*Not fo the ftream, that from the fountain flows, CLIMAX our sense will by gradation raise, And this thought for the next a groundwork lays. Then," fays th' Omnipotent, who reigns on high, My pitying ear fhall hearken to the sky; ss The sky fhall hear the earth, the earth the wine, SS The wine fhall Jezreel hear, for Jezreel now is mine* HYPOTYFOSIS to the life will paint. At Dives' gate poor Laz'rus pours his plaint: "Each eager feature speaks the asking soul; Thick heave his fighs, his tears in torrents roll ". O! my fon, 66 I faw, abhorr'd idea! at the stake Old, venerable LATIMER; a foul "Spotless as infant chastity, than whom "No Prelate wore a whiter robe, or grac❜d "An holier mitre. With officious hafte "A blood-ftain'd fury hurl'd a flaming brand "Amidst the pile, and taught the tow'ring blaze "To roufe a thousand agonies of pain "In ev'ry limb. He fmil'd, the martyr fmil'd, Scarce confcious of a pang. His lifted eye, "O majesty of virtue! calmly hung "On heav'n's unclouded arch, and feem'd to shine "With fomething more than human; rapture feiz'd "Each glowing cheek, and flush'd his ev'ry look "With all a cherub's brightness. At his fide, "Sad intercourfe of forrows! RIDLEY grafp'd The focial chain, and fhar'd with equal zeal Hofea ii. 21. See page 268, "Barbarity Barbarity of torture - Yes, I fhar'd "Affliction's deadly cup, and half affum'd "His dignity of foul. Ye heav'ns! what joy "Tumultuous heav'd my breast! what manly ftrength, "What energy of firmness, while my ear "Enjoy'd his heav'nly comforts? Ev'ry nerve "Confefs'd the full divinity, and steel'd "Affrighted nature, till th' angelic band, "Bright hov'ring o'er the flame, exulting led "Our unembodied fouls to feats of blifs, "A paradife of fweets! and gently lull'd The last keen agonies of fense to reft *." "Duration's long interminable line "In regions unexplor'd, O man, is thine: "Why then of low terrestrial cares fo full? "Why in thy work fo languishingly dull? "Thy life with what rapidity † it flies? "A moment glances, and a moment dies: "And yet how few remain upon thy score ! "Or who dares say, thou haft a moment more? "Ere long all nature too shall fink in years, "And funs and planets, lawless from their spheres, "In ruin fhall rufh down precipitate, "Quench'd and abforb'd in all-devouring fate; "O'er worlds demolish'd Night fhall throw its pall, "And Death and second Chaos fwallow all." PROSOPOPEIA into perfons turns The qualities of mind. "See Valour burns Bishop RIDLEY's Ghost, page 212. Abstract + Refpice celeritatem rapidiffimi temporis:,cogita brevitatem hujus fpatii, per quod citatiffimi currimus. SEN.Epift.99.-Were ever words more happily chofen to exprefs a Writer's ideas? Abstract ideas, gen'ral notions rise, And in corporeal fhapes the foul surprise. "Fame on its wings the hero's name fhall raife, "And her loud trump fhall labour in his praise, "While Viary weaves the laurels for his brows, "And round the chief her blaze of glory throws." A filent perfon thro' his friend fhall speak. How does my heart with MILO's fpeeches break? "Farewel, farewel, my citizens, he cries, "Enjoy in peace your laws and liberties; "Still, my lov'd Rome, ftill happy may'ft thou be, "Whatever wrongs are multiply'd on me *." This Figure by departed ghofts persuades. "The bursting earth unveils her awful fhades, "All flow, and wan, and cover'd o'er with fhrouds, "They glide along in vifionary crowds, "And all with fober, folemn accents cry, “Think, think, O mortal, what it is to die †.” PROSOPOPEIA too endows with sense, With life, with paffion, and intelligence Inan'mate nature. "At our father's fall, "Whose curse has swept in ruin o'er us all, "Earth to its center figh'd, the heav'ns around "Grew dark, and fighing, back return'd the sound ‡.” PARABOLE darts its surprising beams, And in unclouded luftre fets our themes. 55 A man unfaithful in an evil day, ss When on his help our pleafing hopes we lay, SS Proves like a broken tooth, which when we fain SS Would use, reluctates and revolts in pain: CICERO. See page 360. lines in PARNELL's Night-Piece on Death. See page 355. $ Or + Altered from fome MILTON. $5 Or a disjointed foot, that, as we truft SS Rufh thro' our frame, and wound us to the heart * And foars exulting on its tow'ring wings. 55 Who gave the crocodile his monstrous fize? As thro' earth, fea, and fkies they wing their flight. "As o'er the western waves, when ev'ry ftorm "Is hufh'd within its cavern, and a breeze "Soft-breathing lightly with its wings along "The flacken'd cordage glides, the failor's ear "Perceives no found throughout the vast expanfe, "None but the murmurs of the fliding prow, "Which flowly parts the smooth and yielding main; "So thro' the wide and lift'ning crowd no found, Prov. xxv. 19. " No +YOUNG's verfion of Job xli. 18. MILTON'S comparifon upon the breaking up of the infernal council, and the joy of the devils in SATAN's undertaking the bold attempt of paffing from hell through unknowa difficulties and dangers in fearch of our world, Paradife Loft, book ii. line 488. "No voice but thine, O AGIS, broke the air, "Declaring thus the oracle divine *." That holy man, who fin and finners flies, Who fets the laws of Heav'n before his eyes, There finds an inexhauftible delight, Reads them by day, and thinks them o'er by night, With ftreams from ever-bubbling fprings fupply'd, Bright was his genius as the folår beam, EPIPHONEMA charms and edifies With obfervations natʼral, juft, and wise. 7 "With am'rous language, and bewitching fmiles, "Attractive airs, and all the lover's wiles, ་་ "The fair Egyptian JACOB's fon carest, "Hung on his neck, and languish'd on his breast; "Courted with freedom now the beauteous flave, "Now, flatt'ring, fu'd, and threat'ning, now did rave. * GLOVER'S Leonidas, book i. line 89. + Pfalm i. 3. "But The Author's character of the Reverend Mr SAMUEL DAVIES. |