have acquir'd you in the Royal Family. A Prince, who is constant to himself, and steady in all his Undertakings; one with whom the Character of HoRACE will agree, Si fractus illabatur orbis, Such a one cannot but place an Efteem, and repose a Confidence on him, whom no Adverfity, no Change of Courts, no Bribery of Intereft, or Cabal of Factions, or Advantages of Fortune, can remove from the folid Foundations of Honour and Fidelity. Ille meos, primus qui me fibi junxit, amores Abftulit, ille habeat fecum, fervetque fepulcro. How well your Lordfhip will deferve that Praise, I need no Inspiration to foretel. You have already left no room for Prophecy: Your early Undertakings have been fuch, in the Service of your King and Country, when you offer'd yourself to the most dangerous Employment, that of the Sea; when you chose to abandon those Delights, to which your Youth and Fortune did invite you, to undergo the Hazards, and, which was worse, the Company of common Scamen; that you have made it evident, you will refuse no Opportunity of rendring yourself useful useful to the Nation, when either your Courage or Conduct shall be requir'd. Bishop BURNET, Pref. to Sir T. MORE's Utopia. OUR Language is now certainly properer and more natural than it was formerly, chiefly fince the Correction that was given by the Rehearsal: And it is to be hoped that the Essay on Poetry, which may be well match'd with the best Pieces of its kind that even AUGUSTUS's Age produced, will have a more powerful Operation; if clear Senfe, joined with home, but gentle Reproofs, can work more on our Writers, than that unmerciful expofing of 'em has done. ADDISON, Spectat. N° 253. WE have three Poems in our Tongue, which are of the fame nature, and cach of them a Masterpiece in its kind: The Effay on Tranflated Verfe, the Efay on Poetry, and the Essay on Criticism. Ld. LANSDOWN, Effay on Unnatural Flights, &c. ROSCOMMON first, then MULGRAVE rofe, like Light, To clear our Darknefs, and to guide our Flight: With steady Judgment, and in lofty Sounds, They gave us Patterns, and they fet us Bounds. The The STAGYRITE and HORACE laid afide, May from their Leffons learn the Road to Fame. Happy the Poet! bleft the Lays! Which BUCKINGHAM has deign'd to praise. GARTH, Difpenfary. Now Tyber's Streams no courtly GALLUS fee, POPE, Effay on Criticism. Yet fome there were among the founder few, And here reftor'd Wit's Fundamental Laws. Such was the Mufe, whofe Rules and Practice tell, Nature's chief Masterpiece is writing well. POPE, Mifcellanies. Muse, 'tis enough, at length thy Labour ends: And thou fhalt live; for BUCKINGHAM Commends. Let Let Crowds of Criticks now my Verfe affail, The Despair. gain'd, in Imitation of OVID. Song. To a Coquet Beauty, The Relapfe. Elegy to the Dutchess of R Love's Slavery. The Dream. To one who accused him of being too fenfual in his Love. The Warning. 24 27 29 3 I 33 34 36 38 40 42 44 On Apprehenfion of lofing what he had newly The Reconcilement. Song, The Recovery. The Convert. The Picture. In Imitation of ANACREON. The 1 57 59 61 |