Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast,
Art he invokes new horrors still to bring.

Here mouldering fanes and battlements arise,
Turrets and arches nodding to their fall,
Unpeopled monast'ries delude our eyes,
And mimic desolation covers all.

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"Ah!" said the sighing peer, "had B―te been true,
Nor M-'s, R-'s, B—'s friendship vain,
Far better scenes than these had blest our view,
And realiz'd the beauties which we feign:

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Purg'd by the sword, and purified by fire,
Then had we seen proud London's hated walls;
Owls would have hooted in St. Peter's choir,
And foxes stunk and litter'd in St. Paul's."

Var. V. 11. Could] Cannot. мS.

V. 12. Horrors] Terrors. Nich.

V. 13. Here] Now. Ms.

V. 14. Turrets and arches] Arches and turrets. Ms.
V. 15. Monast❜ries, our] Palaces, his. Ms.

V. 18. These initials stand for " Mungo's, Rigby's, Bradshaw's." See Heroic Epistle, v. 95; and Verses by Lord Holland in returning from Italy, 1767, in Asylum for Fug. Pieces, ii. p. 10:

"But, Rigby, what did I for thee endure,

THE CANDIDATE :

THE CAMBRIDGE COURTSHIP.

of Lord Sandwich in "Chrysal." See Scott's e Novelists, i. p. 169; Davies. Biog. and tes; Churchill's Verses on Lord Sandwich and Duellist ; "From his youth upwards," k's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 117. 148. vol. iv. p. Hiss Hawkins's Anecdotes, p. 239; Bell's Fu, v. xvi. p. 93. 172; Wilkes. Letters, i. p. D; Walpole. Letters to Lord Hertford, p. 51which it appears that Warburton had dedi=rmons to Lord Sandwich, but expunged his 's. I have seen "A letter of advice from Alher beloved son, Jemmy Twitcher, 1764."]

Then he shambles and straddles so oddly—I fearNo-at our time of life 'twould be silly, my dear." "I don't know," says Law, "but methinks for his look,

'Tis just like the picture in Rochester's book; Then his character, Phyzzy,-his morals-his life

To reject him for
Besides, he repen

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Never hang dow
Come buss me-

When she died, I can't tell, but he once had a wife.
They say he's no Christian, loves drinking and

W- -g,

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my private reason

And all the town rings of his swearing and roaring!
His lying and filching, and Newgate-bird tricks;-
Not I-for a coronet, chariot and six."

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Divinity heard, between waking and dozing, Her sisters denying, and Jemmy proposing: From table she rose, and with bumper in hand, She strok'd up her belly, and strok'd down her band

-g:

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"What a pother is here about wenching and roaring!
Why, David lov'd catches, and Solomon w-
Did not Israel filch from th' Egyptians of old
Their jewels of silver and jewels of gold?
The prophet of Bethel, we read, told a lie :
He drinks-so did Noah ;-he swears-so do I:

See Hurd. Obs. on this word, in Cradock. Memoirs, vol. i.

117; and Anecdote, p. 164.

V. 16. But see Cradock. Memoirs, vol. iv. 166.

Cradock. iv. 223.

LONG as of y Me may Cas Fast by the Where Aga Orroused b

I'd in the rin

Give me to

My soul in
Let on this
There bloo

n for such peccadillos, were odd; repents-for he talks about G**. [To Jemmy]

down your head, you poor penitent elf, ne-I'll be Mrs. Twitcher myself.""

uding couplet is too gross to give. ED.] lection I am sure Lord Sandwich was aware bout the time he offered himself as high ary to his usual maxim of not seeing an ic occasions, he once said to me, "I have sons for knowing his absolute inveteracy." 23.

EXTRACTS.

TIUS, LIB. III. ELEG. V. v. 19.
In primâ coluisse Helicona juventâ," &c.

IMITATED.

outh the joyous hours remain, talia's sweet recess detain, Imbrageous vale lull'd to repose, ippe warbles as it flows;

sprightly sounds from out the trance, knit hands, and join the Muses' dance. end the laughing bowl around, Sacchus' pleasing fetters bound; ead unfading flowers reside, the vernal rose's earliest pride;

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Earth's monster The hissing terro Scarce to nine ac

The triple dog th All angry heaven The pendent roc Famine at feasts

And wi.en, our flames commission'd to destroy,
Age step 'twixt Love and me, and intercept the joy;
When my changed head these locks no more shall
And all its jetty honours turn to snow; [know,
Then let me rightly spell of Nature's ways; 15
To Providence, to HIM my thoughts I'd raise,
Who taught this vast machine its steadfast laws,
That first, eternal, universal cause;
Search to what regions yonder star retires,
That monthly waning hides her paly fires,
And whence, anew revived, with silver light
Relumes her crescent orb to cheer the dreary night:
How rising winds the face of ocean sweep,
Where lie the eternal fountains of the deep,
And whence the cloudy magazines maintain
Their wintry war, or pour the autumnal rain;
How flames perhaps, with dire confusion hurl'd,
Shall sink this beauteous fabrick of the world;
What colours paint the vivid arch of Jove;
What wondrous force the solid earth can move, 30
When Pindus' self approaching ruin dreads,
Shakes all his pines, and bows his hundred heads;
Why does yon orb, so exquisitely bright,
Obscure his radiance in a short-liv'd night;
Whence the Seven-Sisters' congregated fires, 35
And what Bootes' lazy waggon tires;

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How the rude surge its sandy bounds control;
Who measured out the year, and bade the seasons

roll;

If realms beneath those fabled torments know,
Pangs without respite, fires that ever glow,

Or are our fears And all the sce

But pictured ho

These soft in

Be love my you

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