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In the mean time a gigantic deity, with great pomp and fo lemnity, afcends from the Atlantic ocean, reproves Britannia for her paricides, exhorts her to difcontinue an ill-omened war,' and turn her arms against the infulting Gaul, her native enemy,' concluding with this advice:

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Seize this triumphant hour,

When, bright as gold from the refining flame,
Flows the clear current of thy Keppel's fame.
Give to the hero's full command,

Th' imperial enfigns of thy naval power;
So fhall his own bold aufpices prevail,
Nor Fraud's infidious wiles, nor Envy pale
Arreft the force of his victorious band.

The Gaul fubdued, fraternal ftrife shall cease,

And firm, on freedom's bafe, be fixt an empire's peace;} An hypercritic may perhaps object to the fecond line in this quotation, and obferve, that no claffic writer ever compared a clear ftream to gold; and that yellow, applied to an admiral, is a word of ill-omen; but fuch witlings fhould be told, that Homer and Virgil, and all great poets, feldom regard above one leading circumftance in their comparisons.

A Paftoral. By an Officer belonging to the Canadian Army. 4to. 15. 6d. Becket.

The defign of the author in this Paftoral is to express his forrow for the lofs of a friend, whofe death was thought inevitable, at the time the former was obliged to leave Montreal, to attend his duty in the country. For, it feems,

A cannon fhot, by cruel Fate let flie,

Lopp'd off at once the brave young warrior's thigh."

But before the dialogue is ended, intelligence is brought, that the gallant foldier is recovered from his wound; upon which one of the shepherds concludes with this comfortable reflection: Again he'll join in fong and merry tale,

When we together quaff our home-brew'd ale."

Caledonia. A Poem. 4to. 25. Cadell.

This poetical effay was occafioned by a vifit to Invergary, and other parts of the Highlands of Scotland, in the year 1741. The author gives us an entertaining sketch of Corryerg, Lochgary, the fall of Fyers, Bochalaeté, Lochlomond, and other ro

mantic fcenes.

The following paffage prefents the reader with a view of Bochalaeté; which the author fays, literally fignifies the herdfman of Até. There are several larger and higher mountains in the Highlands, but this is the moft remarkable and Ariking -object he faw.

• In Até's foreft, wide, romantic, wild,

Far on the confines of a rugged vale,

A huge tremendous mountain bounds the view,

In Gaulic language Bochalaeté nam'd,
The lofty herdfman that o'erlooks the plain,
For many a furlong stretching o'er the ground,

Obliquely from the level of the dale,

Imbrown'd with purpled heath, his bellying bafe
Suftains a wond'rous magnitude of rock:
Rifing upright, and tap'ring as it mounts
In air, the naked fpacious front prefents
A daring brow, crag-fkirted, keenly edg'd,
That ragged cuts the fky. A column round
And perpendicular, a folid mafs

Of ruffet marble, gloomy ornament,
In figure rough, in bulk enormous, height
Gigantic,, crowns his head, and tow'rs aloft,
Like Atlas, feeming to fupport the clouds,
And rivets like the bafilifk the look,

Till giddy akes at length the gazing eye.'

From the profpect of the country the author proceeds to view the manners of the natives, their employments, their musical inftruments, their fports, their drefs, &c.

In defcribing their cloathing, he warmly inveighs against an act paffed in the 19th of George II. for the prohibition of the ancient Highland drefs, which, he fays, has fubjected the natives to fome peculiar hardships and inconveniences. Obferve how pathetically he declaims against the introduction of breeches!

This ftern decree

Binds them in breeches too, their lasting hate;
Confin'd, they cannot stretch their limbs as wont,
And wading through the deep or dashing stream,
The water foaks thro' this unpleasant garb,
And fcalds their skin, or freezes in the cold.
Strait'ned with ligatures, with pain they climb
The hill, or fcramble o'er the mountain's brow,
And with flow steps defcend; the blood denied
A free and eafy paffage, fwells the veins,
The finews to the utmoft tension stretch'd,
Are, with endurance painful, apt to start.'

