ed--the "Evidences of the Truth of the New
Testament." Perhaps it may not be without effect to tell that he read
the prayers of the public Liturgy every morning to his family, and that
on Sunday evening he called his servants into the parlour and read to
them first a sermon and then prayers. Crashaw is now not the only maker
of verses to whom may be given the two venerable names of Poet and
Saint. He was very often visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they
were weary of faction and debates, used at Wickham to find books and
quiet, a decent table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham
a walk made by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham,
Lyttelton received that conviction which produced his "Dissertation on
St. Paul." These two illustrious friends had for a while listened to the
blandishments of infidelity; and when West's book was published, it was
bought by some who did not know his change of opinion, in expectation
of new objections against Christianity; and as infidels do not want
malignity, they revenged the disappointment by calling him a Methodist.

Mr. West's income was not large; and his friends endeavoured, but
without success, to obtain an augmentation. It is reported that the
education of the young Prince was offered to him, but that he required
a more extensive power of superintendence than it was thought proper to
allow him. In time, however, his revenue was improved; he lived to have
one of the lucrative clerkships of the Privy Council (1752); and Mr.
Pitt at last had it in his power to make him Treasurer of Chelsea
Hospital. He was now sufficiently rich; but wealth came too late to be
long enjoyed; nor could it secure him from the calamities of life; he
lost (1755) his only son; and the year after (March 26) a stroke of the
palsy brought to the grave one of the few poets to whom the grave might
be without its terrors.

Of his translations I have only compared the first Olympic Ode with the
original, and found my expectation surpassed, both by its elegance and
its exactness. He does not confine himself to his author's train
of stanzas; for he saw that the difference of languages required a
different mode of versification. The first strophe is eminently happy;
in the second he has a little strayed from Pindar's meaning, who says,
"If thou, my soul, wishest to speak of games, look not in the desert sky
for a planet hotter than the sun; nor shall we tell of nobler games than
thos