"Passer du grave au doux, du sérieux au sévère.”

BOILEAU ART. POET.

"From grave to gay, from lively to severe."

......" Miscens utile dulci.".........HOR. ARS. POET.

BY A VETERAN BRITISH OFFICER,

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Printed by Thomas Wilson and Son, for the Author;

AND SOLD BY J. HATCHArd, bookselLER TO HER

MAJESTY, OPPOSITE ALBANY, PICCADILLY, LONDON; AND BY
J. AND G. TODD, STONEGATE, YORK.

1812.

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The Rev. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, A. M. F. R.S.

MEMBER OF TRINITY COLLEGE,

CAMBRIDGE,

VICAR OF HUNMANBY, IN YORKSHIRE,
&c. &c. &c.

SIR,

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