Come golden hours, to fancy dear, When folded to her fnowy breast. Charm each long hoar till morning light. Shall fwim before thefe mournful eyes, Heaves, painful heaves, long lab'ring fighs: O then her voice of love divine, Shall footh to peace my trembling breast ; In life with love and Delia bleft. The diftin&tion paid to this pocm, may, perhaps, serve to convince the Author where his walk lies. Art. 17. The Oxonian; a Poem, in Imitation of the Splendid Shilling. By the Author of the School Boy. 4to. I s. Kearfly, &c. 1778. This imitator of John Phillips follows him pretty close in his ftyle, but his droll fpirit, his humour generally, efcapes him. As to the character itself, it will fit fuitably enough upon most of those young men in both our univerfities, who hire horfes, make excurfions, keep girls, find empty pockets, and abuse old Square Toes, for not making more remittances. L L. Art. 18. An Elegy in a Riding House, in Imitation of Virgil's firft Paftoral. 4to. I S. Robfon. 1778. Very elegant, and not unworthy of Mr. Be-g-r. Art. 19. The Seducers; a Poem; dedicated to the Right Hon. the Earl of Mansfield. 4to. 2s. 6d. Kearfly. 1778. Trash, trash, miferable trash! The bellman in broad day-light! L. Art. 20. The Patriot Vifion; a Poem; dedicated to the Memory of the Earl of Chatham. 4to. 2s. 6d. Bew. 1778. This is a pleafant fellow, and bids fair for affording us a little amufement. Our Readers may remember that when, on the ceffation of the Duke of Marlborough's wars, hoftages were propofed to be received from and fent to France, Dennis, who had written feveral fquibs against the French nation, applied to the Duke that he might not be fent as an hoftage, for that as he had done that people fo much mischief, he could not hope for very favourable treatment. The Duke, fmiling at the man's felf importance, answered, Mr. Dennis, I have done the French almost as much mischief as you, and yet I am not afraid of being fent an hoftage. Go in peace.' This worthy Gentleman, upon principles the moft patriotic ima ginable, declares, in a previous advertisement, that upon the death of Lord Chatham he had put fpurs to his Mufe, and haftily printed and published his poem, left government fhould, in the mean time, change its meafures, and his verfes lofe their intended effect.' We We have heard of a Spanish poet who had written a long compofition on the Efcurial, but before it was printed, the King died. The Poet imputed his Prince's death to his own delay, alledging that if his verfes had been published in due time, they would have faved his life. On this idea, he retired into a monaftery, and did penance for the remainder of his days. Enthufiafm, whether civil or religious, almost always occafions a diffipation of thought. We are not, therefore, to wonder if we meet with inftances of this kind in the poem before us. The Poet, in the first place, reprefents himself as Randing by moonlight on the shore of the isle of Wight: That melancholy night in penfive mood, Upon the fea-beat ftrand the Poet flood. There is fome impropriety here, because he would, in a melancholy night, have been more characteristically reprefented as lying than as ftanding. In the next lines we read that Cannons, thund'ring through the wat'ry fhore, Now these cannons that thusdered through the shore muft neceffarily have been the artillery of Old Nick; for they must have come from under ground, and have burst the interior parts of Madam Vecta. Were Longinus living, to give a new edition of his Critique on the Sublime, he could not fail to take notice of the following couplet; nay, Edmund Burke could have no objection to the third word in the first line: Within it, charioting, fublimely rode The gorgeous image of the Pythian god. This Pythian god leads the bard of the Patriot Vifion to a gate with an infcription which he finds a tax upon his modefty, and which puts him to the blush : The poet reads, and blushes as he reads, Here is an affembly of departed British worthies, to whom Apollo fays, Be Britons every particle. That is, they must fight tooth and nail against Jupiter Feretrius, for, gone into his dominions, they could have no one elfe to contend with. It is the privilege of wits glorioufly to offend, fo we find our Author directing our eye to the found of mufic: The harps were ready-lo! the thrilling ftrain. Inftant refounds In confequence of this mufic vifible, we find what is more extraordinary, Sereneft paffions rife. It is fuppofed that Pope and his affociates fabricated most of the verfes in the treatife on the Bathos; among the reft the following lines; And thou, Dalhoufy, the great god of war, Had this poem been published at that time, they might have found a fupply in the following couplet: Oh! Edward, Henry! But aufpicious heav'n To fave the blufhing ftate has Marlborough giv'n. This great man however is treated very cavalierly; for he is reprefented as making war like a Clare-market butcher with the original arms of marrowbones and cleavers: He shot fire through the marrow of his men. Apollo, who by the bye, is ufed very ill through the whole poem, At first with awe the Mufes touch their lyres, In the next couplet, these Muses, though virgins, are defcribed as Then, then fuch numbers roll upon the air, That they feem lab'ring with the Titan war. And a hard time of it they must have had, confidering that they must each of them have been brought to bed of a giant, at least three hundred yards high. Their fcreams and outcries on fuch an occafion must have been dreadful; fo terrible indeed they were, that Apollo was obliged to call to order: Be filent, thunders Phoebus through the fane. Thefe on their fhields the Gallic lily wore, The lion bore they, lion-like their air, And lion-like they rush, they ramp, they tear; The lily-bearers quake, and lofe the day for fear. น. Art. 21. