friend Hogarth, to whom he often promised to sit, and for whom he has left us in his writings many beautiful memorials of his affection, had long laboured to try if he could bring out any likeness of him from images existing in his own fancy; and just as he was despairing of success, for want of some rule to go by in the dimensions and outlines of the face, fortune threw the grand desideratum' in the way. A lady, with a pair of scissars, had cut a profile, which gave the distances and proportions of his face sufficiently to restore the artist's lost ideas of him. Glad of an opportunity of paying this last tribute to the memory of an author whom he admired, Mr. Hogarth caught at this outline with pleasure, and worked with all the attachment of friendship till he finished an excellent drawing, which stands at the head of the new edition of his works.

Mr. Murphy gives the character of Fielding in the following terms: His passions, as the poet expresses it, were trembling alive all o'er: whatever he desired, he desired ardently; he was alike impatient of disappointment or ill usage, and the same quickness of sensibility rendered him elate in prosperity, and overflowing with gratitude at every instance of friendship or generosity: steady in his private at tachments, his affection was warm, sincere, and vehement; in his resentments he was manly, but temperate, seldom breaking out in his writings into gratifications of illhumour or personal satire. It is to the honour of those whom he loved, that he had too much penetration to be deceived in their characters; and it is to the advantage

of his enemies, that he was abore passionate attacks upon them. Open, unbounded, and social in his temper, he knew no love of money; but inclining to excess even in his very virtues, he pushed his contempt of avarice into the opposite extreme of imprudence and prodigality. When young in life he had a moderate estate, he soon suffered hospitality to devour it; and when in the latter end of his days he had an income of four or five hundred a year, he knew no use of money, but to keep his table open to those who had been his friends when young, and had impaired their own fortunes. Though disposed to gallantry by his strong animal spirits, and the vivacity of his passions, he was remarkable for tenderness and constancy to his wife, and the strongest affection for his children. Of sickness and poverty he was singularly patient, and under the pressure of those evils he would quietly read Cicero de Consolatione; but if either of them threatened his wife, he was impetuous for her relief; and thus often from his virtues arose his imperfections. A sense of honour he had as lively and delicate as most men: but sometimes his passions were too turbulent for it, or rather his necessities were too pressing: in all cases where delicacy was departed from, his friends knew how his own feelings reprimanded him. The interest of virtue and religion he never betrayed: the former is amiably inforced in his works; and for the defence of the latter, he had projected a laborious Answer to the posthumous Philosophy of Bolingbroke; and the preparation he had made for it, of long extracts and arguments from the fathers and the most eminent writers of contro

court, and enabled our poet to build himself a house in Ferrara, with a pleasant garden, where he used to compose his poems, which were highly esteemed by all the princes in Italy, who sent him many presents; but he said, "he would not sell his liberty for the best cardinal's hat in Rome." In his diet he was temperate, and so careless of dainties, that he was fit to have lived in the world when they fed upon acorns. Whether he was ever married, is uncertain. He kept company with one Alexandra, to whom, it was reported, he was married privately, and a lady Genevera, whom he slyly mentions in the 24th book of Orlando, as poets are apt to intermix with their fictions some real amours of their own. He was urged to go ambassador to pope Clement, but would by no means accept it. He translated the Meneomi of Plautus: and all his own comedies were so esteemed, that Don Francisco of Este rehearsed the prologue himself in public. He began one of his comedies in his father's life-time, when the following incident shews the remarkable talent he had for poetry. His father one day rebuked him sharply, charging him with some great fault, but all the while he returned him no answer. Soon after his brother began on the same subject; but he easily refuted him, and, with strong arguments, justified his own behawiour. "Why then," said his brother," did you not satisfy my father?" "In truth," said Lodovico, "I was thinking of a part in my comedy, and methought my father's speech to me was so suited to the part of an old man chiding his son, that I forgot I was concerned in it myself, and considered it only to make it

part of my play." Which, by the way, is not near so bad as the story of a famous painter, who having prevailed on a man to be tied naked to a cross to represent a crucified saviour, took occasion to stab him, the better to represent the agonies of death. It is also reported of Ariosto, that coming by a potter's shop, he heard him singing a stave out of his Orlando, with so bad a grace, that, out of all patience, he broke with his stick several of his pots: the potter, in a pitiful tone, asking what he meant by wronging a poor man that had never injured him, "You rascal," he replied, "I have not done thee half the wrong thou hast done me, for I have broken but two or three pots of thine, not worth so many halfpence; whereas thou hast broken and mangled a stanza of mine worth a mark of gold."

