Delightful Abs-court, if its fields afford Their fruits to you, confeffes you its lord: 241 235 All Worldly's hens, nay partridge, fold to town, ▾ Heathcote himself, and fuch large-acred men, Yet these are Weights, who fondly call their own Abhor, a Perpetuity should stand: Estates have wings, and hang in Fortune's pow'r * Loose on the point of ev'ry wav'ring hour. Ready, by force, or of your own accord, 241 246 250 By fale, at least by death, to change their lord. Man? and for ever? wretch! what would'ft thou have? Heir urges heir, like wave impelling wave. All vaft poffeffions, (juft the fame the cafe Alas, my you call them Villa, Park, or Chafe,) 255 BATHURST! what will they avail? Join Cotfwood hills to Saperton's fair dale, Let rifing Granaries and Temples here, There mingled farms and pyramids appear, VOL. IV. Quid vici profunt, aut horrea? quidve Calabris Grandia cum parvis, non exorabilis auro? Gemmas, marmor, ebur, Tyrrhena figilla, tabellas, Argentum, veftes Gætulo murice tinctas, Sunt qui non habeant; eft qui non curat habere. b Cur alter fratrum ceffare, et ludere, et ungi Præferat Herodis palmetis pinguibus; alter Dives et importunus, ad umbram lucis ab ortu Silveftrem NOTES. VER. 264. Gold, Silver,] Thefe four lines are fine examples of the clofe, energetic, comprehenfive, ftyle of which he was so perfect a master. VER. 273. All Townsbend's Turnips,] Lord Townshend, Secretary of State to George the First and Second.-When this great Statefman retired from bufinefs, he amused himself in Husbandry; and was particularly fond of that kind of rural improvement which arises from Turnips; it was the favourite subject of his converfation. W. He is faid to have been flow in his parts, rough in his manners, and impatient of contradiction; but generous and humane at bottom; and of ftrong, good judgment. VER. 274. Like Bu-] Bubb Doddington, afterward Lord Melcombe, whofe curious Diary has difcovered many defpicable court-fecrets and mean intrigues. VER. 277. Fly, like Oglethorpe,] Employed in fettling the Colony of Georgia. P. Here are lines that will justly confer immortality on a man who well deferved fo magnificent an eulogium. He was at once a great hero and a great legiflator. The vigor of his mind and body have feldom been equalled. The vivacity of his genius continued to a great old age. The variety of his adventures, and the very different fcenes in which he had been engaged, makes one regret that his life has never been written. Dr. Johnson once offered to do Link towns to towns with avenues of oak, Enclose whole downs in walls, 'tis all a joke! 260 And trees, and ftones, and farms, and farmer fall. are, 266 Who, if they have not, think not worth their care. 'Talk what you will of Tafte, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as foon as of a mind. Why, of two brothers, rich and restless one 270 Plows, burns, manures, and toils from fun to fun; NOTES. 275 Is it, if the General would furnish the materials. Johnson had a great regard for him, for he was one of the first persons that highly, in all companies, praised his London. His first campaign was made under Prince Eugene, against the Turks; and this great General always fpoke of Oglethorpe in the highest terms. Neither he nor Eugene loved Marlborough. He once told me, (for I had the pleasure of knowing him well,) that Eugene, fpeaking of Marlborough, faid, "There is a great difference in making war en maitre, or en avocat." But his fettlement of the Colony in Georgia gave a greater luftre to his character than even his military exploits. Silveftrem flammis et ferro mitiget agrum : Utar, et ex modico, quantum res poscet, acervo Ac potius, puer ut feftis Quinquatribus olim, 'Pauperies immunda procul procul abfit: ego, utrum NOTES. Non VER. 280. That God of Nature, &c.] Here our Poet had an opportunity of illuftrating his own Philofophy; and so giving a much better fenfe to his Original; and correcting both the Natu ralifm and the Fate of Horace, which are covertly conveyed in thefe words: "Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat astrum, W. VER. 302. In pow'r, wit,] The fix words in the Original, "Viribus, ingenio, fpecie, virtute, loco, re," are wonderfully clofe, emphatical, and compact; but I think they could hardly be better expressed than by our Author. He has not, perhaps, fucceeded fo well in imitating another line below, "Somnia, Is known alone to that Directing Pow'r, с ; Yes, Sir, how fmall foever be my heap, 'What is❜t to me, (a paffenger God wot,) teeth. 280 285 290 295 300 "But NOTES. "Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, fagas," a line of admirable brevity. If I was to undertake to point out all the beauties of our Author, as I prefume to do fome of his blemishes, R 3 |