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    One of these friends has lately referred me to Mr . Roscoe ' s edition of Pope , IX . 255 , where is the following passage : " On the publication of the first edition of his poems in 1717 , Pope presented a copy to Mr . Bethel with the following inscription :

    € < Viro antique probitate et amiciti& praedito Hugoni Bethel Munusculum Alexandri Pope . c < Te mihi junxerunt nivei sine crimine mores , Simplidtas sagax , ingenuusque pudor , Et benb nota fides , et candor frontis

    hocestse , Et studia studiis non aliena meis . " Mr . Bowles acknowledges that these verses are elegant , but thinks that Pope could not be the author , because at fourteen years he was unacquainted with Latin quantity , as appears by his writing' Malea for

    Malea : an argument by no means conclusive , when we recollect that Pope , who only began to educate himself when he was twelve years of age , was upwards of twenty-nine when this inscription was written . It is not , however , improbable , that these verses may be found in some modern writer of Latin poetry /'

    Bowles , in Vol . I . p . cviri ,, ( Memoirs , ) supposes that they may be Parnell ' s : it does not , however , appear that he had any reason to suppose them not Pope's because of his Ignorance of prosody , a 3 there is at least one , if there are not two , short

    a's made long , in the verses as both he ( Bowles ) and Roscoc have given them . Dr . Hutton ' s copy is proaodically correct ; whence I suspect that he must have found them in some

    older writer , to whom Pope also is obliged for them ; but from whom they have been quoted in the inscription to Mr . Bethel from memory , without studied attention to accuracy of quotation .

    J hat your less learned readers may not complain of quite losing this page of your Repository , I subjoin three translations of the lines in question . The first is by the friend who pointed out to me the lines in Rosdoe . * There are authorities for both . See Ainsworth .

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    To me how endear'd by thy morals re fin'd , Thy simple , sagacious , intelligent mind ; And trujlh on . thy brow which so modestly shone , And studies and duties akin to my own .

    Tlie second is by a class-fellow and friend of the deceased at the Grammar School of Newcastle , who perhaps is better acquainted than most scholars of the present day with " the neglected Latin poets , " many beautiful gems from whom he has transferred into his

    native language , to adom the pages of Blackwood ' s Magazine , in which they appear under the signature T . D . He must allow some of his friends to express their regret that any circumstances should have caused them to appear in a periodical work in which

    great talents appear to them to be perverted to the support o £ principles so much at variance with his own . The public are also indebted to him for two dramatic poems of great merit , The Italian Wife , and Babington . In his note accompanying his account of the unsuccessful result of his

    researches after the original author , and his own translation , he observes , that the last line is literally correct , for that for several years , at the head School , they had read together before the master off the same book .

    To me how dear thy blamelessness of mind , The simple modest wisdom which was thine ; Thy brow , where faith and honour were combin'd , Thy studies , which went hand in hand with mine I

    The third is by the excellent author of the discourse , to which the original lines are prefixed as a motto : by inheritance almost a brother of the deceased , his warrnly-attached fellowstudent both at Glasgow and York , and his confidential friend and

    correspondent , as to their various projects of ministerial usefulness , with their respective difficulties and encouragements , during the short period of his professional career . I lov'd , for thou wast pure as driven

    snow , Ingenuously modest , simply wise ; Faithful as truth ; of open , candid brow , And our joint studies were our mutual tics .

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    456 Latin Verses applied to the late Rev , H * Turner .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/6/