visions of a thousand things,

dissolved in thine own melting tears,

Prince of mournful sonneteers.

not their Prince, harmonious BOWLES!

great oracle of tender souls?

sighing winds thou seek'st relief,

on in a yellow leaf;

y muse most lamentably tells

sounds proceed from Oxford bells†, 330

ells delighting, finds a friend,

me that jingled from Ostend?

ME has poured forth two volumes of Cant, under the ith Walks," and "Biblical Pictures."

's Sonnets, &c.-" Sonnet to Oxford," and "Stan

e Bells of Ostend."

thine with gentle LITTLE's moral song,
oothe the mania of the amorous throng!

h thee our nursery damsels shed their tears,
Miss, as yet, completes her infant years:
in her teens thy whining powers are vain;
quits poor Bow LES, for LITTLE's purer strain.
to soft themes thou scornest to confine

lofty numbers of a harp like thine :

vake a louder and a loftier strain*,'

as none heard before, or will again ;

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Awake a louder, &c. &c. is the first line in BOWLES's Spirit of

ery ;” a very spirited and pretty dwarf Epic.

Among other

ite lines we have the following:

kiss

ole on the list'ning silence, never yet

ere heard; they trembled even as if the power," &c. &c.

ne, but pausing on the road, ghs forth a gentle episode*;

y tells-attend each beauteous Miss!

Madeira trembled to a kiss.

thy memory, let this precept dwell,

Sonnets, man! at least they sell.

new-born whim, or larger bribe

crude brain, and claim thee for a scribe,

woods of Madeira trembled to a kiss, very much astohey might be, at such a phoenomenon.

le above alluded to, is the story of "Robert a MaAnna d'Arfet," a pair of constant lovers, who perabove-mentioned, that startled the woods of Madeira.

hou essay; each fault, each failing scan; first of poets was, alas! but man!

e from each ancient dunghill ev'ry pearl,

sult Lord Fanny, and confide in CURLL*; all the scandals of a former age,

h on thy pen and flutter o'er thy page; ct a candour which thou can'st not feel, he envy in the garb of honest zeal;

te, as if St. John's soul could still inspire,

do from hate what +MALLET did for hire.

370

URLL is one of the Heroes of the Dunciad, and was a bookseller. Fanny is the poetical name of Lord HERVEY, author of " Lines Imitator of Horace."

ord BOLINGBROKE hired MALLET to traduce POPE after his debecause the Poet had retained some copies of a work by Lord

rd had crown'd thy glorious gains,

hee to the Dunciad for thy painst.

pic! who inflicts again

of blank upon the sons of men?

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the Patriot King) which that splendid, but malignant

ed to be destroyed.

critic, and RALPH, the rhymester.

ye wolves! while Ralph to Cynthia howls,

night hideous, answer him ye owls!

Dunciad.

s's late edition of POPE's works, for which he received

Mr. B. has experienced, how much easier it is to utation of another, than to elevate his own.