b Cur alter fratrum ceffare, et ludere, et ungi Utar, et ex modico, quantum res pofcet, acervo Tollam : nec metuam, quid de me judicet hæres, NOTES. Quod VER 273. All Townsbend's Turnips,] Lord Townshend, Secretary of State to George the First and Second.-When this great Statefman retired from bulinefs, he amufed himself in Hufbandry; and was particularly fond of that kind of rural improvement which arifes from Turnips; it was the favourite subject of his converfation. WARBURTON. He is faid to have been flow in his parts, rough in his manners, and impatient of contradiction, but generous and humane at bottom; and of ftrong, good judgment. WARTON. VER. 274. like Eu-] Bubb Doddington, afterward Lord Melcombe, whofe curious Diary has difcovered many despicable court-fecrets and mean intrigues. WARTON. VER. 277. fly, like Oglethorpe,] Employed in fettling the Colony of Georgia. РОРЕ. Here are lines that will justly confer immortality on a man who well deferved fo magnificent an eulogium. He was at once a great hero and a great legislator. The vigor of his mind and body have feldom been equalled. The vivacity of his genius continued to a great old age. The variety of his adventures, and the very different fcenes in which he had been engaged, makes one regret that his life has never been written. Dr. Johnson once offered to do it, if the General would furnish the materials. Johnson had a great regard for him, for he was one of the first perfons that highly, in all companies, praifed his London. His first campaign was made under Prince Eugene, against the Turks; and this great General always fpoke of Oglethorpe in the highest terms: Neither b Talk what you will of Tafte, my friend, you'll find Two of a face, as soon as of a mind. Why, of two brothers, rich and restless one 270 275 Plows, burns, manures, and toils from fun to fun; Each individual: His great End the fame. с Yes, Sir, how finall foever be my heap, A part I will enjoy, as well as keep. NOTES. 280 285 My Neither he nor Eugene loved Marlborough. He once told me, (for I had the pleafure of knowing him well,) that Eugene, fpeaking of Marlborough, faid, "There is a great difference in making war en maitre, or en avocat." But his fettlement of the Colony in Georgia gave a greater luftre to his character than even his military exploits. WARTON. VER. 280. That God of Nature, &c.] Here our Poet had an opportunity of illuftrating his own Philofophy; and fo giving a much better fenfe to his Original; and correcting both the Naturalism and the Fate of Horace, which are covertly conveyed in thefe words: "Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum, WARBURTON, Quod non plura datis invenerit. et tamen idem Ac potius, puer ut feftis Quinquatribus olim, Non es avarus: abi. quid? cætera jam fimul isto NOTES. Lenior VER. 302. In pow'r, wit,] The fix words in the Original, "Viribus, ingenio, fpecie, virtute, loco, re," are wonderfully clofe, emphatical, and compact; but I think they could hardly be better expressed than by our Author. He has not, perhaps, fucceeded fo well in imitating another line below, "Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, fagas," a line of admirable brevity. WARTON. VER. 312. Survey both worlds,] It is obfervable with what fobriety he has corrected the licentiousness of his Original, which made the expectation of another world a part of that fuperftition, he would explode; whereas the Imitator is only for removing the false terors from the world of spirits; such as the diablerie of witchcraft and purgatory. WARBURTON. grace My heir may figh, and think it want of away. f What is❜t to me, (a paffenger God wot,) teeth. In pow'r, wit, figure, virtue, fortune, plac'd 290 295 "But why all this of Av'rice? I have none." you joy, Sir, of a Tyrant gone; I wish But does no other lord it at this hour, As wild and mad? the Avarice of pow'r? Does neither Rage inflame, nor Fear appall? 309 305 With terrors round, can Reason hold her throne, 310 In spite of witches, devils, dreams, and fire? VOL. IV. 315 Has |