Hard by there ran a whimp'ring brook; The Wheel flies up; the Onions fwim; And, for an Onion, damn'd his Soul? * "Il ne manqu'ici, que du fel, *Here wants nothing but falt To make excellent porridge. Art. 29. Ode to the Legiflator Elect of Ruffia, on his being prevented from entering on his high Office, by a Fit of the Gout. 4to. Is. Nicoll. The raillery of this ode is poignant and spirited ;-but as the object of the Author's fatire is unhappily no more, we fhall only add, that the little poem before us was published a few weeks before Dr. B-'s melancholy catastrophe happened; and that an account of it was fent to our printer, for the last month's Review; but it was left out, with other articles, for want of room. Art. 30. Cynthia and Daphne. Tranflated from the Italian of II. Cavalier Marino, with a Dedication in Blank Verse to the Duke of York. 4to. 2s. Almon. The loves of Pan and Apollo, fo elegantly told by claffic pens, are very ill paraphrafed in the Italian, and much worfe tranflated in the English. As a fpecimen of the powers of our Tranflator, take the following extract from his dedication: Black-bearded Jove in majefty fecure, From throne of burnish'd gold wav'd boundless sway, With clamorous accents ranted through the fkies. This Writer feems to be a defcendant of the fublime Sir Richard Blackmore. Art. 31. Providence, written in 1764. By the Rev. Joseph 66 A ftrange farrago of rhyme in profe, or profe in rhyme for inftance: This is very well meant, but The worthy wight, who never would devife Art. 31. Art. 32. The Poor Man's Prayer. Addreffed to the Earl of Chatham. By Simon Hedge. 4to. 6d. T. Payne. This very pathetic elegy cannot be fuppofed to be, in reality, the work of any Simon Hedge,-any unlettered peafant; for it is not unworthy the pen of a Mafon or a Gray.-The fubject is at this time fo critical, and the publication fo feasonable, that our humane Readers will forgive us, if, to fecond the endeavours of our benevolent Bard, we affift him in wafting fome parts of the Poor Man's Prayer to other ears, beside those of the right honourable perfonage to whom it is more immediately addreffed. Lord Chatham is thus folemnly and feelingly called upon, in the fe cond stanza : O Chatham, nurs'd in ancient virtue's lore, To these sad strains incline a fav'ring ear ; Nor turn unpitying from the Poor Man's Prayer.. Honeft Hedge begins, very naturally, the recital of his diftreffes, by a melancholy retrospective view of his former happy ftate, in better times : Ah me! how bleft was once a peafant's life! : Sound were my flumbers, and my heart at rest. But taught by nature, and by choice to wed, When ruddy evening ftreak'd the western sky, Ere fimple nature was debauch'd by art. The little hiftory of their idle day. What a dismal reverfe of this pleafing scene now follows! My Hard by there ran a whimp'ring brook; The Wheel flies up; the Onions fwim; And, for an Onion, damn'd his Soul? *"Il ne manqu' ici, que du fel, Pour faire du potage excellent." * Here wants nothing but falt Art. 29. Ode to the Legiflator Elect of Ruffia, on his being prevented from entering on his high Office, by a Fit of the Gout. 4to. 1s. Nicoll. The raillery of this ode is poignant and fpirited ;-but as the object of the Author's fatire is unhappily no more, we fhall only add, that the little poem before us was published a few weeks before Dr. B-'s melancholy catastrophe happened; and that an account of it was fent to our printer, for the last month's Review; but it was left out, with other articles, for want of room. Art. 30. Cynthia and Daphne. Tranflated from the Italian of II. Cavalier Marino, with a Dedication in Blank Verfe to the Duke of York. 4to. 25. Almon. The loves of Pan and Apollo, fo elegantly told by claffic pens, are very ill paraphrafed in the Italian, and much worfe tranflated in the English. As a fpecimen of the powers of our Tranflator, take the following extract from his dedication: Black-bearded Jove in majefty fecure, From throne of burnish'd gold wav'd boundless sway, With clamorous accents ranted through the skies. This Writer feems to be a defcendant of the fublime Sir Richard Blackmore. Art. 31. Providence, written in 1764. By the Rev. Jofeph 66 A ftrange farrago of rhyme in profe, or profe in rhyme: for inftance: This is very well meant, but The worthy wight, who never would devise Art. 31. Addreffed to the Earl of Art. 32. The Poor Man's Prayer. Lord Chatham is thus folemnly and feelingly called upon, in the fe cond ftanza: O Chatham, nurs'd in ancient virtue's lore, To these sad strains incline a favʼring ear ; Nor turn unpitying from the Poor Man's Prayer. Honeft Hedge begins, very naturally, the recital of his diftreffes, by a melancholy retrofpective view of his former happy ftate, in better times: Ah me! how bleft was once a peafant's life! But taught by nature, and by choice to wed,.. When ruddy evening ftreak'd the western sky, Ere fimple nature was debauch'd by art. Saw round my knees my prattling children play; The little history of their idle day. What a dismal reverse of this pleafing scene now follows! My My faithful wife with ever-freaming eyes On that bare bed behold your brother lie; Bids me and mine o'er barren mountain's roam. The complainant now proceeds to expatiate on the unmerited feverity of his fate, and on the wickedness of those to whom he attributes his fhare of the general mifery in which the poor are involved : Hard was my fare, and conftant was my toil, Is it, that nature with a niggard hand Withholds her gifts from these once favour'd plains? Sent dearth and famine to her lab'ring swains? Untafted plenty wound my craving eyes? My wealthy neighbour's fragrant smoke afcend, The fruits which rain and genial seasons fend? If those fell vipers of the public weal And in the midft of plenty pine away? He concludes with the following ardent fupplication: From thee alone I hope for instant aid, "Tis thou alone can fave my children's breath; O deem not little of our cruel need, O hafte to help us, for delay is death. So may nor fpleen, nor envy blaft thy name, So |