T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

CONTENTS AND MOTTOS,

VOL. II.

No.

49. Few Books animated by Genius: the great delight

of such as possess it.

"Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est,

Doctum et grammaticum te, Philomuse, putas?" Mart.

50. Original Poems by Mr. Capel Lofft.

"Jam senior, sed cruda viridisque senectus."

Virg.

"Song soothes our pains, and age has pains to soothe."

Young.

51. Greek Ode on Eton, by Mr. Capel Lofft.

"Where once my careless childhood stray'd,

A stranger yet to pain."

Gray.

52. The difficulty of a genuine transcript of the opera-

rations of the mind greater than those, who have

not made the attempt, suppose.

"It is always pleasing to observe, how much more our minds
can conceive, than our bodies can perform." Johnson.

53. Fugitive Poety.

"There stern religion quench'd th' unwilling flame;
There died the best of passions, love and fame."

Pope.

54. Armorial Bearings on the shields of the Grecian

Chiefs, as described by Eschylus.

« Εσχηματισται δ ̓ ἄλπις ἐ σμικρον τροπον.

Eschyl

No.

55. On the beneficence of Providence in bestowing a

sensibility to the charms of Nature; and on the

permanent power of delighting possessed by Poe-

try, which describes them.

"God made the country; but man made the town.”

Cowper.

56. On the allegorical style of poetry of Collins-with

a comparison of it with that of Sackville.

"Not for themselves the toiling artists build,

Not for himself contrives the studious stage:

To distant views by mystic force compell'd,

All give the present to the future age." Mrs. Carter.

59. On the love of Fame.

"Fame is the spur which the clear spirit doth raise

To scorn delights and live laborious days."

Milton

60. A new Translation of Martial's Epigram on the

chief ingredients of human happiness; with Re-

marks on the Capabilities of the Sonnet.

"How blest, who thus by added years improv'd
With cautious steps their lengthen'd journey tread';
And from the task of sultry life remov'd,

Converse with wisdom in its evening shade."

Mrs. Carter.

On evil days tho' fall'n, and evil tongues;

In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round." Miltons

63. Lines by Bloomfield on his Mother's Spindle.

"How sometimes Nature will betray its folly;

Its tenderness; and make itself a pastime

To harder bosoms!"

Shakspeare.

Ibid.

"All love the womb that their first being bred."

64. Memoir of William Habingdon..

"Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori."

Hor.

65. Difference between Thought and Action. Elevated

sentiments not to be taxed with want of sincerity,

nor as useless, because not always followed by

practice.

"Mens cujusque is est quisque."

Cic.

66. On the Inadequacy of Cotemporary Envy and Pre-

judice to the final Suppression or Injury of a well-

founded Fame.

"Whom not th' extended Albion could contain,

From old Belerium to the Northern main,

The grave unites; together now they rest.'

67. Praises of old English Poets, from W. Browne's

Britannia's Pastorals.

"With rough majestic force they mov'd the heart,

And strength and nature made amends for art," Rowe.

No.

68. An account of Quarles's Emblems, with Specimens.

“Dulcia sunt, pura sunt, elegantia sunt, sed non sine nervis.

Sententiæ vero tales ut etiam ad usum civilis vitæ con-

ferant."

69. On false Honour.

"Falsus honor juvat

Scaligeri de Alciati Emblematis.

Quem nisi mendosum et mendacem?"

70. On the Translations of Homer, by Pope and Cow-

si modo ego et vos

Scimus in urbanum lepido seponere dicto,

Legitimumque sonum digitis callemus et aure." Hor.

71. A Latin Translation of Gray's Elegy, by Anstey.

"Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus

Interpres nec desilies imitator in arctum."

Hor.

72. Bishop Warburton's Characters of the Historians of

the Civil Wars.

"Bella plusquam civilia."

Lucan.

73. On Seclusion, amid magnificent Scenery.

"These are the haunts of meditation, these

The scenes, where antient bards th' expiring breath
Extatic felt; and from this world retir'd

Convers'd with angels."

Thomson.

74. On the Love of Retirement expressed by great Men;

and on some Traits in the Character of Algernon

Sydney.

"The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade,

Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,

Where all his long anxieties forgot,

Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,