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care vanished when he entered his own house.
The sketch which he drew of his own idea OF
what WoRDswoRTH has since designated as
"a perfect woman, nobly planned.
To warm, comfort and commands:
And yet n spirit, still and hrinht
With something Of an angel light"
remains among his writings as a noble tribute to
his own vile, as well a oeau'ifui evidence of
the domestic virtues Of one oi The greatest mel
of modern times. Another distinguished orna.
ment of British genius, SIR JAMES Macintosh
has left a testimonial equally eloquent ard more
touching. The following euloglum of decea.
sed wife, could not proceed but from an ingen.
ious heart, filed with good affections, and from
a mind endowed with the best qualities Of man.
ly worth, We find it in the Boston TRANSCRIPT,
"a journal of much excellence:
"Allow me, in justice 10 her memory" writes
Sir James, "to tell you what she was, aud what
owed her. was guided in my c!iolce only BY
the blind affections OF my youth, and m ght have
formed conneXion in which a shortened pas.
sion would have been followed by repentance
and disgust; but found an intelligent ccmpan.
ion, a tender friend, prudent noni,ress, the
most faithful wife, and as dear mother as ever
children had the misfortune to lose. Had mar
RED woman who was easy or glddy enough To
be infected by my impru1ence, or had rudey
attempted to correct it, should in either case
have been irretrevably ruined !; a fortune in Ell.
Their case would, with my habits, have been
ly shorter cut TO destruction. But met NO.
man who, by the tender management Of my
weakness. gradually corrected the most pernc.
ious of them, and rescued me from the dvu!ln-
ION Of degraded and ruinous vice.
"i5hc became prudent from affection; and
though of the most e ierous nature, she was
tau hi economy aud hu!aly by her love for me.
La, and, ,t ,ia
ellie preserved order in my af,lrs, from The cares
of which she relieved me she gen'l, reclaim.
ed me from sspaton; she propped my irreso-
| Lutte nature she urged my Incidence to all the
exerinns which have been useful and cedilab.e
To me and she was perpc'uaily at hand 70 adj
monise my hee'llessness and imprnvdencc. To
| her | owe that an not a ruined outcast to her
whatever shall be. III her solici'ude for my
| interest she never tor a moment forgot my feel
ings and my character. Even in her occas ona
Recommendation which but too often gave just
cause (woud to God that could recall those
monentsD she had no sullenness or acrimony
Her feelings were warm and 'inpetuous; bu
she was placable, tender, and con-tan'.-Sht
united The most tender prudence with the mos
generous and guiltless nature, with spirit tina
dsdains the shadow of meanness, and with III
kindness and most honest heart
"Such was she whom have lost and hav
lost her when her excellent natural sense va
rapidly improving, after eight years OF slruggl
and distress had bound us fast together, an
moulded our tempers to each other when
knowledge of her worth had refined my youth
fnl love into friendship, before age had deprive
ii of much Of its original ardor. | lot her, alas
(the choice Of my youth. and the partner of m
msfnrunes at moment when had the prus
per' o: her sharing my better days. To evpec
that any hing on this side OF the grave can max
1t w, would be IN vain and deusve expectation
II had list the giddv and lhough,lcss conpan
ion ri prosperity, the world could e'sly repai
the lnss but have lost he faithful and ,enle
partner Of my m sfnr,unes and my only cnnso
la,ion is in that Being under whose severe an
pa'ernal clias,sement am cut down to tn
ground"