5. Bagnall .

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE

OF

DR. DARWIN,

CHIEFLY DURING HIS RESIDENCE AT LICHFIELD,

WITH

ANECDOTES OF HIS FRIENDS,

AND

CRITICISMS ON HIS WRITINGS.

BY ANNA SEWARD.

MOT

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT.

1804.

210. e. 167.

TO THE

RIGHT HONORABLE

THE EARL OF CARLISLE.

MY LORD,

WHERE hereditary honors, fplendid fortune, and perfonal graces, have fecured, from the firft dawn of youth, the external respect and gratifying attention of the world, it is feldom found that their poffeffor has emulously and fedulously diftilled the fweetness from the claffic fountains. There is no flattery in obferving, that of thofe rare inftances your LordShip is confpicuously one. Such energetic induftry involves a fuperior claim to eftimation than where it has appeared the only means by which native talent and laudable ambition could have pierced the mifts of obfcurity.

You, Sir, have nobly chofen to adorn your rank, inftead of indolently leaning upon it's inherent diftinction, or even fatisfying yourself