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Acknowledgment
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DIED, August 16, 1826.
In this town, on Wednesday night last,
Hon. ROYALL TYLER, Esq. aged 66.
Judge Tyler was a native of Boston, and
commenced his publick life as Aid-de-camp
to Gen. Lincoln, who commanded the army
that suppressed the rebellion of Shays, in
1786-7. During that campaign, Mr. Tyler
was charged by Gen. Lincoln with a special
mission to the government of Vermont, then
administered by the Father of this State, the
venerable Thomas Chittenden. Upon that
occasion Mr. T. was permitted to address the
Legislature of this State, then in session at
Bennington, and displayed for the first time
to “Green Mountain Boys” the charms of
that classical eloquence which has since given
great celebrity to his name. The circumstances
of this mission are recorded in Judge
Minot's elegant history of the Rebellion in
Massachusetts. About four years afterwards
Mr. Tyler removed to Vermont, and very
soon became one of our most distinguished
advocates. He was an assistant Judge of the
Supreme Court six years, and Chief Judge of
the same Court six years more. As a man
of genius, a poet, an orator, a civilian, an
erudite and accomplished scholar, and a gentleman
of the most elegant and endearing
manners in social and domestic life, his memory
will long be cherished with affection and
respect, by the companions of his youth in
Massachusetts, and those of his mature and
declining years in Vermont. “The Algerine
Captive,” unquestionably one of the most original
and brilliant productions of this generation,
will for ever secure him a high rank
among American writers, and the future admirers
of his beautiful poems will “give his
name in charge to the sweet lyre.”
To his amiable surviving widow, and a numerous
family of children, who are now indeed
the sons and daughters of sorrow, and
who, while they have been led by parental
care along the elegant paths of literature,
have also been taught that the ways of virtue
are ways of pleasantness and all her paths
peace, an irreparable loss admits those consolations
only which well instructed and pious
minds never fail to derive from the sacred
truths and sublime prospects of our holy religion.
Alas! the flowers which all our gardens yield,
Even the grass that decks the summer field,
Which dead in wintry sepulchres appear,
Revive in spring, and bloom another year:
But ah! the great, the brave, the learn'd, the wise,
Soon as the hand of death has clos'd their eyes,
In tombs forgotten lie, no suns restore,
They sleep in silent graves, to wake no more,
Till that dread hour, when the loud trump shall call
Th' unnumber'd flock of him who died for ALL—
That Spring will come---that Shepherd reign on high---
All knees shall bow---all tongues shall praise---one cry
Of joy shall fill all worlds---and Death itself shall die.
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THE
SKETCH BOOK
OF
GEOFFREY CRAYON, Gent.
No. I.
“I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator of
other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play their parts; which methinks
are diversely presented unto me, as from a common theatre or scene.”
Burton
NEW-YORK:
PRINTED BY C. S. VAN WINKLE,
No. 101 Greenwich-street.
1819.
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Southern District of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifteenth day of May, in
the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of
America, C. S. Van Winkle, of the said district, hath deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor,
in the words following, to wit:
“The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. No. I. `I have
no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere spectator
of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they play
their parts; which methinks are diversely presented unto me, as from
a common theatre or scene.'—Burton.”
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled
“An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of
“maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such co
“pies, during the times therein mentioned;” and also, to an act, entitled,
“An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for the encou
“ragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and
“books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the
“times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts
“of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.”
JAMES DILL,
Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.
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The following writings are published on experiment;
should they please, they may be followed by others.
The writer will have to contend with some disadvantages.
He is unsettled in his abode, subject to interruptions,
and has his share of cares and vicissitudes. He
cannot, therefore, promise a regular plan, nor regular
periods of publication. Should he be encouraged to
proceed, much time may elapse between the appearance
of his numbers; and their size must depend on the materials
he has on hand. His writings will partake of
the fluctuations of his own thoughts and feelings; sometimes
treating of scenes before him, sometimes of others
purely imaginary, and sometimes wandering back with
his recollections to his native country. He will not be
able to give them that tranquil attention necessary to
finished composition; and as they must be transmitted
across the Atlantic for publication, he must trust to
others to correct the frequent errors of the press.
Should his writings, however, with all their
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imperfections, be well received, he cannot conceal that it would
be a source of the purest gratification; for though he
does not aspire to those high honours that are the rewards
of loftier intellects; yet it is the dearest wish of
his heart to have a secure and cherished, though humble,
corner in the good opinions and kind feelings of
his countrymen.
London, 1819.
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 [1819], The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, gent. [Pseud], volume 1 (C. S. Van Winkle, New York) [word count] [eaf214v1].
