureate in 1813, and pensioned. His death in 1843 was caused by overwork. Besides numerous contributions to periodicals, notably to the Quarterly Review, he wrote the poems "Joan of Arc," "Thalaba," "Madoc," "The Curse of Kehama," and "Roderick," lives of Nelson, Wesley, and Bunyan, a "History of Brazil," a "History of the Peninsular War," and "The Doctor."] MULTITUDES came out on foot to meet him, and some in coaches, a mile without the city; and the people saluted and blessed him as he passed along the street. He preached about five times a week to such congregations that it was with great difficulty he could make way along the crowded aisles to the reading desk. "Some hung upon the rails of the organ loft, others climbed upon the leads of the church, and altogether made the church so hot with their breath, that the steam would fall from the pillars like drops of rain." When he preached his farewell sermon, and said to the people that perhaps they might see his face no more, high and low, young and old, burst into tears. Multitudes after the sermon followed him home weeping; the next day he was employed from seven in the morning till midnight in taking and giving spiritual advice to awaken hearers; and he left Bristol secretly in the middle of the night, to avoid the ceremony of being escorted by horsemen and coaches out of the town. |