Not think it hard?—-Burft into tears, my Souf; To guide, perfuade to that celeftial reft Thofe hours are gone! and here, from Heaven' fhut out, Bet of my GOD,-I only hear around The difmal clang of chains; the hoarfe rough flout Of Mifery and Vice, in tearful din Impetuous mingled; while my frighted mind My fickly cheeks; and whirling thought confus'd Not know?-Alas! too well it ftrikes my heart, Give me the Angel's Clarion!-Let me found, Referring more inmediately to the Duty of the Magdalen-Chapel, MILTON. Par. L. B. 5. 540. To To shake the potent incantation off; Know'ft fympathetic how to aid the TRIED! Through rocks, fands, pirates, ftorms, and boisterous waves, It is in this ftile, the writer proceeds through the feveral pages of this extraordinary production, throughout the whole of which he appears to poffels a confidence and prefence of mind, altogether wonderful to those who are unacquainted with the powerful fupports of hope and vanity. We would willingly impute thefe florid effufions to the beft caufe; and therefore fhall fupprefs the reflections, which might justly be made on the conduct of the too fanguine friends of this celebrated convict, in buoying him conftantly up with hopes of pardon, and at laft even with that of life, after the execution of his fentence. We hope it was not owing to fuch hopes that the Doctor found himself fo much at eafe, as he feems to have been in dictating fome of the paffages, contained in this work. Let this delinquent divine alfo have been as fincere a believer, as he may, it is with an ill grace that in his circunftances he cafts cenfure on infidels of any kind, particularly on fuch cha→ racters as the late Mr. Hume. There appears farther fomething egregiously vain and felf-important in his writing a long prayer the night previous to his fuffering, if indeed he can be fuppofed at fuch a time to have amufed himself with feribbling. Ꮴ . So at least it has been faid by the celebrated writer, who is well.dwa to have afi fted him in fame of his productions after his confinement.. The The Hiftory of Mifs Temple. By a Young Lady. 12mo. 2 vol. 5s. Wallis. From the dedication of this work, to Mr. Aikin of Warrington, we learn the author's name to be Mifs Rogers; of whofe literary talents we are given to understand this is the first public fpecimen. By fome accident or other, an account of this novel, which fhould have appeared fome time ago, has been mislaid, or we fhould have done earlier juftice to the merits of a work, whofe elegance of ftile. delicacy of fentiment, and propriety of character, do great honour to the genius and good fenfe of fo young a writer." The Thoughtless Ward. A Novel. By a Lady. 12mo. 35. Lowndes. A novel, written fome years ago, under the title of Betly Thoughtless, feems to have afforded a hint for the prefent performance. The former, however, was better written, and more entertaining; although the work before us is not without a tolerable fhare of merit. The Mutability of Human Life; or Memoirs of Adelaide, Marchionefs of Melville. 3 vol. 12mo. 7s. 6d. Bew. An ill-written tale, full of mutabilities, improbabilities, and impoffibilities; and yet it is neither impoffible nor improbable that it will afford entertainment and find admirers among your lovers of mutabilities. We are not among thofe, however, who are fo much "given to change." The New English Theatre. Containing the most valuable Plays; which have been acted on the London Stage. 12mo. Lowndes. The old proprietors of the plays, ufually performed on the ftage, have here given a proof of their difpofition, to fpare no expence in giving the public an embellished edition of them at an eafy expence. Their plays, of which ten volumes are already already publifhed, are fold at the ufual price of fix-pence each, although the frontispieces reprefenting the favourite actors in capital parts, muft have coft them a very confiderable fum for the defign and execution; in which they have employed the beft artists. We wish we could fay as much in favour of the letter-prefs; to whofe greater accuracy we would recommend the editor's future attention. A New poetical Translation of all the Odes of Horace. 8vo. 6s. fewed. Johnson. After Creech, Francis, and Duncombe, we were in' little want of new tranflations of Horace'; except, indeed, of a more poetical one; which if this tranflator had given us, he would have merited our thanks. But, alas! if theirs were fometimes too profaic, that of the prefent verfifier is ten times worse. Take, reader, a ftanza or two from the fixteenth ode, on which he has profeffedly taken uncommon pains. "Prometheus, when he first began And from the lion's fiery heart, From wrath what train of evils flows? -- In defolation rent, If you recall your angry part, In whilom kindly flame! What fay you, Reader? Have the Gods made our tranffator poetical, think you, or not?-If not, let it be remembered the poor man cannot help it, and therefore candour may excufe him. The The Trial, at large, of John Horne, Efq upon an Information filed ex officia, by his Majefty's Attorney-General, for a Libel before the Right Hon. William Earl of Mansfield, in the Gourt af King's Bench, Guildhall, July 4, 1777. Published by the Defendant, from Mr. Gurney's Short-hand Notes. Fol. 35% 1. Kearfly.. The libel which gave occafion for this trial, was an advertisement published by the fociety at the Standard Tavern, in 1775, requesting fubfcriptions for the Americans, who were then firft oppofed by the king's troops, in the province of Maffachufets. This advertisement, charging thofe troops with having murdered the provincialifts in the affair of Lexington, was figned, it fecms, by Mr. Horne, who avowed the figna ture, and pleaded his own caufe on his trial. This is too long and too diffufe to admit of abftract: a confiderable part of it being foreign to the point in queftion; confifting of a mere perfonal (quabble between the judge, the attorney-general and the defendant: a fquabble beneath the dignity of the court, and which we wonder it entered into, as fuch a defence was evidently defigned to ferve no other purpose than to render, if poffible, the pleader a little popular. Whether it will have that effect or not, time will fhew. *** Hiftorical Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the late Rev. William Dodd, LL. D. from his entrance into Clare-ball, Cambridge, in 1745, to his fatal exit at Tyburn, June 27, 1777. 8vo. I s. 6d. Fielding and Walker. This writer pretends to a particular knowledge of the unhappy fubject of his memoirs; affirming that he has afferted nothing but from perfonal knowledge, or, the most authentic information. In fome particulars, however, he is, on our own certain knowledge, miftaken; in other refpects, his Memoirs are exact and entertaining. ta The Apparition or Dr. Dodd's laft Legacy. Addreffed to 4to. Is. Bull, in Bell-Yard. Lord This is not the Cock-lane ghoft, but the Bell-yard ghoft;. which Mr. Bell has here railed to the tune of the Bell-man's verses. Poems |