Bat let us ever praise him, and extol His bounty, following our delightful task, Toprune thofe growing plants,and tend thefe flowers, Which were it toilfome, yet with thee were sweet. To whom thus Eve repli'd, O thou for whom And from whom I was form'd, Flefb of thy Flesh, And without whom am to no end, my Guide And Head, what thou haft faid is juft and right. For we to him indeed all Praises owe, Aud daily Thanks, I chiefly who enjoy So far the happier Lot, enjoying thee Preeminent by fo much odds, while thou
Like Confort to thy felf canft no where find, &c.
THE remaining Part of Eve's Speech, in which the gives an Account of her felf upon her first Creation, and the Manner in which fhe was brought to Adam, is I think as beautiful a Paffage as any in Milton, or perhaps in any other Poet whatfoever. These Pallages are all worked off with fo much Art, that they are capable of pleafing the most delicate Reader, without offending the most severe.
That Day I oft remember, when from Sleep, &c.
A Poet of lefs Judgment and Invention than this great Author, would have found it very difficult to have filled these tender Parts of the Poem with Sentiments proper for a State of Innocence; to have described the Warmth of Love, and the Profeffions of it, without Artifice or Hyperbole; to have made the Man fpeak
speak the most endearing Things, without defcending from his natural Dignity, and the Woman receiving them without Departing from the Modefty of her Character; in a Word, to adjust the Prerogatives of Wisdom and Beauty, and make each appear to the other in its proper Force and Lovelinefs. This mutual Subordination of the two Sexes is wonderfully kept up in the whole Poem, as particularly in the Speech of Eve I have beforementioned, and upon the Conclufion of it in the following Lines";
So fpake our general Mother, and with Eyes Of conjugal Attraction unreprov'd, And meek Surrender, half embracing lean'd On our first Father, half her swelling breaft Naked met his under the flowing Gold Of her loofe Treffes hid; he in Delight Both of her Beauty and submissive Charms Smil'd with Superior Love, --
THE Poet adds, that the Devil turned a way with Envy at the Sight of fo much Happiness.
WE have another View of our firft Parents in their evening Difcourfes, which is full of pleafing Images, and Sentiments fuitable to their Condition and Characters. The Speech of Eve, in particular, is dreffed up in fuch a foft and natural Turn of Words and Sentiments, as cannot be sufficiently admired.
I fhall close my Reflections upon this Book, with obferving the mafterly Transition which the Poet makes to their Evening Worship, in the following Lines.
Thus at their fhadie lodge arriv'd, both food, Both turn'd, and under open Sky ador'd The God that made both Sky, Air, Earth and Heav'n Which they beheld, the Moons refplendent Globe And Starry Pole: Thou alfo mad'ft the Night, Maker omnipotent, and thou the Day, &c.
MOST of the modern heroick Poets have imitated the Ancients, in beginning a Speech without premifing, that the Perfon faid thus or thus; but as it is eafie to imitate the Ancients in the Omiffion of two or three Words, it requires Judgment to do it in fuch a Manner as they fhall not be miffed, and that the Speech may begin naturally without them. There is a fine Inftance of this Kind out of Homer, in the Twenty Third Chapter of Longinus.
The End of the Fourth Volume.
BIGALS,(made) in Fa- fhion among the La dies, Vol. 1. Page 251. Abfence in Converfation, a remarkable Inftance of it in Will Honeycomb, V. 1. P. 439. The occafion of this Ab- fence, P. 440, and Means to conquer it, P. 441. The Character of an abfent Man out of Bruyere, P. 443. An Affembly of abfent Men, V. 1. P. 167. Abfence of Lovers, Death in Love, V.3. P. 404. How to be made easy, P. 405,
406. 427. Abftinence, the Benefits of it, V. 3. P. 149.
Academy for Politicks, V. 4. P. 314. The Regulations of it, P. 316, &c. Accompts, their great useful- nefs, V. 3. P. 30. Acofta, his Answer to Limborch, touching the multiplicity of Ceremonies in the Jewish Religion, V. 3. P. 251. Acroftick, a piece of falfe Wit, divided into fimple and compound, V.1. P. 338. Act of Deformity for the Ufe of
the ugly Club, V. 1. P. 97. Action the Felicity of the Soul, V. 2. P. 178. A three- fold Divifion of our A&ti- ons, V. 3. P. 250. No right Judgment to be made of them, V. 3. P. 32.
Admiration, one of the most | pleafing Paffions, Vol. 3. p. 381, but fhort-lived, V. 4. P. 26.
Adverfity, no evil in it felf, V. 3. p. 383. Advertisements, of an Italian Chirurgeon, V. I. p. 125. From St. James's Coffee- houfe, p. 136. From a Gen- tlewoman that teacheth Birds to speak, p. 201. From another that is a fine Flesh- Painter, p. 231. From Mr. Sly the Haberdafher, V. 3. P. 107. About a Lottery Ticket, p. 125. Advice, no Order of Perfons too confiderable to be advif- ed, V. 1. p. 190. Affectation, a greater Enemy to a fine Face than the Small-Pox, V. 1. p. 184. it deforms Beauty, and turns Wit into Abfurdity, p. 208. The Original of it, p. 210. found in the wife Man as well as the Coxcomb, p.111. The way to get clear of it, ibid.
Affliction and Sorrow, not al- ways expreft by Tears, V. 2. p. 76. True Affliction la- bours to be invisible, p. 77. Age, render'd ridiculous. V. 1. P. 36. how contemn'd by the Athenians, and respected by the Spartans, p. 37. The un- natural mifunderstanding between Age and Youth, p. 374 The Authority of an aged virtuous Perfon prefer- able to the Pleafures of Youth, p. 376. A comfor table old Age the Reward of a well-fpent Youth, V. 4 P. 47, 48.
Agreeable Man, who, V. 4.
Albacinda, her Chara&er, P 2. P 329. Alexander the Great,wry Neckt VI. 177. His Artifice in his Indian Expedition, V2. P 242. His Answer to thofe who askt him if he wou'd not be a Competitor for the Prize in the Olympick Games, 394- Amaryllis, her Character, V. 2. 328. Ambition, never fatisfied, V1. P 149. 4. p 28. The Oc cafion of Factions, V2. p. 232. by what to be mea fured, V. 3. p. 108. many Times as hurtful to the Princes who are led by it, as the People, p 174. most Men fubje&t to it,p 280,307. of ufe when rightly dirett ed, p 281. the end of it. 3. P 17. the Effe&ts of it in the Mind, p 27. fubjects us to many Troubles, ib. 3o. the true Object of a laudable Ambition, p 35.
Americans, their Opinion of Souls, 1.3 г2. exempli fied in a Vifton of one of their Couutry-men, † 314. Ample, Lady. her uneasiness, and the Reafon of it, V 1. P 176. Anagram, what, and when firft produced, VI. 337. Andromache, a great Fox-hun- ter, VI. p 320. Animals, the different make of every Species, V2. p 200. The Inftin&t of Brutes, ? 201, &c. exemplified in fe- veral Inftances, p 202, & God himself the Soul of Brutes, p 206. the variety of Arms with which they are provided by Nature, $207. Annihi
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