Pale shrouded beauty, kiffes faint and cold, Or murmur words the parting angels faid. DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON AND HABITATION OF DESPAIR, From Southey's Joan of Arc. An Epic Poem. AN aged Man Sat near, feated on what in long-paft days Had been some sculptured monument, now fall'n Have pierc'd; welcome, welcome to this gloom Where never morning darts the enlivening ray, Refiftlefs through the broken roof the moon The loud blast roar'd Amid the pile; and from the tower the owl Scream'd Scream'd as the tempeft fhook her fecret nest. THE SORROWS OF SUNDAY; AN ELEGY. From the Royal Tour, or Weymouth Amusement. By Peter Pindar, Efq. The intended annihilation of Sunday's barmless Amusement, by three or four moft outrageously zealous Members of Parliament, gave birth to the following Elegy. The bint is borrowed from a small compofition intituled "The Tears of Old May-Day." ILD was the breath of morn: the blushing sky Receiv'd the lufty youth with golden hair, As Scripture fays, "a bridgroom débonnaire;" And wonder'd fad on Kenfington's fair green: And touch'd, with tendereft fympathy, the fcene. Ah! pleas'd am I the humble folk to view; "Why should not man too reft?" No!' cries Sir Dick; • Break Sin's vile bones-pull Satan by the nofe; Give unbelief, the wretch, a rat's-bane dofc; And flop, with malkins of rich Faith, each hole. "Spit in foul Drunkennefs's beaftly mug; Kill, with fharp prayers, each offspring of the Devil; Give to black blafphemy a Cornish hug; And box, with bats of Grace, the ears of Evil. "Sufan, the conftant flave to mop and broom; Ah! L Ah! fhall not they defert the houfe's gloom, Breathe the freth air one moment, and look smart è There let them go to wash their fins away; Poor fouls! and then the feventh be forc'd to go, "Heaven glorieth not in phizzes of difmay; Heaven takes no pleasure in perpetual fobbing; May have her tea and rolls, and hob and nobbing. 'Gainft tea and coffee ne'er did he protest, Enjoy'd, in gardens, by the men of trade. Sweet is White Conduit-houfe, and Bagnigge-wells, "Life with the down of cygnets may be clad! Ah! why not make her path a pleasant track; "No!" cries the Pulpit Terrorist how mad! "No! let the world be one huge hedge-hog's back." "Vice (did his rigid mummery fucceed) Too foon would smile amid the facred walls; Venus, in tabernacles, make her bed; And Paphos find herself amid St. Paul's. "Avaunt, Hypocrify, the folemn jade, Who, wilful, into ditches leads the blind: Denying hackney-coachmen e'en their beer; Yet, Yet, lo! their butchers knock, with flesh repaft; THE MAN OF METHOD: HERE liv'd a Scholar late (a) of London fame, THE A Doctor, (b) and Morofophos (c) his name: ; With (a) When I am very particular in the defcription of the character, I abstain from giving the leaft hint of a real name. Quis rapiet ad fe quod erit commune omnium? or in Le Sage's inimitable language, qui fe fera connoitre mal à propos?" I only give this as a A Character, and fay no more. (6) The word and title of " DOCTOR" is miferably abufed. Erafmus long ago in an Epistle from Louvain in 1520 to the celebrated Cardinal Campeggio, obferved with fome indignation," Unde DOCTORIS titulo gloriantur, nifi UT DOCEANT?" Erafmni Epift. Ed. Lond. Fol. 662. I wish this were written in large characters over the door of the Theatre at Oxford, and the Senate Houfe at Cambridge. (c) Morolophos. i. e. Stultè fapiens-But more prefently of Dr. MOROSO. PHOS, the Man of Method. (d) A learned and useful Profeffor of Natural Experimental Philofophy at Cambridge. See his Works. (e) All the learned world know how Lord Monboddo believed, and still believes, that men had once tails depending from the gable end of their bodies, fuppofing them to go upon all fours. (f) James Earle, Eiq. Senior Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, and Editor of the celebrated PERCIVAL POTT's Works. I have been informed that the notes which Mr. Earle has added are valuable; nor would I pafs in filence the treatifes he has given to the world in his own name, the refult of extenfive practice and obfervation. (g)A young Surgeon of an accurate and philofophical spirit of investigation, from whole genius and labours I am led to think, that the medical art and natural fcience will hereafter receive great acceffions. (b) The With Symonds, and with Grafton's Duke (b) would vie, Af pecial clerk for method and for plan, A little architect in all his fchemes, Refolv'd on ease, his travels were at home, He lov'd, the pride of Chambers and of Soane. (m) And (b) The Duke of Grafton the Chancellor, and John Symonds, L.L. D. Profeffor of Modern Hiftory in the University of Cambridge, have both attracted the public attention by their various Hints and Obfervations on fubjects of Strip ture. (i) See the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Chap. 1. How Dr. Cornelius obferved all the rules given by the antients to those who defire to generate children of wit, which Dr. Morofophos magnanimously disregarded. He neither cared for the South or the Weft Wind. (k) The three great, yet familiar, Letter-witers of the age are, John Nicholls, Efq. M. P. for Tregony, 1797. Sir James Murray (Pulteney) Secretary to the Duke of York in Germany, and the Rev. Dr. Randolph.-See "A Pair of Epiftles in verse, with notes: the first to the Rev. Dr. Randolph, &c." and edition, 1796. I recommend them to the general entertainment, and perhaps inftruction of the publick. (1) That ingenious, accomplished, and very learned gentleman, ANDREW LUMISDEN, Esq. F.A.S. Edinb. has fince that time taught us all, in the moft agreeable scholar-like manner. See his "Remarks on the Antiquities of RoME and its Environs, being a claffical and topographical Survey of the Ruins of that celebrated City." 4to. 1797. It is a pleafing and moft judicious performance of a Gentleman who appears to have enjoyed the united advantages of foreign travel, ftudious leifure, and polite company. (m) Two celebrated architects. The profeffional knowledge of Sir W. Chambers, Knight, (of mot beroick memory) was profound and fubftantial. - Mr. Soane has more fancy and airiness of defign, and is certainly a man of information and ingenuity. But he indulges himfelt a little too much in extravaganzas and whims. See the Bank. (n) I am obliged for this information to a Fellow of the S. of Antiquaries.— Mr. |