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Sæpe fuper ftramen fœnoque jacentibus alto
Defenfa eft humili cana pruina casa.
Quis tibi monftrabat saltus venatibus aptos ;
Et tegeret catulos qua fera rupe fuos?
Retia fæpe comes maculis diftincta tetendi
Sæpe citos egi per juga longa canes.'

Thou waft not rich (with reverence hear this truth)
Thou waft not in the heyday hour of youth;
When, bleft with wealth, and of a bishop born,
I took thee drooping on the widow'd thorn.
To my warm neft I bore thy languid head,
And bade thee fleep on Flattery's foftest bed.
Secure from want, and safe from every storm,
In Alfred's hall I nurs'd thy tender form.
In Hiftory's field, who mark'd thy glorious game?
Who taught thy grey goofe-quill its noblest aim?
Thro' darkest paths I fhew'd thy pen its way,
And bade the fkulking Tory be thy prey.'

The Carmen Seculare of Horace tranflated into English Verfe. By the Author of the Ode to the Warlike Genius of Great Britain, 4to. 15. Dodfley.

The late performance of the Carmen Seculare of Horace at Free Mafon's Hall, as it was adjusted by the learned P. Sanadon, and fet to mufic by Mr. Philidor, has induced the author to publish this tranflation, for the benefit of those admirers of mufic, who do not understand the original. What Sanadon calls the Epilogue, beginning, Spiritum Phoebus,' &c. is here placed after the first stanza, Odi profanum;' and perhaps not improperly. The fpear of Achilles, by a flight inadvertency, or a typographical error, is called the Pylian javelin,' instead of the Pelian javelin. The author is certainly right in referring Miles impar, to Achilles, when he purfued Apollo in the shape of Agenor, Il. xxii. and not to his death in the temple of Apollo, as the expreffion is ufually applied.-Though this is an extemporaneous production, it is executed with a confiderable degree of spirit.

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The Sacrifice: a Sacred Ode. To which is added An Elegy. By William Auguftus Willis, M. D. 410. Is. 6d.

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The subject of the Ode is the flaughter of infants at Bethlehem. The subject of the Elegy is the death of the author's wife, the daughter of the rev. Mofes Browne, to whom it is dedicated. This Elegy feems to have been written about the year 1760; the author therefore has taken double the time to finish it, prescribed by Horace.-Thefe pieces are the productions of piety and affection.

Parnafian Sprigs; or, Poetical Mifcellanies. By William Mavor. 410. 2s. 6d. Bew.

The author informs us, that in this publication he has not trufted entirely to his own judgement; but that his pieces have paffed through the hands of feveral gentlemen, whose opinion he is inclined to think, is of fome weight.' This we may ob

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ferve, is a very equivocal proof of their merit. Not one friend in fifty will tell the poet a difagreeable truth; because not one poet in five hundred will condefcend to hear it.

Mr. Mavor's works confift of a poem on Death; an Address to the Deity; a Paftoral; a Fragment, entitled, Melancholy corrected; an Qde on facred Mufic; and a Defcription of the Spring.

The following lines are not the beft, nor the worst, in this publication.

As through the vale of life we shape our way,
He bade Religion fhed her cheering ray,
Religion, fountain of eternal blifs!
The fure, the only path, to happiness,
The fole fupporter of th' afflicted mind,
Ordain'd an afylum for all mankind.’

Mr. Mavor may be content with a fprig of bays, at the foot of Parnaffus..

A remarkable Moving Letter! 410. 15. Faulder.

This Letter is fuppofed to have been fent by a celebrated female historian to her reverend friend and platonic admirer. It is the production of fome facetious bard, who frequently carries his allufions to the utmost verge of delicacy.

Verfes to the Memory of Mr. Garrick. Spoken as a Monody, at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. 440. 15. T. Evans, Strand. This is the molt ingenious and pathetic encomium, that has been paid to the memory of Garrick. The fentiments are delicate, and the verfification harmonious and animated. The author having obferved, that the works of the painter, 'the ftatuary, and the poet, may be tranfmitted to future ages, and their honours perpetuated by fome fubftantial teflimony of their genius, proceeds to reprefent the difadvantages attending the actor.

