And when from this proud terrace he surveys
Slow Thames devolving his majestic maze,
(Now lost on the horizon's verge, now seen
Winding through lawns, and woods, and pastures green,)
May he reflect upon the waves that roll,
Bearing a nation's wealth from pole to pole,
And feel, (ambition's proudest boast above,)
A KING'S BEST GLORY IS HIS COUNTRY'S LOVE!

The range of cresting towers has a double interest, whilst we think of
gorgeous dames and barons bold, of Lely and Vandyke's beauties, and gay,
and gallant, and accomplished cavaliers like Surrey. And who ever sat in
the stalls at St. George's chapel, without feeling the impression, on
looking at the illustrious names, that here the royal and ennobled
knights, through so many generations, sat each installed, whilst arms,
and crests, and banners, glittered over the same seat?--_Bowles's
History of Bremhill_.

[8] The author had been chaplain to the Prince Regent.

[9] Surrey's Poems.

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THE THREE TEACHERS.


To my question, how he could, at his age, have mastered so many
attainments, his reply was, that with his three teachers, "every thing