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heroic in purfuit of its vices; but they had no idea of the divine form or character, in which is fummed up an expreffion of all virtues. In Jupiter there is a favage majefty, with ftrong indications of a lafcivious difpofition; the fame is obfervable in their Apollo's, Bacchus's, &c. their Venus fpeaks the harlot at firft view; Minerva has fullen compofure, an Amazonian fierceness; Juno is a termagant. "There is nothing but what is forbidding in the phyfiognomy of the antient gods. Antinous is an effeminate beauty of the carnal fort; Hercules the most mal

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The muffled owl fails by on filent wing,

The downy moth purfues his duiky way, Light, crefted, gnats their bufy carols fing,

And clofing flow'rets mourn departing day. Soft dews defcending bathe the thirty ground, A mingled fragrance cheers the penfive night,

Dim rifing vapours flowly roll around,

And wand'ring glow-worms fhed their emerald light.

Now breathe the high romantic love-lorn tale,
And mix ideal fcenes of fairy blifs;
Let airy harps from ev'ry paling gale
Steal heav'nly notes with foft enchanting
kifs,

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Then, lightly hovering in the troubled .íky,

Immortal Ariel tun'd the filver lyre, And gently fhed the balm of tranquil joy On hearts refponfive to the quivering

wire.

So 'mid thefe lengthening wilds and barren

moors,

While pours the rain and howls the ftormy

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Far fcud the cares with five-fold talons fraught,

And all the foul a calm delight o'erflows; The tafte is footh'd by many & luscious draught,

So to be folac'd only tea beftows. Oft in my tent, if leisure moments fuit, And toiling duty his beheft withholds, One hand moves to and fro the warm harute, And one the fragrant-fteaming goblet holds. At times the bland luxurious draught I raise, Then o'er the flowers my freshen'd fenfes bend,

While, with the fainted dead, my fancy ftrays,

Who lov'd mankind, and still his fortunes tend.

Qu-tfuens then before me seems to glide:

The fpicy leaf he roll'd and kindled first, Frugal he liv'd, in bleft contentment dy'd, And quaffs the incenfe yet with grateful thirst.

Sometimes Lin-fou, in garb fuccinct attir'd,
Hovers the poignant nofegay to prefent,
As, when of lofty contemplation tir'd,
He fnuffs freth ardour from the welcome
fcent.

Now Chas-chefu befide me floats to spread
His azure-flowery cups with confcious
pride,

In each an other-flavour'd tea is fhed,

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With fresh delight his every goblet ply'd. Now Yu-chouan the brimmed veffel tall Uplifts, his wide cheeks fcarce the flood contain:

Not with the one fhall endlefs changes pall, Not with the other greedy thirst profane. But hark! the gong-gong tolls the knell of day,

Her odour'd pearls cool-handed Evening ftrows;

Young moon-beams 'thwart my filken curtain's play,

And on my fofa cling to woo repose. Slow-breathing flumber, come: my ftrength decays;

With wings of down my glowing temples

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Where greatnefs rattles in fome rotten frame, Where feafts the moth on beauty's fading flame?

O'er the pale picture, and the nofeless bust,
Oblivion ftrews a foft fepulchral duft;
The line illuftrious feems to ftain the wall,
And the fublime of foot envelopes all.

What could the trophied lie to H

atone

For British honour mortgaged with his own?
His nightly cares and watchings to fuftain
A bank at Pharoah, and a chefs campaign;
While Wolfe, on high, in pictur'd glory lies,
The cry of vict'ry hails, and, fmiling, dies.
Dare C- claim the honours of his kind?
The pompous lineage fhames the pigmy mind.
His coat armorial chalk'd upon the floor,
Cofts what would fatiate a thousand poor:
Well pleas'd the peer one moment to amufe,
Then yields the pageant to the dancer's fhoes.
Bafe-born fuch men, tho' fill'd with regal

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And not a voice among the nameless crowd That may not cry-Tis I who make them proud.

