An elegy on the death of the Honourable Sir William Jones: a judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal, and President of the Asiatic Society

"IN the very moment, when I was concluding the Notes to this Elegy, I received an Elegiac Poem on the same subject, by a Gentleman, whose extensive knowledge of Indian Literature, and whose acquaintance with its lamented Patron, induced me to peruse his Publication with peculiar eagerness. There is so much poetical merit in the animated and graceful tribute, which Mr. MAURICE has paid to the memory of Sir WILLIAM JONES, that, had I seen it before the completion of these Stanzas, it might have induced me to relinquish a subject preengaged by a Writer so peculiarly qualified to treat it with success. Yet the literary excellence of Sir WILLIAM JONES appears to require some kind of homage from every man of letters; and by the spirit of Mr. MAURICE'S performance, I am persuaded, that our common regard for the Character we commemorate, is so sincere and ingenuous, that we must rejoice in a multiplicity of offerings to a name so entitled to univer+sal praise."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.