from the fame Orator. "But I will firft afk "her, whether fhe chooses that I fhould debate "the matter with her rigidly, gravely, and in "the manner of the ancients, or with pleafan

try, lenity, and politenefs. If I am to treat "her in an auftere manner, and that only, I "must call up from the infernal shades one of "the rough-bearded spectres, fuch as we fee in "ancient ftatues and images, who may deal

roundly with this woman, who may take my "place, and speak for me, for perhaps she might "refent fuch a freedom in my own perfon. Let then one of the family be called up. See,

hear how this awful ghoft behaves and speaks: "Woman, what have you to do with CALIUS? "What is there to juftify your connexion with

this young gentleman? What bufinefs have you with a perfon who is no relation of "yours? What reafon was there for your be

ing fo kind to him as to lend him money, "or your being so unkind as to fear being poi"foned by him? What, had you never seen your "father? Did you never hear that your uncle, your grandfather, your great-grandfather, and "another

"the city of Gades was not within the terms of that alliance "and relation to Rome, which rendered its citizens capable "of that privilege. POMPEY and CRASSUS were his advo"cates, and, at their defire, CICERO alfo; who had the third place, or poft of honour affigned to him, to give the finish❝ing hand to the caufe. The judges gave fentence for him, << and confirmed his right to the city." MIDDLETON's Hiftory of the Life of CICERO, vol. ii. p. 64.

"another ancestor before them, had been Con"fuls of Rome* ?".

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Sed tamen ex ipfa quæram priùs, utrùm me fecum feverè, & graviter, & prifcè agere malit, an remifsè, ac leniter, & urbanè. Si illo auftero more, ac modò: aliquis mihi ab inferis excitandus eft, ex barbatis illis, non hac barbula, quâ ifta delectatur; fed illa horrida, qua in ftatuis antiquis, & imaginibus videmus: qui objurget mulierem, & pro me loquatur, ne ifta mihi fortè fuccenfeat. Exiftat igitur ex ipfa familia aliquis-Qui profecto fi exftiterit, fic aget, & fic loquetur; Mulier, quid tibi cum Cælio? Quid cum homine adolefcentulo? Quid cum alieno? Cur autem tam familiaris huic fuifti, ut aurum commodares; aut tam inimica, ut venenum timeres ? Non patrem tuum videras? Non patruum, non avum, non proavum, atavum audieras Confules fuiffe? CICER. pro M. CELIO, § 14.

That the above-cited paffage may appear in its full meaning and force, it may not be improper to inform the Reader, that "CELIUS was a young gentleman of equeftrian rank, "of great parts and accomplishments, trained under the difci"pline of CICERO himself: that he had diftinguifhed himself "by two public impeachments; the one of C. ANTONIUS,

CICERO'S collegue in the Confulfhip, for confpiring against "the ftate; the other of L. ATRATINUS, for bribery and "corruption. ATRATINUS's fon was now revenging his fa"ther's quarrel, and accufed CÆLIUS of public violence, for

being concerned in the affaffination of Dio, the chief of, "the Alexandrian embaffy, and of an attempt to poison "CLODIA, the fifter of CLODIUS: he had been this lady's gal"lant; whofe refentment for her favours flighted by him was "the real fource of all his trouble. In this fpeech CICERO "treats the character and gallantries of CLODIA, her commerce "with CALIUS, and the gaieties and licentiousness of youth, "with fuch a vivacity of wit and humour, that makes it one MID

"of the most entertaining which he has left to us."

DLETON's Hiftory of the Life of CICERO, vol. ii. p. 65.

§ 5. The Profopopeia makes the earth, woods, rocks, rivers, temples, and other inanimate beings, assume the powers and properties, and express the emotions of living, and sometimes reafonable creatures.

MILTON thus defcribes Eve's eating the forbidden fruit, and the immediate confequences of the fatal trespass;

So faying, her rafh hand in evil hour

Forth reaching to the fruit, fhe pluck'd, fhe ate :
Earth felt the wound; and nature from her feat,
Sighing thro' all her works, gave signs of wo,
That all was loft *.

And when the guilt and mifery were completed by ADAM's eating, we have a like elegant Profopopeia;

So faying, the embrac'd him, and for joy
Tenderly wept, much won that he his love
Had fo ennobled, as of choice t'incur
Divine displeasure for her fake, and death.
In recompence (for such compliance bad
Such recompence beft merits) from the bough
She gave him of that fair enticing fruit
With liberal hand: he fcrupled not to eat
Against his better knowledge, not deceiv'd,
But fondly overcome with female charm.
Earth trembled from her intrails, as again
In pangs, and nature gave a second groan,
Sky low'r'd, and mutt'ring thunder, fome fad drops

Paradife Loft, book ix. line 780.

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Wept at compleating of the mortal fin
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What a deep fenfe of lofs, and what confcious diftrefses are afcribed to the trees, floods, &c. in Mr POPE'S Paftoral, intitled, Daphne, to the memory of Mrs Tempest!

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne fings, Shall lift'ning in mid air fufpend their wings; No more the birds fhall imitate her lays, Or hufh'd with wonder hearken from the fprays: No more the streams their murmurs fhall forbear A fweeter mufic than their own to hear, But tell the reeds, and tell the vocal fhore, Fair Daphne's dead, and mufic is no more!

Her fate is whisper'd by the gentle breeze, And told in fighs to all the trembling trees; The trembling trees, in ev'ry plain and wood, Her fate remurmur to the filver flood;

The filver flood, fo lately calm, appears

Swell'd with new paffion, and o'erflows with tears; The winds, and trees, and floods her death deplore, Daphne, our grief! our glory now no more †!

A temple Thall be brought in as trembling at the horrid blafphemies uttered in it :

With that aloud fhe 'gan to bray and yell,
And foul blasphemous speeches forth did cast,
And bitter curfes, horrible to tell,
That e'en the temple wherein fhe was plac'd
Did quake to hear, and night asunder braft I ́.

*Paradife Loft, book ix. line 990.

+ POPE's Works, vol. i. page 34. Octavo edition.

Burft.

CICERO,

ISPENSER'S Fairy Queen, b.v. c.11. At.28.

CICERO, fpeaking of the palace of POMPEY the Great, which the profligate and wicked ANTONY had feized for himself, fays, "I truly pity "those walls and roofs: for what had that house "ever seen before but what was decent, and according to the beft cuftoms, and the most

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exemplary difcipline? For that man (Poм"PEY) O confcript Fathers, as ye well know, "was glorious abroad, and an admirable pattern ❝at home; nor did he deserve more respect for

his public achievements, than for his private "virtues. But, alas! as to the house of this "excellent man, how are its rooms, its cham«bers, now turned into ftyes of impurity and drunken debauch *!"

To these instances I will add that of VIRGIL; who, defcribing the effects of an ingraftment of the shoot of one tree into the body of another, fays,

Then in fhort space the tree fhall grandly rife,
And mount her fruitful boughs unto the fkies,
Admiring at herself, now overgrown
With foreign leaves, and apples not her own †.
There

Me quidem miferet parietum ipforum, atque tectorum. Quid enim unquam domus illa viderat, nifi pudicum, nifi ex optimo more, & fanctiffima difciplina? Fuit enim ille vir, patres confcripti, ficut fcitis, cùm foris clarus, tum domi admi randus: neque rebus externis magis laudandus, quam inftitutis domefticis. Hujus in fedibus pro cubiculis stabula, pro trieliniis popinæ funt, CICER. Philip. iì. § 28.

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Nec longum tempus, & ingens.

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