To rule ftrong paffions with a calm. con-
troul,

To fpread around a fanctity of foul
That meets, ferene, the foam of public ftrife,
And perfumes every act of leffer life-
Virtue to feel, and virtue to impart,
That houshold GOD who confecrates the heart,
Flies from the fretted roof, the gilded dome,
To reft within an humbler, happier home-
Behold the gentleman!-confefs'd, and clear;
For Nature's Patent never made a Peer,
The mean ennobled; nor adorn'd the bafe:
Merit alone, with her, creates a race:
Confpicuous ftars, in chart of hift'ry plac'd
To cheer the dreary biographic waste,
In their own right, they take their feat fub-
lime,

And break illuftrious thro' the cloud of time.
From nick-nam'd curs thefe titles firft began:
A Spaniel, Cato: then, my Lord-a man.
The felf-fame irony was fram'd to fuit
The fawning biped, and the fawning brute.
While Pompey fnores upon my lady's lap,
The infant lordling feeds, or ftarves on pap:
Puppies well-bred are Cæfar'd into fame,
And Tommy T-
takes great Sydney's

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But how can wash of heraldry efface
The name of BURKE, and dignify difgrace..
Can peerage blazon o'er the penfion'd page,
And give a glofs to ignominious age?
Himfelf, the prime corrupter of his laws:
Himfelf, the grievance that, incens'd, he
draws:

Not to be blam'd, but in a tender tone;
But to be prais'd, but with a heart-felt groan;
He lives a leffon for all future time,
Pathetically great, and painfully fublime.

O why is genius curs'd with length of days?
The head ftill flourishing, the heart decays.
Protracted life makes virtue less fecure,
The death of wits is feldom premature.
Quench'd too by years gigantic JOHNSON'S
zeal,

Th' unwieldy elephant was taught to kneel; Bore his ftrong tow'r, to please a fervile Court,

And wreath'd his lithe probofcis for their sport.

Of BURKE and JOHNSON fly th' opprobrious fame,

And if you feek the glory, dread the shame. The much-prais'd Prefs has made abortive

men:

The hand Herculean lifts the puny pen;
For clang of armour, and for deeds fublime,
Much pointed period-much fyllabic chime!
Return to him, from whom our fatire
Springs,

Rich in the blood of concubines and kings: With greatness rifing from his grandfire's bone,

And baftard honour from a baftard throne;
His turgid veins the true fucceffion thows,
Th' imperial purple flames upon his nofe..
Avaunt,' he cries, 'ye vulgar and ye bafe!
Learn the prerogatives of royal race;
From York and Lancaster conjoin'd, I come;
Sink down, ye dregs; I float at top'-the
fcum!

Live long, great bye-blow of the royal
line,

Long as the coals are tax'd, that make you fhine!

Yet grant, that fome, the lowest of the throng,

Have known the right, as well as felt the wrong:

That HE, who rul'd with iron rod the fkies,
And at whofe feet the broken fceptre lies:
HE too, whofe daring democratic pen
Gives common-fenfe once more to common

men;

Who fmiles at genius in confufion hurl'd,
And with light lever elevates the world:-
Grant, that fuch men, are Adams of their
line,

Spring from the earth, but own a fire divine ;-
While you, with ancestry around you plac'd
In bronze, or marble, porcelain, or pafte;
May rife, at death, to alabafter fame,
And gain the fmoke of honour-not the flame.
Thus far for him, the proud, inflated Lord,
With father concubin'd, and mother whor'd.

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The felt aroma of the unfeen mindThat cheers the fenfes, tho' it cheats the fight,

And spreads abroad its elegant delight.
Turn from the paft, and bring thy honours
home-

THYSELF the anceftor-for times to come-
Not the low parafite, who prowls for bread,
So mean as he who lives upon the dead,
From fome dried mummy draws his noble
claim,

Snuffs up the fœtor, and believes it fame.
Be juft-be gen'rous-felf-dependent-brave
-Think nothing meaner than a titled flave;
Cooly resolve to act the patriot part;
Join Sydney's pulfe to Ruffel's zealous heart :
With proud complacence ftand, like Palmer
pure,

Or with mild dignity of honeft Muir,
Before the brazen bulls of law, and hear
Their favage fentence with a smile severe ;
A fmile that deems it mercy to be hurl'd
Where one may tread against the prefent

world.

What is life, bere 2 Its zeft and fpirit gone, The flower faded, and the effence flown! What precious balm, what aromatic art, Can cleanfe pollution from the public heart? Better to make the fartheft earth our home, With nature's commoners at large to roam, Than join this focial war of clan to clan, Where civil life has barbaris'd the man.

