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SIR, Bath, Oct. 12. HE following jeu d'efprit was the production of the prefent Dean of Derry, Dr Barnard, who advanced, in converfation with Sir Joshua Reynolds and other wits, that he thought "no man could improve when he was paft the age of forty five." Johnfon, who was in company, immediate ly turned round to the facetious Dean, and told him, that he was an inftance to the con trary, for that there was great room for im provement in him (the Dean), and wished he'd fet about it: upon which, the Dean the next day fent the following elegant bagatelle to Sir Joshua Reynolds and the fame company. REGULUS SECUNDUS.,

To Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS and Co.
By the DEAN of DERRY.
Lately thought no man alive,

I cou'd e'er improve paft forty-five,

And ventur'd to affert it;

The obfervation was not new,
But feem'd to me so just and true,

That none cou'd controvert it.

"No, Sir," fays Johnson, "'tis not so;
That's your mistake; and I can fhew,
An inftance if you doubt it;
-You, Sir, who are near forty-eight,
May much improve, 'tis not too late;
I wish you'd fet about it."
Encourag'd thus to mend my faults,
I turn'd his counsel in my thoughts,
Which way I fhou'd apply it;
- Learning and wit feem'd paft my reach,
For who can learn when none will teach?

And wit-I cou'd not buy it.

Oh! cou'd we read thee backwards too, Laft thirty years thou shouldft review, And charm us thirty more.

If I have thoughts, and can't exprefs.e'm,
Gibbons fhall teach me how to drefs 'em
In terms felect and terfe;
Jones teach me modefty and Greek,
Smith how to think, Burke how to speak,
And Beauclerc to converfe.

Let Johnfon teach me how to place,
In faireft light, each borrowed grace;
From him I'll learn to write;
Copy his clear familiar style,
And from the roughness of his file,
Grow like himself— polite.

ODE. Written on the Pedestal of a Modern
Diana. By the late Earl of Orrery.

EE! where DIANA's radiant charms,

Stall their pow'r confeft,

Reprove the eye her Beauty warms,
And check each wifhful breast.

Well may the marble, taught by art,
Each forward hope controul;

For while her fmiles attract the heart,
Her chaftenefs wins the foul.
Her meek and half-averted eye

To each beholder tells,
Virtue can Paffion's fuit deny,

And with her Virtue dwells.
Yet while the goddess I survey,
I burn with fierce defire;
What eyes can o'er fuch beauty stray?
What heart refift the fire?

To her I run with eager pace,

And call her all my own;

You can inform me if you will,

(My books are at a distance);

With you I'll live and learn, and then
Inftead of books, I fhall read men,

So lend me your affiftance.

Dear Knight of Plympton, teach me how To fuffer with unruffled brow,

And fmile ferene like thine; The jeft uncouth, or truth fevere, To fuch I'll turn my deafest ear,

And calmly drink my wine. Thou fay'st, not only skill is gain'd, But genius too may be attain'd,

By ftudious imitation;

Thy temper mild, thy genius fine,
I'll copy till I make thee mine,

By conflant application.

Thy art of pleasing, teach me, Garrick,
Thou t, who reverest odes Pindaric,
A fecond time read o'er;

• Sir Joshua Reynolds.

✦ Garrick being asked to read Cumberland's Odes, laughed immoderately, and affirmed, that VOL. XXXVIII.

She proves a very stone!

Oh! that Pygmalion's fate were mine,
And, to indulge my flame,
Some pitying god with breath divine
Would animate the frame!

My goddess, tho' transform'd, might share
The fame he had of old;

Might fhine to all, like marble fair,
To all but me -as cold!

B

On a tomb-ftone in Royston church-yard.
Eneath this peaceful ftone here lies
To cruel love a facrifice:

But, reader, mind, the youth was flain By his papa's, not girl's disdain; For when the lover went to woo, The maid faid, Yes, the Father, No; So through mere rage to be deny'd, He broke his heart, and fo he died. fuch fluff might as well be read backwards as for wards; and the witty Rofcius accordingly read them in that manner; and, wonderful to relate! produced the fame good fenfe and poetry as the fen timental Author ever had genius to write. 4 A

A Request to the DIVINE BEING.
Hou great and facred Lord of All,

To life the only spring.

