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With aspect chafte forbidding loose defire,
Tenderly fmiling, in whofe heavenly eye

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DULCE RIDENTEM Lalagen

of Horace, which he is fuppofed to have taken from the

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Sits pureft love enthron'd]

Philips, while a ftudent in the Univerfity, as we are told in the BroGRAPHIA BRITANNICA, much admired the daughter of the Reverend Dr. Meare, then Principal of Brazen-Nofe College, who, being a native of Herefordfhire, often invited his young countryman to vifit him. Our Poet foon conceived a violent paffion for the young lady, who was extremely accomplished. In perfon fhe is defcribed to have been an agreeable brunette, without any thing very ftriking except a full black piercing eye. Being proud of her fituation in the Univerity, and vain of her accomplishments, fhe treated her admirer with fo much difdain, that he never ventured to hint his paffion to her, but contented himself with pouring out his complaints in verfe.-He mentions his hopeless love for this lady in his charming Latin Ode, to his Patron St. John, where, as well as in this place, he seems to mark the impression that sher full black piercing eye" had made upon him.

Tu forte felix ; me Maria

Macerat (ah miferum!) videndo:
Maria, quæ me SIDEREO tuens
Obliqua VULTU per medium jecur
Trajecit, atque excuffit omnes
Protinus ex animo Puellas.
Hanc, ulla mentis fpes mihi mutuæ
Utcunque defit, nocte, die vigil
Sufpiro; nec jam Vina fomnos,

Nec revocant, tua dona, Fumi,

Mr. Newcombe in his tranflation of this paffage has ftuck rather closer to the original, and been somewhat more fortunate than in the preceeding parts of this admirable ode.

Maria's form as I furvey

Her fmiles a thoufand wounds impart,

Each feature fteals. my foul away,

Each glance deprives me of my heart,
And chafing thence each other fair
Leaves its own image only there.

Altho

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Gladly both rich and low feek aid; moft wife
Interpreter of right. -1

L. II. Ode vi.

Author's very particular friend, for whofe affectionate regard he preffes fo much gratitude, was Thomas, fecond fon of Sir John r Secretary of State to Charles II. by Ruth his wife, daughter in Hampden of Great Hampden in the county of Bucks. He orn in the year 1660, and was educated, together with the Lords d and Harcourt, at Mr. Birch's School at Shilton near Burford. ng been bred to the ftudy of the law, he was made Solicitor General 2, and Attorney General three years afterwards. On the acceffion een Anne, he was appointed Chief Juftice of the Common Pleas, and, mber 11, 1711, was created a Peer, by the title of Lord Trevor of ham in the county of Bedford.. He married first Elizabeth, ter of John Searle Efq. of Finchley in the county of Middlesex,

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Breathes equity, and curbs too rigid law
With mild impartial reason; what returns
Of thanks are due to thy beneficence
Freely vouchfaf'd, when to the gates of Death
I tended prone! If thy indulgent care
Had not preven'd, among unbody'd shades

705

I now had wander'd, and these empty thoughts 710 Of Apples perifh'd; but, uprais'd by thee,

I tune my pipe afresh, each night and day

by whom he had two fons, Thomas and John, fucceffively Lord Trevors, who both died without iffue male. By his fecond wife Anne, daughter of Robert Weldon, Efq. and widow of Sir Robert Bernard, Bart. he left two fons, Robert, fourth Lord Trevor, created, June 8, 1761, Vifcount Hampden; and Richard, late Bishop of Durham.

708.

thy indulgent care.]

The fingular kindness and attention of this affectionate friend to our Author, which is here fo handfomely and gratefully acknowledged, was alfo noticed in a particular manner after his death, in the verses which Edmund Smith, upon that occafion,. addreffed to the fame benevolent perfon, then Lord Chief Juftice of the Court of Common Pleas.

Your care had long his fleeting life restrain'd,
One table fed you, and one bed contain'd:
For his dear fake long reftless nights you bore,
While rattling coughs his heaving veffels tore;
Much was his pain, but your affliction more.
O had no fummons from the noisy gown
Call'd thee, unwilling, to the naufeous town,
Thy love had o'er the dull disease prevail'd,
Thy mirth had cur'd where baffled phyfic fail'd.
But fince the will of heaven his fate decreed,
To thy kind care my worthless lines fucceed;
Fruitlefs our hopes, tho' pious our essays,
Thine to preferve a friend, and mine to praife.
Preven'd.]

709.

Milton ufes the participle prevenient.

from the mercy-feat above

PREVENIENT grace defcending had remov'd

The ftony from their hearts

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P. L. xi. 2.

Thy

721.

Some loose the bands

Of ancient friendship, &c. &c.] us Virgil, GEORGIC. ii. 503.

Sollicitant alii remis freta cæca, ruuntque
In ferrum; penetrant aulas et limina regum:
Hic petit excidiis urbem miferofque Penates,
Ut gemmâ bibat, et Sarrano indormiat oftro:
Condit opes alius, defoffoque incubat auro.
Hic ftupet attonitus roftris : hunc plaufus hiantem
Per cuneos (geminatur enim) plebifque, patrumque,
Corripuit; gaudent perfufi fanguine fratrum,
Exilioque domos et dulcia limina matant,
Atque alio patriam quærunt fub fole jacentem.
Some brave the tempefts of the roaring main
Or rush to dangers, toils and blood for gain;
Some ravage lands, or crowded cities burn,
Nor heed how many helplefs widows mourn,
To fatiate mad ambition's wild defire,
To quaff in gems, or fleep on filks of Tyre:
This to folicit fmiles of Kings reforts,
Deep practis'd in the dark cabals of courts ;
This low in earth conceals his ill-got ftore,
Hov'ring and brooding on his ufelefs ore;
This doats with fondness on the roftrum's fame,
To gain the prize of eloquence his aim ;
The people's and patrician's loud applause
To crowded theatres another draws;
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For pageantry and tawdry gewgaws. Some
Renounce their fires, oppofe paternal right

For rule and power, and others' realms invade 725
With fpecious fhews of love. This traiterous wretch
Betrays his fovereign. Others, destitute

Of real zeal, to every altar bend,

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By lucre fway'd, and act the basest things
To be ftyl❜d honorable. The honest man,
Simple of heart, prefers inglorious want
To ill-got wealth: rather from door to door,
A jocund pilgrim, though distress'd, he'll rove,
Than break his plighted faith: nor fear, nor hope

Some shed a brother's blood, and trembling run
To diftant lands beneath another fun;

Condemn'd in hopeless exile far to roam

From their sweet country and their facred home.

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Renounce their fires, oppofe paternal right

For rule and power, and others' realms invade
With Specious fhews of love.]

WARTON.

This allufion is very palpable: and we cannot but grieve to fee the very beautiful conclufion of this book thus tarnished by being made the vehicle of party virulence.Pope, in the following lines, may be fuppofed to glance the fame way, though he does not fpeak out fo directly.

Laft, those who boast of mighty mischiefs done,
Enslave their country, or ufurp a throne,

Or who their glory's dire foundation lay'd
On fov'reigns ruin'd, or on friends betray'd;
Calm, thinking villains, whom no path could fix
Of crooked councils and dark politics;

Of these a gloomy tribe furround the throne,
And beg to make th' immortal treafons known.

734. Than break his plighted faith.]

TEMPLE OF FAME, V. 406

Many of Philips's nearest relations and moft particular friends, were

rigid

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