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in 1768, when his great admirer Mr. Garrick

recited an occasional ode. In the north front a

good statue of the hard appears, leaning upon a

pillar, the classical emblem of that duration which

his compositions would experience, and pointing to

a scroll bearing the lines already quoted descriptive

of the poet, deservedly said to be one of the first

passages in his works. The pedestal beneath has

an inscription from the same rich mine of natural

sentiment and beautiful imagery most truly and

happily applied to himself as a poet:

" Take him for all in all, " We ne'er shall look upon his like again."

The great room presents another tribute to his memory a large painting of the bard by Wilson, and another good full-length portrait of Garrick by Gainsborough; both presented by Garrick in the year before lie disgraced his magnus Apollo and himself by the Jubilee. On enquiring for the birth- place of our great poet, we were not a little sur- prised to be carried through a small butcher's shop into a dirty back room; which, together with a miserable apartment above flairs, constituted the greater part of the house of his father Mr. John Shakespeare, a wool-stapler in the sixteenth cen- tury, where William was born April 23, 1564. Here are pioaJy preserved the chair in which he

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