Creator of unnumber'd worlds,
Immenfely glorious King!

Whofe image hakes the ftaggering mind,
Beyond conception high,
Crown'd with omnipotence, and vail'd
With dark eternity!

Drive from the confines of my heart
Impenitence and pride,
Nor let me in erroneous paths
With thoughtless idiots glide.
Whate'er thy all difcerning eye
Sees for thy creatures fit,
I'll blefs the good, and to the ill
Contentedly fubmit.

With human pleasure let me view
The profperous and the great;
Malignant envy let me flee,

With odious felf-conceit.

Let not despair, nor curs'd revenge,
Be to my bofom known;
O give me tears for others woes,
And patience for my own!
Feed me with neceffary food,

I ask not wealth nor fame,

But give me es to view thy works,
And fenfe to praise thy name.
And when thy wisdom thinks it fit
To shake my troubled mind,
Preferve my reafon with my grief,
And let me not repine.
May my ftill days obfcurely pafs
Without remorse or care;
And let me for the parting hour
My trembling ghost prepare!

The globe of the fun is one million three hun dred fi ty-eight thousand eight hundred and nine times bigger than that of the earth, by obfervation of the last tranfit of Venus; and, doubtless, all the fixed fears are funs of the fame fize as this of ours. [xxv. 665.]

To HOPE. By

O

DAVIS, Efq; Thou whofe fweetly plealing fway, Our willing hearts with joy obey, O Hope! my pray'r attend:

The pray'r of one whofe tortur'd heart, Pierc'd by Affliction's fharpeft dart,

Finds thee its only friend.

'Midt all the pangs which rend my breast,
And long have robb'd my foul of reft,
On thee I ftill rely;

For Heaven in mercy fent thee here,
And bade thee wipe the bitter tear

That ítreams from Sorrow's eye.
O'er all mankind thy care extends;
Thy balm the guilty wretch defends,
From madness and defpair;

To stop stern Juftice in her course,
Thou teacheft him the wondrous force,
Of penitence and pray'r.
Virtue by tyrant Pow'r opprefs'd,
Friendlefs, afflicted, and distress'd,

By thee is taught to rife;

And, conscious of her heav'nly birth,
To fcorn the narrow bounds of earth,
And claim her kindred skies.

'Tis thine to pierce the difmal gloom, Where Sorrow weeps o'er Friendship's tomb, And hail that happy shore,

Where Pleasure fhall for ever reign,
Where virtuous Love unites again,
And friends fhall part no more.

'Midft tort'ring racks and fcorching fires,
The hero whom thy voice infpires,

In confcious virtue brave, Triumphantly resigns his breath,

And plucks the fting from vanquish'd Death,
The vict'ry from the grave.

Oh may thy kind, thy gentle pow'r,
Suftain me in that dreadful hour,

When Nature fhrinks aghaft!

When Death's cold hand thefe eyes fall clof,
And my long pilgrimage of woes
Shall have an end at last.

When the pale lamp of life expires,
When Reason calm, and Fancy's fires
Have left my panting breaft;
Oh ftill my lovely cherub stay,
And bear my parting foul away,
To realms of endless reft!

The NEW DIVINITY.

E who first taught the grape to ftrain,

HAnd the, delight of gods and men,

Have many a founding name:
Lyæus, Bacchus charm his ears;
Well-pleas'd the Cytherea hears,
And Laughter-loving dame.
Them to adorn, in every clime,
The fculptor's tool, the poet's thyme,

And painter's touch combine:
But, Mighty God of Eating! thou,
Thy power though all mankind allow,
Canft call no honour thine.
To nameless thee no temples rife,
No vows are paid, no facrifice

By holy hands is burn'd:
To thee, even at a city-feast,
Nor fong was ever yet addrest,
Nor grateful thanks return'd,
Ye epicures of claffic wit,
Invent an apellation fit

For fuch a god to bear:
Then after each luxurious treat,
To him let fated guests repeat
An univerfal pray'r
March 1776.

Lond. Mog.