Behold yon ISLE, the glory of the Weft, By Nature's hand in lively verdure drest ; How to the world it fpreads its harbour'd fide,

And proudly fwells above th' Atlantic tide, Where to the ocean Shannon yields his store, And scorns the channel of a fubject shoreGreen meadows spread-refplendent rivers

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A healthy climate, and a temp'rate fun-
There Mis'ry fits, and cats her lazy root;
There man is proud to dog his brother, brute :
In floth the Genius of the ifle decays,
Loft in his own, reverts to former days;
Yet ftill, like Lear, would in his hovel rule,
Mock'd by the madman, jefted by the fool..
There meet th' extremes of rank, there so-

cial art

Has levell'd mankind by their selfish heart:
There no contented middle clafs we trace-
The fole ambition, to be rich and base.
Some, o'er their native element elate,
Like ice-form'd iflands, tow'r in frozen ftate,
Repel all nature with their gelid breath,
And what seems harbour, is the jaw of death.

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The wretched mass beat down the ftruggling
mind,

Nor fee, nor feel their country, or their kind;
But how the back, and bend the eye to earth,
And frangle feeling in its infant birth.
Thro' all extends one fterile fwamp of foul,
And fogs of apathy inveft the whole.

Thrice bleft in fate, had Strongbow never
bore

His band of robbers to green Erin's fhore!
In favage times, the feat of learning known;
In times refin'd, itself the favage grown.
Left to herself, fhe of herself had join'd
Surrounding nations in the race of mind:
With them, work'd off the rough barbarian
foul;

With them, progreffive to a common gaol.

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Her petty chieftains conquer'd by the throne
For common int'reft, tho' it meant its own;
By law, at length, the king to people chain'd,
His duties modell'd, and their rights main-
tain'd;-

From strong collifion of internal strife
Had fprung the energy of public life;
For pain and travail that precede the birth,
Endears sweet freedom to the mother earth.
Then man had rais'd his fpacious forehead
high,

Lord of himself, the fea, the foil, the sky,
Twin'd round his fword the wreath of civic
art,

And prov'd the wisdom of a fearless heart.

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VARIETIES,

LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL;

Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeftic and Foreign. *Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. R. CLINE and Mr. ASTLEY COOPER will begin their course of anatomical and furgical lectures at the theatre St. Thomas's Hofpital, on Tuefday the 1st of October, at one o'clock; and Mr. Aftley Cooper will begin his course of lectures on the principles and practice of furgery, on the 1ft of November, at eight o'clock in the evening.

DR. OSBORN's and DR. CLARKE'S lectures will begin on Tuesday morning, October 3, at half paft ten; thefe lectures are on the principles and practice of midwifery, and the difeafes of women and children.

The following is the plan of Mr. CRUIKSHANK's and MR. WILSON's lectures, at the Theatre of Anatomy, Great Windmill street, on anatomy, phyfiology, pathology, and furgery:-Two couries of lectures are read during the winter and fpring feafons; one courfe beginning on the ift day of October, and terminating on the 18th day of January; the other courfe beginning on the 19th day of January, and terminating towards the middle of May. In the October courfe is explained the ftructure of every part of the human body, lo as to exhibit a complete view of its anatomy, as far as it has been hitherto inveftigated; to which are added, its phyfiology and pathology. In the fpring courfe, the structure of the human body is again explained, after which follow lectures on furgery; and the courfe concludes with the anatomy of the gravid uterus, and inftructions in the art of delivery. A room is likewife open for

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diffections, from nine o'clock in the morning till two in the afternoon, from the 10th day of October till the 20th of April; where regular and full demonftrations of the parts diffected are given; where the different cafes in furgery are explained, the methods of operating shewn on the dead body; and where alfo the various arts of injecting and making preparations are taught.

On Monday October the 7th, at seven o'clock in the evening, Mr. PEARSON'S autumnal courfe of lectures on the principles and practice of furgery, will commence in Golden fquare. Gentlemen who attend these lectures may have the advantage of exemplifying the general doctrines they fhall hear delivered, by attending the chirurgical practice at the Dispensary, on moderate terms.

Mr. JAMES WILSON, Surgeon, at his houfe in Argyle ftreet, Hanover fquare, will commence his course of lectures on the principles and practice of furgery, very early in October. The lectures are read every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from feven to eight o'clock in the evening. Another courfe will commence towards the end of January.

