O Muse! relate (for you can tell alone, Wits have short memories, and dunces none), Relate who first, who last, resign'd to rest; : 621 Whose heads she partly, whose completely blest; What charms could faction, what ambition lull, The venal quiet, and intrance the dull; [wrongTill drown'd was sense, and shame, and right, and O sing, and hush the nations with thy song ! In vain, in vain-the all-composing hour Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! Before her Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away. Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. As one by one, at dread Medea's strain, The sickening stars fade off th' ethereal plain; As Argus' eyes, by Hermes' wand opprest, 637 IMITATIONS. 621 Relate who first, who last, resign'd to rest : Whose heads she partly, whose completely blest] • Quem telo primum, quem postremum aspera Virgo Dejicis? aut quot humi morientia corpora fundis ?' 637 As Argus' eyes,' &c.] VIRG. Et quamvis sopor est oculorum parte receptus, -Vidit Cyllenius omnes OVID. MET. II Clos'd one by one to everlasting rest; In vain! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die. Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; 361 INDEX OF PERSONS AND MATTERS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM AND NOTES. The Numerals show the Book.-The Figures the Verse. ADDISON, ii. 124, 140. Alaric, iii. 91. Alma Mater, iii. 338. Bacon, iii. 215. Boyle, iii. 328. Breval, J. Durant, ii. 126, 238. Broome, i. 146. Brown, iii. 28. Bruin and Bears, i. 101. VOL. III. Caxton, William, i. 149. Cibber, Colley, Hero of the Cibber, jun. iii. 139, 326. China, iii. 75. Concanen, Matthew, ii. 138, Curll, Edm. i. 40, ii. 3, 58, De Foe, Daniel, i. 103, ii. 147. Doctors, at White's, i. 203. Duckit, iii. 179. Dunton, John, ii. 144. Durfey, iii. 146. Dutchmen, ii. 405, iii. 51. Evans, Dr. ii. 116. BB Gidon, Chas. i. 296, ii. 173. Moore, James, ii. 50, &c. Henley, John, the Orator, ii. Ogilby, John, i. 141, 328. Law, William, ii. 413. Quarles, Francis, i. 140. Lintot, Bernard, i. 40, ii. 53. Querno, Camillo, ii. 15. Scholiasts, iv. 232. Shadwell, Thomas, i. 240, Shaftesbury, Lord, iv. 488. Smedley, Jonathan, ii. 291, Sooterkins, i. 126. Tonson, Jacob, i. 57, ii. 68. Vandals, iii. 86. Walker, hat-bearer to Bent- Ward, Edward, i. 233, 296, Ward, John, iii. 34. Webster, ii. 258. Swift, Dr. i. 19, ii. 116, 138, Welsted, Leonard, ii. 207, iii. 331. Tate, Nahum, i. 105, 238. Taylor, John, the Water Poet, iii. 19. iii. 169. Whitfield, ii. 258. Wilkins, ii. 125. Withers, George, i. 296. Theobald, or Tibbald, i. 133, Wren, Christ. iii. 329. 286. Wynkyn de Worde, i. 149. Young, Dr. ii. 116. THE END. |