Such is their meed-their honors thus fecure,
Whofe arts yield objects, and whofe works endure.
The actor only, fhrinks from time's award;
Feeble tradition is his memory's guard;
By whofe faint breath his merits must abide,
Unvouch'd by proof-to fubitánce unallied!
Ev'n matchless Garrick's art to heav'n refign'd,
No fix'd effect, no model leaves behind!

The grace of action-the adapted mien,
Faithful as nature to the varied scene;

Th' expreflive glance-whofe fubtle comment draws
Entranc'd attention, and a mute applaufe;

Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught,
A fente in filence, and a will in thought;
Harmonious fpeech, whofe pure and liquid tone
Gives verfe a mufic, fcarce confefs'd its own;
As light from gems, affume a brighter ray,
And cloath'd with orient hues, tranfcends the day!
Paffion's wild break--and frown that awes the fenfe,
And every charm of gentler eloquence-

All perishable!-like th' electric fire
But ftrike the frame-and as they trike expire ;
Incenfe too pure a bodied flame to bear,

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It's fragrance charms the fenfe, and blends with air.
• Where then-while funk in cold decay he lies,
And pale eclipfe for ever veils those eyes!—
Where is the bleft memorial that enfures

Our Garrick's fame ?-whofe is the truft-tis yours." The conclufion is a beautiful and affecting application to the paffions of the audience, before which this Monody was fpoken, The Shadows of Shakespeare: a Menody, occafioned by the Death of Mr. Gariick. By Courtney Melmoth. 40. 15. Dilly. The author makes the characters of Shakspeare appear in fhady forms, and in fucceffion pay their homage at the tomb of Garrick, by the recital of fome complimentary lines. This train is formed by Ariel, Profpero, Romeo, Coriolanus, Lear, Antony, Jaques, Hamlet, and others. The thought is ingenious.

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Garrick in the Shades; or, A Peep into Elysium; a Farce. 8vo. IS. Southern.

The dramatis perfonæ are Minos, acus, Rhadamanthus, and Mercury ghofts, Ryan, Quin, Woodward, Shuter, Wefton, Foote, Barry, Moffop, Holland, Garrick; poets, whom no body ever heard of; and players, whom no body now remembers.

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The dialogue is fupported with fome humour, and in a style fuitable to the characters introduced. The infernal judges allow Mr. Garrick's unrivalled merit as an actor, and probity as a man, but injoin

Frequent ablution in the Infernal:lakes,

Till ev'ry loathsome stain, and cank'rous spot,
Of fordid av rice is done away:

And for his fervice Quin and Foote are nam'd
Inquifitors."

MEDICA L.

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Hiftory of the Origin of Medicine. By John Coakley Lettfom, M. D. 4to. 65. Dilly.. -

We are here prefented with an Oration, delivered by Dr. Lettfom at the anniverfary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at the request of the Society. The defign of it is to exhibit, fo far as could be done in the compafs of a difcourfe, the plan of a general history of phyfic, which the author feems to have in contemplation. It contains a brief account of the rife and progrefs of the various branches of medicine, in the following order, viz. the practice of phyfic, furgery, midwifery, anatomy, botany, and pharmacy, chemistry, and myftic medicine. The origin, and advancement of, each are traced in a natural manner; and though the narrative be fuccinct, yet, if we may judge from

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the multiplicity of references at the bottom of almost every page, the author, in compiling it, has had recourfe to a prodigious number of authorities, and those for the most part unneceffary.

A Treatife on the Hydrocele. By Lawrence Nannoni. 8vo. Printed for the Author.

The author of this Treatife, Mr. Nannoni, is profeffor of furgery to the grand duke of Tuscany's court. His experience in the hydrocele appears to be extenfive; and, in moft cafes, he prefers incifion, for the radical cure of the difeafe.-As Mr. Nannoni is a foreigner, and feems to have been only a short time in England, fhould he favour the public with any more productions, it would be proper to have them previously revised by fome literary perfon of this country; as very trifling errors in language are often highly prejudicial to perfpicuity. Of this we meet with an inftance in the following paragraph, in the word celtic, which is not marked among the errata.

