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Cur alter fratrum ceffare, et ludere, et ungi
Præferat Herodis palmetis pinguibus; alter
Dives et importunus, ad umbram lucis ab ortu
Silveftrem flammis et ferro mitiget agrum:
Scit Genius, natale comes qui temperat aftrum:
NATURE DEUS HUMANE, mortalis in unum-
Quodque caput, vultu mutabilis, albus, et ater.

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.

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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:

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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

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Plows, burns, manures, and toils from fun to fun;
The other flights, for women, sports, and wines,
All Townshend's Turnips, and all Grosvenor's mines:
Why one like Bu-with pay and fcorn content,
Bows and votes on, in Court and Parliament;
One drivʼn by strong Benevolence of foul,
Shall fly, like Oglethorpe, from pole to pole :
Is known alone to that Directing Pow'r,
Who forms the Genius in the natal hour;
That God of Nature, who, within us ftill,
Inclines our action, not constrains our will;
Various of temper, as of face or frame,

Each individual: His great End the fame.

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Yes, Sir, how finall foever be my heap,

A part I will enjoy, as well as keep.

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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,
NATURA DEUS HUMANE."

WARBURTON,

Quod non plura datis invenerit. et tamen idem
Scire volam, quantum fimplex hilarifque nepoti
Difcrepet, et quantum difcordet parcus avaro.
Diftat enim, fpargas tua prodigus, an neque fumptum
Invitus facias, nec plura parare labores;

Ac potius, puer ut feftis Quinquatribus olim,
Exiguo gratoque fruaris tempore raptim.
'Pauperies immunda procul procul abfit: ego, utrum
Nave ferar magna an parva; ferar unus et idem.
Non agimur tumidis velis Aquilone fecundo :
Non tamen adverfis ætatem ducimus Auftris.
Viribus, ingenio, fpecie, virtute, loco, re,
Extremi primorum, extremis ufque priores.

Non es avarus: abi. quid? cætera jam fimul isto
Cum vitio fugere? caret tibi pectus inani
Ambitione? caret mortis formidine et ira?
Somnia, terrores magicos, miracula, fagas,
Nocturnos lemures, protentaque Theffala rides?
Natales grate numeras? ignofcis amicis?

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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
A man fo poor would live without a place:
But fure no statute in his favour fays,
How free, or frugal, I fhall pass my days:
I, who at fome times fpend, at others fpare,
Divided between careleffnefs and care.
'Tis one thing madly to difperfe my store;
Another, not to heed to treasure more;
Glad, like a Boy, to fnatch the first good day,
And pleas'd, if fordid Want be far

away.

f What is❜t to me, (a paffenger God wot,)
Whether my veffel be firft rate or not?
The Ship itself may make a better figure,
But I that fail, am neither lefs nor bigger,
I neither strut with ev'ry fav'ring breath,
Nor ftrive with all the tempeft in my

teeth.

In pow'r, wit, figure, virtue, fortune, plac'd
Behind the foremost, and before the laft.

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"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?
Not the black fear of death, that faddens all?

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With terrors round, can Reason hold her throne, 310
Despise the known, nor tremble at th' unknown?
Survey both worlds, intrepid and entire,

In spite of witches, devils, dreams, and fire?
Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birth-day with a grateful mind?

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Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta?

Quid te exempta levat fpinis de pluribus una?

h Vivere fi recte nefcis, decede peritis.

Lufifti fatis, edifti fatis, atque bibisti:

Tempus abire tibi eft: ne potum largius æquo Rideat, et pulfet lafciva decentius atas.

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