Let Sawney provide himself with trowfers; or, when he wades through the water, let him put off his galligafkins, and he would feel none of thefe lamentable inconveniences: but, on the contrary, would appear with more decency than when he difplays his bare brawny limbs below the philibeg.

In the latter part of his poem the author confiders the causes and effects of fome late migrations from the Highlands, the propriety and wifdom of an attention in the legislature to the peculiarities of that country, and the danger of colonizing the extenfive regions of America.

The Difrafted Lover, a Poem. 4to. Is. 6d. Davies.

We have feldom met with any thing more pleasingly melancholy, more plaintive and pathetic, than this epiftle. The author has expreffed, with force and delicacy, the various paffions, which may be naturally fuppofed to have diftracted the foul of the unhappy lover, before he executed his horrid purpose.

In the following lines he defcribes his flattering expectations, 2nd the ardour of his love,

• Thy

Thy beauties were my Mufe's darling theme, And thine creative Fancy's richest dream: Whene'er her fairest pictures rose to view, Th' ideal profpects ftill were fill'd with you. How oft, by Love's delufive visions fir'd, (From flavish forms and hollow pomp retir'd) With thee I've hop'd life's various fcenes to fhare, To fwell thy joys, and lessen ev'ry care ; To meet each smile, to hufh each rifing figh, And catch the wishes kindling in thine eye; With wakeful zeal to guard thy languid bed, And on my bofom raise thy drooping head; With bland endearments stay thy parting breath, And back repel the threat'ning dart of Death.' After feveral pathetic reflections on thefe delufive hopes, he falls into defpair, which he thus emphatically expreffes: -Wretch fhall I tamely bear the galling chain, And crawl through life a fpectacle of pain? No-Come, Defpair, unfheathe thy friendly blade, And wrap me in the grave's eternal shade:

Freely this anxious being I refign;

-Be endless fleep, and dumb oblivion, mine!"

From this resolution, he starts back with horror, at the thoughts of fuicide; but, at last, gives way to the impetuofity of his paffion:

-Oh, fatal force of paffions unfubda'd;

In vain I ftrive to stem th' impetuous flood;

Love in my heart maintains refiftiefs fway,

And fweeps my reafon, pray'rs, and faith away.
-Then take, relentless maid! my last adieu;

My lips' expiring breath fhall whisper you!
But, whilft on life's extremeft verge I ftand,
And hold the deadly weapon in my hand,
Perhaps my rival all your heart employs,
Infults my fate, and riots in your joys!
-Perhaps, when Death fhall close thefe weeping eyes,
And free you from my withes, and my fighs
My vows rejected will his blifs improve,

Swell his proud triumph, and augment his love!
Detefted thought! O fpare my aking heart!

My arm may tremble-but we must not part!
Vain are his hopes to triumph in thy charms-
This flighted hand fhall tear thee from his arms:
Thou too fhalt bleed at Love's infatiate fhrine,

And blend, at leaft in death, thy fate with mine;

This poem may be read with fafety and propriety by the young and unexperienced, as the author has introduced fome juft reflections on the fatal confequences of a licentious life. Reflections on the Death of Mifs Martha Ray, 4to. 6d. Har rifon, and Co.

The first four lines:

Sigh! figh! O mufe! awhile indulge your grief:
Tears, let to flow, give forrow's breast relief.

Radia is dead,-She died beneath these arms.

Snatch'd from the world's allurements-and its harms.

Thefe

Thefe are by no means the worft lines in this lamentable pro

duction.

A Monody to the Memory of D. Garrick, Esq. 6d. Harrison, and Co.

This monody is written in different kinds of measure; the heroic and the lyric. Among other fentiments, the author has adopted that of Mr. Sheridan, relative to the ftatuary, the painter, the architect, the poet, and the actor; and expreffed it with force and fpirit. The ear has drank the tuneful found,* is perhaps an error of the prefs, instead of drunk.

Speaking of Garrick, he fays,

• Well may you mourn, ye friendly train,
Whom he fo oft has led;

Who now no more shall join the strain,
Low on his duffy bed."

Dufty is an inelegant, unmeaning word in this place,
• When the sweet fwan of Avon attun'd his soft lay,
'Twas the blitheft that gladden'd the plain;
The Mufes all join'd to acknowlege his way,
But 'twas nature that guided the ftrain."

