The last and the fondest, I ever shall shed.

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MOSSOP, a cotempory of GARRICK, famous for his performance of Zanga, in YOUNG's tragedy of the Revenge.

THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A COLLEGE EXAMINATION.

High in the midst surrounded by his peers,

M—ns—l his ample front sublime uprears;

Plac'd on his chair of state, he seems a God,

While Sophs and Freshmen, tremble at his nod.

Whilst all around sit wrapt in speechless gloom,

His voice in thunder shakes the sounding dome;

Denouncing dire reproach, to luckless fools,

Unskill'd to plod in mathematic rules.

Happy the youth! in Euclid's axioms tried,

Though little vers'd in any art beside;

Who with scarce sense to pen an English letter,

Yet with precision, scans an attic metre.

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What! though he knows not how his fathers bled,

When civil discord pil'd the fields with dead,

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