59. Sold by one minister— -,] Cardinal Wolsey. 60. the pious Youth too slightly seen ;] Edw. III. -a weak Romish Queen.] Mary. ib. ib. of Bohemia. -his beggar'd Daughter-] Queen 61. Poison'd one son, and t’other sent to Spain.] Prince Henry, and Charles I. ib. the Priest, more Romish still than her ;] Archbishop Laud. ib. -the next Prince, expelled his native land,] Charles II. ib. His Hero son in Freedom's beauteous cause. •] William III. ib. -unhappy still! howe'er Posterity the gallant action bear.] Infelix utcumque ferent ea facta minores. VIRG. 62. To willing Indians deals out equal laws, -Volentes Per populos dat jura, viramque affectat Olympo. VIRG. ib. What time fair Florence on her peaceful shore, Has lap'd me trifler in inglorious ease, Illo Virgilium me tempore dulcis alebat VIRG. EPISTLE VIII. Page 63. The amiable and accomplished young Nobleman who is addressed in this Epistle, after having given to his Parents and Country the fairest hopes, was cut off at Bologna, the 11th of September, 1744, by the small pox, on the evening of his nineteenth birth-day. Dr. Dalton, his tutor, the author, was born near Whitehaven in Cumberland, and educated in Queen's College, Oxford. He took his doctor's degree in the year 1750, and at his death in 1763, was prebendary of Worcester and rector of St. Mary at Hill, in London. Besides his poems in these volumes, he obliged the public with a volume of Sermons, and adapted to the theatre the Comus of Milton. EPISTLE IX. Page 74. The Lord Hervey who wrote this Epistle, was John, second son to the first Hervey, Earl of Bristol. He distinguished himself by his attachment to Whiggism, and his zealous support of Walpole. He was called up to the House of Lords in 1733, and died in the life-time of his father. Pope, who had even more malignity than wit, lampooned him without mercy, in the character of Sporus. Lord Hervey, however, though inferior to Pope as a poet, was in other respects a far better writer. His political tracts have rarely been equalled, and he certainly was superior to the Satirist, as a scholar. This address of his Lordship to his Friend, is a paraphrastic imitation of Horace, B. II. Ode 6. 75. Permit me, Ickworth, rest, and health at last,] Ickworth in Suffolk, has long been the residence of the Herveys. EPISTLE XI. Page 85. To Wyndham, strength, and grace, and fire, and weight;] Sir William Wyndham. ib. To Granville parts to save a sinking state.] John Earl of Granville. 92. Before a Lonsdale's head, a Lonsdale's heart.] The late Lord. 102. Bow, Filmer, bow! to hell's tremendous throne,] Sir Robert Filmer, author of “ Patriarcha, or, the "Natural Power of Kings," and other pieces of the same tendency. He was confuted by Mr. Locke, in his Essay on Government. ib. And thou, blest Martyr, in fair Freedom's cause,] Algernon Sydney. EPISTLE XII. Page 106. Where hail and snow renew their treasur'd store:] Job xxxviii. 22. 107. -great Charles, -] Charles V. Emperor of Germany, who in his retirement amused himself with puppets. See STRADA, de bello Belgico. 114. -ere Bernard eat.] A Frenchman, Page 140. name. Page 146. EPISTLE XVIII. That castle opposite,] A castle belonging to the Earl of Oxford. 148. Go, search for Athens, &c.] See Wheeler's Travels, p. 346, 7, 380, 300. ib. Where He, whom only dauntless Philip fear'd,] Demosthenes. EPISTLE XIX. Page 154. -Cowper, Talbot, Somers, York,-] Respectively High Chancellors of Great Britain. ib. sent Earl of Mansfield. -Murray-] The pre EPISTLE XXI. Page 157. Mr. Cooper was of Thurgarton in the County of Nottingham, and possessed from his fa-' ther a considerable fortune. He received his grammatical education at Westminster, and afterwards passed between two and three years at Cambridge, as a fellow-commoner of Trinity. Having married early he retired to his paternal seat, and there died, in 1769, of the stone. THE END. |