Save Aëron brave, and Conan strong, HAVE ye seen the tusky boar,* 24 CONAN's name,† my lay, rehearse, As the flame's devouring force; 5 V. 20. In the Latin translation: "Ex iis autem, qui nimio potu madidi ad bellum properabant, non evasere nisi tres. V. 21. Properly 'Conon,' or, as in the Welsh, Chynon.' V. 23. In the Latin translation: "Et egomet ipse sanguine rubens, aliter ad hoc carmen compingendum non superstes fuissem." M. "Gray has given a kind of sentimental modesty to his Bard which is quite out of place." Quarterly Review. *This and the following short fragment ought to have appeared among the Posthumous Pieces of Gray; but it was thought preferable to insert them in this piace, with the preceding fragment from the Gododin. See Jones. Relics, vol. i. p. 17. , In Jones. Relics, vol. i. p. 17, it is Vedel's name; and in turning to the original I see Rhudd Fedel,' as well as in the Latin translation of Dr. Evans, p. 75. V. 2. "He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.” Milt. Lycidas Luke. G As the thunder's fiery stroke, The crimson harvest of the foe. SONNET. ON THE DEATH OF MR. RICHARD WEST. 10 [See W. S. Landori Poemata, p. 186.] IN vain to me the smiling mornings shine, A different object do these eyes require: V. 9. "Primosque et extremos metendo stravit humum, sine clade victor." Hor. Od. iv. 14, 31. V. 1. Milt. P. L. v. 168, "That crown'st the smiling morn.” Luke. V. 2. Lucret. vi. 204, "Devolet in terram liquidi color aureus ignis." Luke. V. 3. Milt. P. L. iv. 602, "She all night long her amorous descant sung." Luke. V. 8. "And in my ear the imperfect accent dies." Dryden. Ovid. Rogers. V. 12. Spens. B. Id. cant. iii. st. 5: "On these Cupido winged armies led, of little loves." Luke. V. 14. A line similar to this occurs in Cibber's Alteration of Richard the Third, act ii. sc. 2: Yet morning smiles the busy race to cheer, To warm their little loves the birds complain : I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more, because I weep in vain. EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLERKE. [See Woty's Poetical Calendar, part viii. p. 121. Nicoll's Select Poems, vol. vii. p. 331.] This lady, the wife of Dr. John Clerke, physician at Epsom, died April 27, 1757; and was buried in the church of Beckenham, Kent. 66 Lo! where this silent marble weeps, "So we must weep, because we weep in vain." 6 Solon, when he wept for his son's death, on one saying to him, Weeping will not help,' answered: Ai avrò dè TOŬTO δακρύω, ὅτι οὐδὲν ἀνύττω· I weep for that very cause, that weeping will not avail.'" See Diog. Laert. vol. i. p. 39. ed. Meibomii. It is also told of Augustus. See also Fitzgeffry's Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, B. 99. "Oh! therefore do we plaine, And therefore weepe, because we weepe in vaine." See also Dodsley's Old Plays, vol. x. p. 139, and Bamfylde's Sonnets, p. 6. ed. Park. V. 1. "This weeping marble had not ask'd a tear." Pope. Epitaph on Ed. D. of Buckingham. And Winds. For. "There o'er the martyr-king the marble weeps," 313. "Orat te flebile Saxum." Burn. Anthol. Lat. vol. ii. p. 282. Affection warm, and faith sincere, She felt the wound she left behind. Sits smiling on a father's woe: Whom what awaits, while yet he strays A pang, to secret sorrow dear; A sigh; an unavailing tear; Till time shall every grief remove, Var. V 7-10. In agony, &c.] "To hide her cares her only art, Was felt for him who could not save 5 10 15 V. 6. "And soft humanity that from rebellion fled," Dryden. Thr. Aug. s. xii. "Bred to the rules of soft humanity," ditto All for Love, act. ii. sc. i. "Oh! soft humanity in age beloved," Pope. Epitaph ix. "The soft virtue of humanity',' A. Smith. Mor. Sent. v. i. p. 310. EPITAPH ON SIR WILLIAM WILLIAMS.* This Epitaph was written at the request of Mr. Frederick Montagu, who intended to have inscribed it on a monument at Bellisle, at the siege of which Sir W. Williams was killed, 1761. See Mason's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 73; and vol. iv. p. 76; and H. Walpole's Lett. to G. Montagu, p. 244. See account of Sir W. P. Williams, in Brydges. Restituta, vol. iii. p. 53; and in Clubs of London, vol. ii. p. 13. "In the recklessness of a desponding mind, he approached too near the enemy's sentinels, and was shot through the body." "Valiant in arms, courteous and gay in peace, HERE, foremost in the dangerous paths of fame, Young Williams fought for England's fair re nown; His mind each Muse, each Grace adorn'd his frame, Nor envy dar'd to view him with a frown. * Sir William Peere Williams, bart. a captain in Burgoyne's dragoons. V. 3. Εἵνεκεν εὐεπίης πινυτόφρονος, ἣν ὁ μελιχρὸς ἤσκησεν Μουσῶν, ἄμμιγα καὶ Χαρίτων. Sophoc. Epit. ed. Brunck. vol. i. p. 10. Τὸν Μώσαις φίλον ἄνδρα, τὸν οὐ Νυμφαίοιν ἀπέχθη. Theocr. Idyll. a. 141, I recollect also the same expression in Gregory Nazianzen's "A thousand Graces round her person play, A. Hill. Poems, vol. iii. p. 60. |