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, to which are added an Effay upon his Language and Verfification; an introductory. Difcourfe and Notes. Vol. V. Containing a Gloffary. 8vo. 3 s. 6d. boards. Payne. 1778. Mr. Tyrwhitt has here made the father of English poetry intelli gible to his youngest children. It is a very ufeful and valuable appendix to his edition of Chaucer. L. Art. 22. The Pythian, Nemean, and Ijihmian Odes of Pindar, tranflated into English Verse, with critical and explanatory Remarks; to which are prefixed Obfervations on his Life and Writ ings, Conjectures on the Era, wherein the Grecian Games concluded, and an Ode to the Genius of Pindar *. 4to. 12 S. Dodfley. 1778. If to imitate l'indar be difficult almoft to a proverb, to translate him must be much more fo-to transfuse those beauties which so frequently depend upon a peculiar coincidence of words, or those fublime paffages which frequently owe their very exiflence to happy We learn from the fonnet prefixed, and addressed to Mrs. Montagu, that the tranflator is Mr. Edward Barnaby Greene. modes modes of expreffion, if it feldom lies within the analogy of languages, to effect fomething like it, requires the greateft powers and the moft diftinguished tafte and genius. We are forry to fay that we cannot flatter this writer on being in poffeffion of either. He has often appeared upon the literary turf, and hath as often loft his diftance. But his Ifthmian courfer is quite too much for his manage. Without a metaphor, he has all the obfcurity of the Greek poet, and in fome paffages, if poffible, more. His attempts at the fublime are like thofe of a fhepherd, who, endeavouring to climb fome very fleep mountain, flides down when he is half way up. Art. 23. MICKLE's Tranflation of the LUSIAD of CAMOENS We have already † given, from the first edition, an ample account L.. Intended, to roaze the dormant fpirit of my countrymen,'— fays the Author; but does not his very defign imply a groundless charge against his gallant countrymen? Let the dormant spirit of France answer this question. Art. 25. Tranflations of fome Odes and Epiftles of Horace. The Anfwer of Proteus to Ariftaæus, in Virgil's fourth Georgic. Pharaoh's Overthrow, or a poetical Paraphrafe on the 14th and 15th Chapters of Exodus. And two original Poems. By John Gray. 8vo. 1 s. 6d. Dundee printed. 1778. L. As the Author has had the politenefs to intreat our remarks, in a manufcript addrefs, we fhall indulge him with the favour of faying nothing more, than that his poems are indeed very remarkable. L.. Art. 26. An Elegy on the Death of Samuel Foote, Efq. By BosCHERECCIO. 4to. I s. 6d. Kearily. 1778. A droll thing, certainly written by Foote himself.-Tell us, friend Type, did you not receive the copy by the last Infernal packet, from the Styx to the Thames? Do you, gentlemen, require a printer to difcover his author?' Your pardon Mr Type! There is added an Ode on his Majesty's Birth-day, which is as queer as the Elegy: • Examples of conjugal bliss, Of concord and joy, without ftrife; The title-page is decorated with a pretty design by Bartolozzi. † Vid. Rev. Vol. liv, and lv. X 4 Art. Art. 27. Captain Parolles at Minden: a rough Sketch for the Royal Academy. Moft refpectfully dedicated to Temple Luttrell, Efq; in Honour of his fpirited Speech on the 26th of May laft. By the Author of Royal Perfeverance, Tyranny the worst Taxation, Epifle to L-d M-f-d, &c. 4to. I s. 6d. Bew, 1778. Let this rough antagonist of Lord G G e at once give our Readers a specimen of his fatirical frain, and afk himself a proper question: Enter Captain PAROLLES. PAR. But why fo much of cowardice fweet Hal* ! For ever harping in the fame dull strain Jack Falstaff ne'er was plagued like poor Gne.? Art. 28. Rofe and Colin, a Comic Opera. Performed at the 1778. Two French dishes, of no extraordinary relish in themselves, rondered still more infipid by an English cook. POLITICAL. c. Art. 30. An authentic Account of the Part taken by the late Earl of Chatham in a Tranfaction which passed in the beginning of the Year 1778. 4to. 6d. Almon. The famous correfpondence with which the news-papers have been ately fo replete; and in which Sir James Wright and Dr. Addington figure with no fmall diftinction. Art. 31. A Plan of internal Defence, in the prefent Crifis. 8vo. I s. Shatwell. 1778. Founded on the expected, probable, effects of the embodied militia; with propofals, calculations, &c. The goblin invafion, and the expence of war, are the two great arguments of the partizans of peace and of France (for they are the fame at present) to induce us to put up with fhame and dishonour. To difarm this goblin of its terrors, and by laying down an efficient Plan of Internal Defence at a fmall expence; to fet our navy at liberty to hurl its thunders on our enemies, and at the fame time to obviate as far as poflible every other objection to war, by leaving fufficient funds for its fupport, is the aim of the present tract.' MILITARY. Art. 32. A Digeft of the Militia Laws. By Richard Burn, LL. D. 12mo. 2 s. Cadell. 1778. At a time when our militia are embodied and difciplined, in order to qualify them for actual service, (fhould the infolence of our ene mies render it neceffary) a methodical abridgment of the militia laws must be highly agreeable to all who have any immediate concern in this conftitutional military establishment for the protection of In the phrase of Falstaff. our |