~88~~ After passing through all the different forms at Eton, he was
removed to Cambridge; where he distinguished himself not less than at
school in trials for different literary honors.
There he became assistant tutor to Sir Peter Burrell, who then listened
to his instructions, and has not since forgotten them.
As a tutor, he was somewhat young; but the suavity of his manners took
away the comparison of equality; and his real knowledge rendered him
capable of instructing those who might be even older than himself.
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APOLLO'S VISIT TO ETON.{1}
T'other night, as Apollo was quaffing a gill
With his pupils, the Muses, from Helicon's rill,
(For all circles of rank in Parnassus agree
In preferring cold water to coffee or tea)
The discourse turned as usual on critical matters,
And the last stirring news from the kingdom of letters.
But when poets, and critics, and wits, and what not,
From Jeffery and Byron, to Stoddart and Stott,{2}
Had received their due portion of consideration,
Cried Apollo, "Pray, ladies, how goes education?
For I own my poor brain's been so muddled of late,
In transacting the greater affairs of the state;
And so long every day in the courts I've been stewing,
I've had no time to think what the children were doing.
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