The hydrocele that appears on the decline of an inflam matory tumor of the tefticle and its membranes, diffipates with out mercury; for if this mineral any way contributes to it, it is only by destroying the altic venom which is often the cause of it.'

We fhould fuppofe that the author meant feptic; but we queftion whether this idea be supported by authenticated obfervation.

Thefaurus Medicus: five Difputationum, in Academia Edinenfi, ad Rem Medicam pertinentium, a Collegio inftituto ad hoc ufque Tem pus delectus, a Gulielmo Smellio, S. P. E. S. habitus. Tom. II, 8vo. 6s. boards. Murray.

The former volume of this collection was noticed in our Review for September laft. The inaugural differtations contained in the prefent are the following:-De incubo, by J. Bond; De lienteria, by J. Scanlan ; De auditu, by J. F. Śleigh; De coneptu, by S. Merriman ; De hydrope-anafarca, by R. Langlands; De afthmate, by G. Abernethie; De Ferri hiftoria naturali, præparatis, & ufu medico, by E. Wright; De hydrope, by D. Monro; De amaurofi, by A. Rofs; De humore acido a cibis orto, & magnefia alba, by J. Black; de ulcere uteri, by W. Broughton; De teftibus & de femine in variis animalibus, by A. Monro; De morbo hypochondriaco, by W. Turner; de mercurio, by P. Owen; De bile, by R. Ramfay; De cataracta, by J. Lander; and De catarrho, by G. Fordyce. We obferve that the editor has omitted fome of the most curious differtations, to give room to thofe which are most useful.

Remarks on Dr. Lettfom's Letter to Sir Robert Barker, and Geo. Stacpoole, Efq. upon General Inoculation. By the Hon. Baron Dimídale. 8vo. Owen.

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In this pamphlet baron Dimfdale clearly evinces the danger that might arife to the community, by the infection of the fmall

pox, upon the plan propofed of inoculating the poor at their own houses. But that the public may be enabled to judge for itself, the baron has determined to prefent the pamphlets, which contain his opinions on the fubject, to fome coffee-houses, and other places; where, if the gentlemen who have written on the other fide of the queftion, will follow his example, a decifive judgement of this important difpute may be formed. ' Obfervations on the Plan propofed for eftablishing "A Difpenfary and Medical Society for the private and only immediate Use of the Subfcribers, &c." 8vo. 6d. Dilly.

There are fuch objections against the Plan of the Difpenfary, which has been propofed, that it probably will never be carried into execution; and therefore any obfervations upon it may appear unnecessary.

A Differtation on the Teeth and Gums, and the feveral Disorders to which they are liable. By W. Bennet, Surgeon. 800. Is. Harrifon.

This little treatife contains a defcription of the teeth, with an account of dentition, the tooth-ach, the tartar of the teeth, the cure of the tartarous concretion on the teeth, the injurious effects of fcaling the teeth, and an analyfis of the common toothpowders and tinctures in place of which the author recommends a Dentilave and Dentifrice of his own.

Obfervations on the Efficacy of a new Mercurial Preparation for the Cure of the Venereal Difeafe. By Henry Wattell, Surgeon. 8vo. 21. Murray.

To acquire the reputation of great proficiency in curing the venereal disease, is a particular object of regard among many practitioners in the capital. The author before us is one of the candidates for this fpecies of fame, which he endeavours to obtain, in the usual method, by a general account of the disease, and the recommendation of a medicine prepared by himself.

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An Effay towards a Demonftration of the Trinity. By the late Dr. Daniel Scott. Third Edition. 8vo. Goadby and Berry.

To this treatife is prefixed a fhort account of the author; in which, among others, we have the following particulars. Dr. Scott was the fon of an eminent merchant in London; was edu, cated, with archbishop Secker and bishop Butler, who were afterwards his friends and correfpondents, under Mr. Sam. Jones, at Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire. From thence he removed to Utrecht in Holland. Upon his return to England he fettled in London or Colchester, and devoted his time and abilities to the publication of feveral learned and ufeful works: particularly, A New Verfion of St. Matthew's Gospel, with critical Notes, 4to. 1741; and An Appendix to H. Stephens's Greek Lexicon, 2 vols. folio, 1745. The prefent Effay was firft published in

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