Arif

A fwan tuning his lays, gladdening the plains, and the Mufes acknowledging his way, are incongruous images. Many of the ancients, we confefs, fpeak of the finging of fwans totle, Plato, Cicero, Virgil, &c. mention it as a fact *. But Pliny fays, he was convinced by feveral experiments, that it was a mistaken notion; and Ælian tells us, that he never heard them fing, nor does he believe any perfon ever did t. Their organs, undoubtedly, are not formed for that purpose. It is time then to explode this idle conceit, as too trite and absurd to be admitted into modern poetry.

The Carmen Seculare of Horace, tranflated into English Verse. The fecond Edition. 4to. 1. DodЛley.

Corrected in feveral places, and illuftrated with notes. Pygmalion,, a Poem. From the French of J. J. Rouffeau. 4to. 2s. 6d. Fielding and Walker.

The ftory of Pygmalion, as related by Ovid, is to this purpofe.-Pygmalion, a famous ftatuary of Cyprus, detefting the women of that ifland for their licentioufnels, refolves to continue in perpetual celibacy. But having formed a beautiful ftatuc, he falls in love with it. Venus, in compliance with his wishes, gives it life; and Pygmalion marries his newly infpired miftrefs.

The author of this poem has reprefented Pygmalion, as king of Tyre. But, as the tranflator obferves, it feems to be fettled, On unquestionable authority, that he was a very different perfon.

Plat. Phæd. §35 Cic. Tufc. i. § 73° Hor. iv. 2.

* Arift, Hift. Anim. ix. 12. Virg. Ecl. viii. 55. ix. 29. + Plin. Nat. Hift. x. 23. l. Var. Hift. i. 14% 1 See Crit. Rev. for March, p. 231.

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The original, which is printed at the bottom of each page, is faid to have been represented at a temporary theatre, erected by Lord Villiers at Boulney.

The prefent translation is a diffufive paraphrafe, embellished with many additional circumstances and defcriptions.

The poetry is animated, and breathes an uncommon spirit of amorous enthufiafm. The reprefentation of the two characters, Pygmalion and Galatea, must be a dangerous experiment on the virtue of the dramatis perfonæ.

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Delineation, a Poem. 4to. 15. 6d. Kearly.

The poet invokes the aid of the Mufes. One of them defcends from Parnaffus to his affiftance. He proceeds to applaud virtue, and attack vice in feveral well-known characters. Lord North ftands at the head of thofe whom he favours with his encomiums, and some of the leaders of oppofition are the characters he chiefly reprobates. While he is in his full career, ftigmatizing and lashing the delinquents, he is interrupted by the ap pearance of an extraordinary perfonage, who threatens to punith him for the malignity of his rhymes. He nevertheless perfifte in his refolution to publish them, and intreats the Muse to convey them to the printer. The Mufe complies with his request; and this production is communicated to the world with an af furance,

• That guilt and folly fhall not fail to know,
And feel how much the poet is their foe:
While each exalted, truly lib'ral mind,
A never failing friend fhall furely find."

A generous declaration! which, it is to be hoped, the du ration of his poetical existence will enable him to fulfil.

MEDICA L.

Guardian of Health. Vol. I. By N. D. Falck, M. D. Small Svo. Law.

This volume is divided into three parts, the first of which contains a defcription of the human body, anatomical and phyfiological; the second treats of the animal economy in the state of health and diseases; and the third is employed on regimen, diet, and rules of preferving health. In general, the treatise affords a clear view of the feveral fubjects, which are occafionally enlivened by fhort declamatory fallies.

DIVINITY. Fifteen Sermons on felect Subjects; from the Manufcripts of the late Reverend Thomas Broughton, A. M. Prebendary of Sarum, and Vicar of St. Mary Radcliff and St. Thomas, in Bristol. By the Rev. Thomas Broughton, A. M. 8vo. 45. Cadell. Thefe difcourfes are not published with any views of displaying the abilities of the author, as a writer, or a divine; but in compliance with the request of fome of his parishioners, among whom he refided thirty years.

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