MORAL ESSAYS. EPISTLE 1. P. 207. Ver. 256. Euclio was defigned for Sir Charles Duncombe of Helmfley; who is alluded to again in Imitations of Horace, ii. Sat. ii. fin. And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, and who divided his estates in Yorkshire and Wilts among different branches of his family. B. See note A. in the Biog. Brit. Art. Duncombe William. EPISTLE II. P. 245. Ver. 17. Come then, the colours and the ground prepare! Chufe a firm cloud, before it fall, and in it Catch, e'er fhe change, the Cynthia of this minute. This paffage, of elegance fo exquifitely curious, is indebted for the original conception to Cowley, David. ii. 807. This he with ftarry vapours fpangles all, Took in their prime, e'er they grow ripe and fall: Of a new rainbow, e'er it fret or fade, The choiceft piece took out, the scarf is made. EPISTLE III. P. 271. Ver. 127. The crown of Poland, venal twice an age, A Mr. Gage, of Sir Thomas Gage's family, of Hengrave, I think, near Bury, Suffolk; and Lady Mary Herbert (daughter of the Marquis of Powis), whose mother was a natural daughter of of James II.; whence the phrase hereditary realms. In Bowles's Travels into Spain, is fome account of this scheme of working the Afturian mines. B. Ver. 291. When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend The wretch, who living fav'd a candle's end. Edmund Boulter, Efq. executor to Vulture Hopkins, made fo fplendid a funeral for him, that the expences amounted to 76661. B. Ver. 333. Cutler and Brutus, dying, both exclaim, "Virtue! and Wealth! what are ye but a name?" Dion Caffius, xlvii. 49. "Brutus made an effort to force his way "from the ftrong pofition, whither he had retreated, into the "camp; but, finding this impracticable and learning that fome "of his foldiers had fubmitted to the conquerors, he abandoned himself to defpair: but, difdaining captivity, he refolved on "death; and defired fome of his attendants to dispatch him, "after he had repeated with a loud voice that exclamation of "Hercules, in the Tragedy : "Ah! hapless Virtue! deem'd a truth by me; "But Fortune's flave thou wert, and a mere empty name." EPISTLE IV. P. 321. Ver. 117. Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, An author of congenial taste; and, on a similar subject, has made ufe of this moft happy couplet : And scatter'd clumps, that nod at one another, * Landscape, ii. 6. a poem, which the elegant and ingenious author, by a few lectures on verfification, relative to modes of expreffion too undignified for poetry, and a languishing imbecillity of numbers, would foon polish into greater excellence. The address of Sir Edward Winnington is an admirable specimen of fine tafte and noble fentiment. Ver. Mr. Knight's Poem. Ver. 149. The foft Dean is faid to be Dr. Alured Clarke, Dean of Peterborough. B. Ver. 204. These are imperial works, and worthy kings. From Dryden's Vingil, vi. 1177. Thofe are imperial arts, and worthy thee. END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Strahan and Preston, |