And in my stead, all the night long,
Sing to my God a grateful song."
In the work referred to—one of the most valuable and best edited of modern days—Mr. Wilkin, when speaking of a fine passage on music in the Religio Medici (vol. ii. p. 106.), asks whether it may not have suggested to Addison the beautiful conclusion of his Hymn on the Glories of Creation:
"What tho' in solemn silence, all," &c.
This passage in Sir Thomas Browne appears forcibly to have struck the gifted author of Confessions of an English Opium-eater (see p. 106. of that work).
J. H. Markland.
Footnote 1:[(return)]
Sketch of Bishop Ken's Life, p. 107.