Sonnet-"When I sit musing on the chequer'd past".. 195 Eulogy on Henry Kirke White, by Lord Byron.......... 229 Written in the Homer of Mr. H. K. White, by the same 232 On the Death of Henry Kirke White, by T. Park....... 239 Ode on the late Henry Kirke White, by Juvenis......... 244 Sonnet in Memory of Henry Kirke White, by J. G..... 245 Lines on the Death of Henry Kirke White ..... Sonnet to H. K. White, on his Poems, by G. L. C..... 247 To the Memory of Henry Kirke White, by a Lady...... 248 MEMOIR OF HENRY KIRKE WHITE. Thine, HENRY, is a deathless name on earth, Could more be ask'd, to whom might more be given? It has been said that the contrasts of light and shade are as necessary to biography as to painting, and that the character which is radiant with genius and virtue requires to be relieved by more common and opposite qualities. Though this may be true as a principle, there are many exceptions; and the life of HENRY KIRKE WHITE, whose merits were unalloyed by a single vice, is one of the most memorable. The history of his short and melancholy career, by Mr. Southey, is extremely popular; and when it is remembered that the author is one of the most distinguished of living writers, that as a biographer he is almost unrivalled, and that he had access to all the materials which exist, it would be as vain to expect that the present Memoir will contain any new facts, as it would be absurd to hope that it will be more worthy of attention on other grounds b |