Household Words, 1853, Vol. 8

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Excerpt from Household Words, 1853, Vol. 8: A Weekly JournalFrancis Colman, in seventeen hundred and thirty-three, father and dfather of the two George Co e dramatists, both buried here also. E was sometime British Minister at the Court of Tuscany. The dramatic propensity of the family ap pears to have conunenced with this gentle man, who interested himself in Operatic affairs, and wrote the words of Handel's Ariadne in Naxos. He was an intimate friend of Gay.Dr. John Jortin, in the year seventeen hundred and set aged seventy-one. Author of the Life 0 Erasmus, an elegant scholar, critic, and theologian. He lies in the churchyard under a ¿at stone, which is sur rounded with iron rails, and brie¿y inscribed with his name, age, and the day on which he ceased to be mortal (mortalis cue desz'it). Amo the improvements which the autho tities ere are making, we trust we shall see these good words rescued from the dirt which has obscured them. There were some curious inconsistencies in Jortin. He was a good natured man, with unattractive manners, was a writer of el t sermons, which he read very badly, an was always intimating that he ought to have had greater preferment in the Church, mafih he was suspected, not unreasonably, of ering with it on some points held essential to orthodoxy. His Life was written by Dr. Disney, the Unitarian. The doctor's book ought to have been more amusing, considering that Jortin had the re utation of bein a wit.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.