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Herod's rich palm-tree groves; why the other, rich and uneasy, from the rifing of the light to the evening fhade fubdues his woodland with fire and steel: our attendant genius beft knows, who governs the planet of our nativity, the divinity that prefides over human nature, who dies with each individual, of various complexion, white and black.

I'll freely use, and take out from my moderate ftock, as much as my exigence demands: nor will I be under any apprehenfions of what opinion my heir fhall be concerning me, when he fhall find I have left him no more than I had given me. And yet I, the fame man, shall be inclined to know how far an open and chearful perfon differs from a debauchee, and how greatly the economist differs from the mifer. For there is a great distinction, whether you throw away your money in a prodigal manner, or make an entertainment without grudging, nor toil to accumulate more; or rather, as formerly in + Minerva's holidays, when a school boy, you enjoy by starts the short and pleasant vacation.

Let fordid poverty be far, very far away. I, whether carried in a large or small veffel; let me be borne uniform and the fame. I am not indeed wafted with fwelling fail before the north wind blowing fair : however I do not bear my courfe of life against the adverse fouth. În force, genius, figure, virtue, ftation, eftate, the last of the first-rate, yet still before thofe of the last.

You are not covetous, you fay :-Go to.-What then? Have the rest of your vices fled from you together with this? Is your breaft free from vain ambition? Is it void of the seat of death, and free from anger? Can you laugh at dreams, magic terrors, wonders, witches, nocturnal goblins, and Theffalian prodigies? Do you number your birth-days with a grateful mind? Are you forgiving to your friends?

* Judea was famous for its woods of palm, from whence Herod derived a vaft revenue.

+ This feflival was celebrated from the 19th to the 23d of March.

Lenior et melior fis accedente fenecta?
(a) Quid te exemta juvat fpinis de pluribus una?
Vivere fi recte nefcis, decede peritis.
Lufifti fatis, edifti fatis, atque bibisti:

Tempus abire tibi eft: ne potum largius æquo
Rideat et pulfet (b) lasciva decentius ætas.

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Q. HORA

Do you grow milder and better as old age approaches? What profits you only one thorn eradicated out of many If you do not know how to live in a right manner, make way for thofe that do. You have play'd enough, eat and drank enough: 'tis time for you to walk off: left, having drank too plentifully, that age which plays the wanton with more propriety, fhould ridicule and beat you off the ftage,

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UMANO capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere fi velit, et (a) varias inducere plumas, Undique collatis (6) membris, ut turpiter atrum

(a) Varias inducere pennas.

(b) Membris; aut turpiter atrum. Sanad.

Definat

*Horace, in this celebrated didactic poem, is greatly obliged to Aria ftotle's art of poetry, which, however, he has improved upon, notwithStanding Scaliger calls it an art written without art. Mr. Pope thinks this want of method a beauty:

Horace ftill charms with graceful negligence,
And without method talks us into fenfe;

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I horfes neck to a human head, and fpread a vaF a painter fhould form a defign of uniting a riety of plumage over limbs of different animals taken from every part of nature, so that what is a beautiful

Will like a friend familiarly convey

The trueft notions in the easiest way.

Mr. Hurd, in his commentary, endeavours to point out a method, that is actually obferved. "The subject of this piece being, as I fuppofe, one, "vix, the ftate of the Roman drama, and common Sense requiring,

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even in the freeft forms of compofition, fome kind of method, the in"telligent reader will not be furprized to find the pot profecuting his "fubject in a regular well-ordered plan."

+Pifo the father and his two fons, fome of the moft illuftrious perfonages in Rome, eminent for learning themselves, and great encouragers of it in others.

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