The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-17 00:00:00

THE CHUR CH.

On Wednesday, the•llev. G. Wrench was notuinattat by
Wothipful Court of ..ktwistants of ''tire Haberdashers' Coupon!
to the ChtTelry of Blakeney, in Glotteistershire, vacant by d
death of the Pet. Archdeacon Sate:fort/. There were live tal
didates for the prenta4on, and the %etc" we understand, "
as follow :
Wrench
Wilms

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES OF VOSS:

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(Abraged from the Ilibliothrque Allonettle.) f
Germany has lost one of her greatest writers; the eete
brated Voss, who -contributed eo highly- to the splendeni
of the German Parnassus, is: no More,
John Henry Voss was born on -the ?ri Fefirtnd'y ,Ll 4
at Botriirretsdorfi in the .Grand Duchy of ;Nieritleheign
He was in early youth inspired with the love of leirresej
but he had obstacles to tontend with in the narrowness
his means ; his father was in a sts6ort bordering upon o.
solute poverty. Voss at last pro ed the means may
sary for devoting himself to ;readmit” stedies, 1711
he was received into the Universky Goilingenv and wl
not long in distinguishing himself among the pupils filth'
excellent institution,VlwAr as about this time that thed
was formed at Gottingen a, society of young men, whosi
names speedily acquired a just celebrity. .Voss becarael
member of this association in which shone Hoelty, whose
elegies, breathe a melancholy at once sweet and mournful
The two Counts tie Stollberg, and Millor, author of SielZ'
wart, were parties in this alliance. These young friend
met on .Saturdays, and in fine Weather, frequently in the
open air, under the-shade of some majestic oaks. In the
summer, indeed, they assembled iu a Tirden, and prolong
ed their literary meetings even till sunrise. Burger, so we'
known by his romances and ballads, and Kionstock him
self, were honorary members of this poetical. soeielY
Voss, in his Life of Hoelty, prefixed to the new edi'
tion of the poems of his friend (published at Hamburg)
in 1804), traces in an interesting manner these recoqPo
tions of his youth.
Voss lived some time at Hamburgh, and it was there
that he published a Poetical Almanack for several Yel
which was a continuation of that of Gottingen. lona-4
he was named Head-master of a school at Etitin; in 180
he Settled at Jena; and finally in 1805, upon the new er-
ganization of the University of Heidelberg,the Grand Dedie
of Baden invited Voss thither, to give the greater cele'
brity to that institution.
The poetical productions of this author we numerou
Voss knew all the riches of the German langusge, and
fol-
lowing the steps of Klopstoek, he at last decidedlYsl
seeded in naturalizing in German literature the metric
forms of Greek and Latin Prosody, and at the same 111
sliewed how easily he could overcome the difficulties°
rhyme. The character of Voss develop ed itself fetih
his poetry ; in his odes there is vigour and energy)which,
however, is not always without roughness; in his 50115:
there is a frank cordiality, and an enticing gaiety; ni
hymns a sweet and impressive piety; -but rs, above "1."
in his eclogues that the genius of Voss:shine& Anong
his compositions' of this sort may be cited " Der siebe..,ii'
zigste Geburtatag," (the seventieth birth-day.) The vhf
d'oeuvre of Voss, however, is his Louisa, a pastoral cfn''
written in hexameters. A collection of the poems or vw
appeared at Koenisberg in 1802, the last of which
tamed a treatise on prosody.
The industry of Voss is surnrising. c Gerrnati literiitat
owes to him a great many transactions, of which we ma)
Mention that of Virgil, that of a great part of the Meta
morphosis of Ovid, those of Horace, flesiod,and Orpheus
Theocritus, Aaistophanes ; but, above all, that of th'
Iliad and Odyssey.
The unwearied Voss undertook also, in confunclini
with his two sons (floury Voss, professor at fleidel
bla
btsal'
piee:lranfgr h
also thololdpi
solrofound iiBf:2germ,
whichran rinr:l,nAs
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into timeveni
nneVittglorne
00:e.
gi)st,:aahpahthvraif
merousnt
successes as a poet and philologist, devoted hits
lastV iNoisars teehr,maitnatitleed.whis
mythology of the ancients.
flio7rtrable career on the 29th
His death was as gentle a'
tlst •onvers in wall
hhoiiss life had
fi•icnd and
clhiLiptlidinn;ilo;nll\sel.eixilipliefradesleiminelajrt
Klopstock, Holt)'
Herder, ,and Schiller. His name too is inscribed on the
calendar of immortality. D. E.

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