Ariosto was tall, of a melancholy complexion, and so absorbed in study and meditation, that he often forgot himself. His picture was drawn by Titian, in a masterly manner. He was honoured with the laurel by the hands of the emperor Charles V, He was naturally affable, always assuming less than was his due, yet never putting up with a known injury, even from his superiors. He was so fearful on the water, that whenever he went out of a ship, he would see others go before him: and, on land, he would alight from his horse on the least apprehension of danger. How inconsistent this with that fiery imagination which could so well describe the courage, strength, and marvellous intrepedity of an Orlando Furioso, as well as of many other renowned and valiant knights, and valiant ladies too! For certainly he was much fitter to

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handle the pen than the sword, and to write advantageously the achievements of others, than afford matter of panegyric, at least, in the manner of these heroes, whose praises he delighted to sing: though, in the opinion of many, the character of a good poet, and a good man, is, at least, equal to that of an honourable warrior, and successful knight

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He lived to the age of 59, and towards his latter end grew infirm, and by much physic injured his stomach. He affirmed that he was willing to die; and the rather, because he heard that the greatest divines were of opinion, that after this life we should meet and know our friends; saying, to those that stood by, "that many of his friends were departed whom he had a great desire to see; and that every hour seemed to him a year, till he might visit them." He died in Ferrara, in the year 1533: and there was scarce a man that could write, but honoured him with an epitaph.

the name of another architect, was Inigo Jones, who, if a Table of Fame, like that in the Tatler, were to be formed for men of real and indisputable genius in every country, would save England from the disgrace of not having her representative among the Arts. She adopted Holbein and Vandyck, she borrowed Rubens, she produced Inigo Jones. Vitruvius drew up his grammar, Palladio shewed him the practice, Rome displayed a theatre worthy of his emulation, and king Charles was ready to encourage, employ, and reward his talents. This is the history of Inigo Jones, as a genius.

He was born about 1572, the son of a cloth-worker; and, by the most probable accounts, was bound apprentice to a joiner; but, even in that obscure situation, the brightness of his capacity burst forth so strongly, that he was taken notice of by one of the great lords at court, who sent him to Italy to study landscape painting, to which his inclination then pointed. He was no sooner at Rome, than he found himself in his proper sphere: he felt that nature had not formed him to decorate cabinets, but design palaces. He dropt the pencil, and conceived Whitehall. In the state of Venice he saw the works of Palladio, and learned how beauti ful taste may be exerted on a less theatre than the capital of an empire. How his abilities distinguished themselves in a spot where they certainly had no opportunity to act, we are not told, though it would not be the least curious part of his history; certain it is, that, on the strength of his reputation at Venice, Christian IV. invited him to Denmark, and appointed him his archi

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tect; but on what buildings he was employed in that country, we are yet to learn. James I. found him at Copenhagen, and queen Anne took him in the quality of her architect to Scotland. He served prince Henry in the same capacity, and the place of surveyor-general of the works was granted to him in reversion. On the death of that prince, with whom at least all his lamented qualities did not die, Jones travelled once more into Italy, and, assisted by ripeness of judgement, perfected his taste. To the interval between these voyages I should be inclined to assign those buildings of Inigo, which are less pure, and border too much upon the bastard style, which one may call King James's Gothic. Inigo's designs of that period are not Gothic, but have a littleness of parts, and a weight of ornaments, with which the revival of the Gre cian taste was encumbered, and which he shook off in his grander designs. The surveyor's place fell, and he returned to England; and, as if architecture was not all he had Jearned at Rome, with an air of Roman disinterestedness, he gave up the profits of his office, which he found extremely in debt; and prevailed upon the comptroller and paymaster to imitate his example, till the whole arrears were cleared.

In 1620, he was employed in a manner very unworthy of his genius: king James set him upon discovering, that is, guessing, who were the founders of Stone-henge.

His ideas were all romanized; consequently, his partiality to his favourite people, which ought rather to have prevented. him from charging them with that mass of barbarous clumsiness, made him conclude it a Roman temple. It is remarkable,

that whoever has treated of that mo nument, has bestowed on it whatever class of antiquity he was peculiarly fond of: and here is not a heap of stones in these northern countries, from which nothing can be proved, but has been made to depose in favour of some of those fantastical hypothesis. Where there was so much room for visions, the Phoenicians could not avoid coming in for the share of the foundation; and, for Mr. Toland's part, he discovered a little Stone-henge in Ireland built by the druidess Gealcopa, (who does not know the dru idess Gealcopa?) who lived at Inisoen, in the county of Donegal.

In the same year Jones was ap pointed one of the commissioners for the repair of St. Paul's; but which was not commenced till the year 1633, when Laud, then bishop of London, laid the first stone, and Inigo the fourth. In the restoration of that cathedral he made two capital faults. He first renewed the sides with very bad Gothic, and then added a Roman portico, magnificent and beautiful indeed, but which had no affinity with the ancient parts that remained, and made his own Gothic appear ten times heavier. He committed the same error at Winchester, thrusting a screen in the Roman or Grecian taste into the middle of that cathedral, Jones indeed was by no means successful when he attempted Gothic. The chapel of Lincoln's-Inn has none of the characteristics of that architecture. The cloister beneath seems oppressed by the weight of the building above.

The authors of the life of Jones place the erecting of the Banqueting house in the reign of king Charles; but it appears, from the accounts of

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