Mefirs. A. and C. R. AIKIN will refume their evening courfe of Lectures on Chemistry, with its application to Arts and Manufactures, in the middle of November next. Their morning courfe will commence later in the year. Further particulars may be known by applying to Mr. C. R. Aikin, surgeon, No, 4, Broadftreet-buildings.

Mr.

Mr.MACKINTOSH intends to commence a fecond courfe of lectures in November; of which particular notice will appear hereafter in the news-papers.

muddy water of the tides, and fuffering it to depofit its fediment on the land, is now the object of great attention in Lincolnshire, and appears to be a moft capital improvement. It is particularly defcribed in the above mentioned number of Annals of Agriculture.”

The Rev. Dr. WATKINS, whofe bio. graphical papers have frequented interefted the readers of the Monthly Magazine, will" fpeedily publifh, in one large volume octavo, an univerfal Biographical Dictionary, which, in respect to defign, will bear the fame relation to biography that the ordinary Gazetteers bear to geography. Such a compendious biographical work has long been wanted, and can fearcely fail to be well received by the public.

The Rev. W. TOOKE, who has already diftinguished himself by his valuable publications relative to the Ruffian empire, is at this time employed upon a Hiftory of Ruffia, from the eftablishment of the Monarchy by Rurick to the acceffion of Ca

tharine the Second.

In a valuable letter from Mr. Herbert Marth to A. Young, Efq. inferted in the Annals of Agriculture, No. 188, an account is given of the methods employed by the peasants about Leipfic to pass their fevere winters without injury. Every farm is furnifhed with an out-houfe built of clay mixed with chopped ftraw, the walls of which are four feet thick. Its roof is clay, thatched over. It has no windows, but a few holes for the circulation of air. Its door is faced with iron, fo that the whole is fire proof. Befides the ground-floor, it has two upper floors. In the ground-floor all forts of roots ufed for food and fodder are kept during the winter. Of thofe fome of the principal are the root of the long white beet, and of the beet called runcles (beta maxima), from which fugar has been made. The upper ftories are used as granaries. By means of thefe clay houfes the feveret frofts are refifted, and fodder is preferved good during the longeft winters. In addition to dry fodder, oil-cake foups, made by diffolving the cakes in warm water, are given to both ewes and cows during winalfo gruels made with half-ground rye or barley. By this mode of manage ment, it appears that much lefs is fuffered in the hard winters in Saxony, than in thofe which occafionally occur among us. Mr. Marth mentions, as the best account of the agriculture of that country, a book entitled Sächlicher Landwirth, written by a Saxon gentleman. This work, he thinks, might afford various inftructive extracts for our farmers.

ter;

An agricultural practice called WARPING which confifts in letting in the

Mr. WILLIAM PLAYFAIR has in the prefs, "Strictures on the Afiatic Eftablifhments of Great Britain; or, an Inquiry into the true Interefts of the East India Company, as connected with those of the Nation at large:" comprehending the pretenfions of individual traders, and uniting their contending interefts with the chartered rights of the Company, to the total annihilation of what is termed illicit trade. In order to illuftrate the progreffive rife of our exports and imports to and from India, there will be added to this work a chart, elegantly engraved and coloured, reprefenting clearly and comprehenfively the regular gradation of this extenfive and lucrative commerce during the whole of the prefent century.

The Tranflator of "Campe's Difcovery of America," is encouraged to proceed with the fecond and third volumes. They are now in the prefs, and will foon be published,

An aftronomical inftrument, called the Ararium, exhibiting at one view all the ftars which are vifible at any time of the year in Great Britain and Ireland, and which may be adjusted to any given time, will fpeedily be published.

FRIAR PAULINUS, one of the moft diftinguished Oriental fcholars in Europe, and who very lately enjoyed a poft under the Propaganda at Rome, is now gone to Padua in the double capacity of librarian to the univerfity and fecretary to the Propaganda, who are removed thither from Rome. That city, which for centuries has been a venerable feat of learning, cannot but rejoice at furnishing a fanctuary to fo many worthy and deferving literati, that have repaired thither from the convulfed parts of the reft of Italy, and among whom the celebrated Borgia ftands confpicuous. It is, indeed, lamentable, that Friar Paulinus, by being deprived of all typographical refources, has been compelled to give up, perhaps for ever, his prospects of disclosing to

*This worthy cardinal, who, it is faid, had little reafon to be pleafed with the treatment he lately experienced from the French, receives, fince his quitting Rome, a very liberal penfion from the enlightened court of Denmark.

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