Verfe 559-563. read,

Of harmony and wonder. Different far
She starts indignant on the patriot's eye
Among the fervile herd: her nervous hand
Points as the turns the record, and appeals
To ancient honour; or in act, &c.

568. for the facred, read untrodden.
570. for,

Of all heroic deeds, and fair defires.

read,

Of generous counfels, of heroic deeds. 575-585. read as follows,

Which Hesper sheds along the vernal heaven;
If I from Superftition's gloomy haunts,
Impatient steal, and from th' unfeemly rites.
Of barbarous domination, to attend

With hymns thy prefence in the lonely fhades,
By their malignant footsteps unprofaned.
Defcend, O famous Power, thy glowing mien
Such, and fo elevated all thy form,
As when the great barbarian foiled again,
And yet again diminished, hid his face.
Among the herd of fatraps, and of kings;
And at the lightning, &c.

589. for herois, read unconquer'd.
595 for blooming, read facred.

598. for flight, read meed.

tole sky bj'

Verfe

Verfe 599. for plume, read toil.

601. for,

Thy name, thrice honour'd! with th' immortal praise. To

read,

Thy kindred name to no ignoble praise.

602. for Nature, read Beauty.

BOOK II.

57. for haughty, read jealous.

58. for harmonious, read blessed.
75. for,

To raise harmonious Fancy's native charm.
read,

To raise enamour'd Fancy's native joy.

98, 99. for,

Her awful light difclofes to beftow

A more majestic pomp on beauty's fame?

read,

Her awful front unveils to raife the scene,
And adds to beauty honours not her own?
116. for course, read flight.

210. for baleful charms, read unbleft pomps.
212. for Gracious, read Righteous.
223. for,

A purple cloud came floating thro the sky.

read,

Came floating thro the sky a purple cloud.

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Verfe

Verse 225. for foft'ning forrow, of; read, generous

More ponderous rufh'd the congregated floods,
And louder still refounded.

365. for fresh water'd, read irriguous.

477. for joys, read hopes.

599. for Nature calls, read God commands.

663. for pictures, read phantoms.

664. for, When funfbine fills the bed.

read,

When funfhine rushes on the brow of fleep,

And fills the curtain'd space.

769. for,

Defiled to fuch a depth of fordid fhame.

read,

To fuch a basenefs have not yet depraved.

BOOK

Argument. After the fentence, Final caufe of the fenfe of ridicule, infert, The pleasure from novelty with its final cause.

Verse 7, 8, 9. read thus,

With charms refiftlefs. Not the fpacious west,
Nor all the teeming regions of the south
Contain a quarry, &c.

27. for lovely, read pleafing.

59. for The wicked bear, readWhich guilt endures. 72. for,

I fing of Nature's charms, and touch well-pleas'd.

read,

I fing of good and fair, touching well-pleas'd.

75. for aukward arts, read arts abound.
96. for Some, read This.

98. for Some, read This.

278. Here infert the paragraph B. I. v. 222.

365. for feeds, read works.

366. for attemper'd, read imprinted.

383. for lovelieft, read pleafing.

384. for rowls his daring eye, read darts his Searching eye.

387. for Flit fwift, read Proceed.

Verfe 389. fat Difclofe, read Reveal.

403. for blue ferene, read azure vault.
436. for warbled, read holy.

503. for,

Than space, or motion, or eternal time. read,

Than his own effence, or effential powers.

516. for feelingly, read tenderly.

552. for furious, read frantic.

576. for the only few, read what tho but few.

587. for,

Diftills her dews, and from the filken

Its lucid leaves unfolds.

read,

gem

Unlocks her gems, and from the fpreading leaves Throws her light incenfe round. ́

626. to the end, read as follows:

He meant, he made us to regard and love
What he regards and loves; the life and health
Of general nature; to do good like him
To every being round us. Thus the men,
Whom Nature's frame delights, with God himself
Hold daily converfe; act upon his plan;
And form to his the relish of their fouls.

LETTER