Friendship is not void of Honor, And Reading wants not her admirers. Where Pallas had fet her name, He was educated at Dublin, And died in London, 4th April, 1774. As to his character, it is ftrongly illuftrated by Mr. Pope's line, "In wit a man, fimplicity a child.” The learned leifure he loved to enjoy was too often interrupted by diftreffes which arose from the opennefs of his temper, and which fometimes threw him into loud fits of paffion; but this impe tuofity tuofity was corrected upon a moment's reflection, and his fervants have been known upon thefe occafions, purposely to throw themselves in his way, that they might profit by it immediately after; for he who had the good fortune to be reproved was certain of being rewarded for it. His difappointments at other times, made him peevish and fullen, and he has often left a party of convivial friends abruptly in the evening, in order to go home and brood over his misfortunes. The univerfal efteem in which his poems are held, and the repeated pleasure they give in the perusal, are striking proofs of their merit. He was a ftudious and correct obferver of nature, happy in the felection of his images, in the choice of his fubjects, and in the harmony of his verfification; and, though his embarraff ed ed fituation prevented him from putting the laft hand to many of his productions, his Hermit, his Traveller, and his Deferted Village, bid fair to claim a place among the most finished pieces in the English language. The excellent poem of Retaliation was only intended for the Doctor's private amusement, and that of the particular friends who were its fubject, and he unfortunately did not live to revise, or even finish it in the manner which he intended. The poem owed its birth to fome preceding circumstances of feftive merriment * * JUPITER and MERCURY, a Fable. By DAVID GARRICK. at HERE Hermes, fays Jove, who with Nectar was mellow, Go fetch me fome clay-I will make an odd fellow; Right at a literary club, to which the doctor belonged, and who proposed to write epitaphs on him. He was called on for Re Right and wrong fhall be jumbled,-much gold and fome drofs; Without cause be he pleas'd, without caufe be he crofs; Be fure, as I work, to throw in contradictions, A great love of truth, yet a mind turn'd to fictions; Now mix these ingredients, which, warm'd in the baking, Turn to learning and gaming, religion and raking. With the love of a wench, let his writings be chafte; Tip his tongue with strange matter, his pen with fine. tafte ; That the rake and the poet o'er all may prevail, For the joy of each sex, on the world I'll beftow it, name; When taliation, and at their next meeting pro produced the poem. The laft work of this ingenious author, was "An History of the Earth and Ani"mated Nature," in 8 vols. 8vo. for which production his bookfeller paid him 8501. When on earth this ftrange meteor no more shall appear, You, Hermes, fhall fetch him-to make us fport here. On Dr. GOLDSMITH'S CHARACTERISTICAL COOKERY, a Jeu. D'Efprit, by David Garrick. ARE these the choice dishes the Doctor has fent us? Is this the great poet whose works fo content us? This Goldfmith's fine feaft, who has written fine books? Heaven fends us good meat, but the devil fends cooks. The |