He was a native of Cumberland, and was educated in the vale of Grasmere, and at Hawkshead school: his poems are little known, but they contain passages of splendid description; and the versification of his 'Vision of Alfred' is harmonious and animated.

In describing the motions of the Sylphs, that constitute the strange machinery of his Poem, he uses the following illustrative simile: -- 'Glancing from their plumes A changeful light the azure vault illumes.
Less varying hues beneath the Pole adorn The streamy glories of the Boreal morn, That wavering to and fro their radiance shed On Bothnia's gulf with glassy ice o'erspread, Where the lone native, as he homeward glides, On polished sandals o'er the imprisoned tides, And still the balance of his frame preserves, Wheeled on alternate foot in lengthening curves, Sees at a glance, above him and below, Two rival heavens with equal splendour glow.
Sphered in the centre of the world he seems; For all around with soft effulgence gleams; Stars, moons, and meteors, ray opposed to ray, And solemn midnight pours the blaze of day.' He was a man of ardent feeling, and his faculties of mind, particularly his memory, were extraordinary.

Brief notices of his life ought to find a place in the History of Westmoreland.
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'_Return' and 'Seathwaite Chapel_.' [Sonnets XVII.

and XVIII.] The EAGLE requires a large domain for its support: but several pairs, not many years ago, were constantly resident in this country, building their nests in the steeps of Borrowdale, Wastdale, Ennerdale, and on the eastern side of Helvellyn.