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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1898)
THE BATTALION. 9 fended and inculcated by his writings. His remains were interred in West Minster abbey. As a writer few have done such essential service to their country by fixing its language and regulating its morality. In his person he was large, robust and unweildy; in his dress he was singular and slovenly; in his conversation, positive and impatient of contradiction. But with all his singulari ties he had an excellent heart, full cf tenderness and com passion, and his actions were the result of principle. The following plain-spoken epitaph on Dr. Samuel John son was written by Soame Jenyus. It gives in a few words, by no means an untrue character of the great lexicographer: “Here lies poor Johnson, reader have a care; Tread lightly, lest you rouse a sleeping bear. Tieligious, moral, generous and humane He was, but self-sufficient, rude and vain; Ill-bred, and over-bearing in dispute, A scholar, a Christian and a brute. Would you know all his wiadom and his folly, His actions, sayings, mirth and melancholly, Boswell and Throle, retailers of his wit, Will tell you how he wrote, talked, coughed and spit.'’ Poetical Passages in The Tempest. W. F. H. G AN ESSAY WRITFEN WHILE STUDYING THE PLAY. HOUGH the length of time covered in this play is shorter I than in any of Shakespeare’s other works, which neces sarily causes the scenes to change rapidly and the story to be told in as vivid a style as possible, there are many passages in it which show his rare gifts of imagination and his won derful musical flow of language. The general tone of the play is bright, energetic and sparkling, running on from the