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The Dies Iræ.
IV.
The next verſion is that of the Rev. Franklin Johnſon, ſpoken of in the introduction and now ſubſtituted in the place of one of Dr. Coles’.
V.
This verſion is by that nobleman of whom Pope has written:
"Such was Roſcommon, not more learned than good,
Of manners generous as his noble blood:
To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known,
And every author's merit but his own."
And of whom Dryden has confeſſed:
"It was my Lord Roſcommon's eſſay on tranſlated verſe which made me uneaſy till I tried whether or no I was capable of following his rules, and of reducing the ſpeculation into practice."
And of whom Johnſon has recorded:
"At the moment in which he expired, he uttered, with an energy of voice that expreſſed
