I As to the levity itself, I think it may be said with truth, that its composition must have cost more labour than it is ever likely to pay. It holds of the Italian school; has in it more of sound than sense; and the little sense it has is not much helped forward by the sound; notwithstanding the accelerating power of the letter l, which he has here employed upon the principles of his masters, although with too much profusion, and scarcely with any success. Enough of the letter 7; Representative poetry ; and Poetical Rondeaus.3 See particularly the last Close and Return. > Certain other letters are supposed, by the critics alluded to, to be endowed with an opposite power. The letter V is conceived to be of that order, and as such employed by Virgil in that line of singular alliteration, ÆN. vi. 834, "Neu Patriae Validas in Viscera Vertite Vires !" 3 [The Editor agrees in opinion with the Author of the CRITICISM, in his stricture upon the Pretensions to Novelty, of the Idea, held out in the letter from which the above extract is given, and on the illustration and management of it, in the piece annexed as a specimen. Verses, under different titles, are to be found, in all lan XXIII. In the twenty-third stanza, the last of the four formerly mentioned, is held out a sentiment which criticism is willing to praise, till, collecting her ideas, she remembers having bestowed praise on its contrary. Does the "some fond breast," do the "some pious drops," alluded to, contribute to take from the bitterness of death, and smooth the passage to the world of spirits? So says Gray. But guages, proceeding, in different degrees, and some of them whimsically enough, upon that idea. The subjoined Trifle is formed, in part, upon it; though all the resources alluded to, those particularly of a more technical kind, are not called in to contribute to the intended effect. It is to be found cloathed with an highly elegant and appropriate Melody' by that great master of the school of Simplicity, the late Mr JACKSON, of Exeter; whose truly classical compositions will long be relished by those who seek for a temperate and quiet enjoyment in the mecker and more gentle effusions of Musical Expression, I OPERA XVI, Song, 8. As to the levity itself, I think it may be said with truth, that its composition must have cost more labour than it is ever likely to pay. It holds of the Italian school; has in it more of sound than sense; and the little sense it has is not much helped forward by the sound; notwithstanding the accelerating power of the letter l, which he has here employed upon the principles of his masters, although with too much profusion, and scarcely with any success. Enough of the letter 7; Representative poetry; and Poetical Rondeaus.3 'See particularly the last Close and Return. > Certain other letters are supposed, by the critics alluded to, to be endowed with an opposite power. The letter V is conceived to be of that order, and as such employed by Virgil in that line of singular alliteration, ÆN. vi. 834, "Neu Patriae Validas in Viscera Vertite Vires!" 3 [The Editor agrees in opinion with the Author of the CRITICISM, in his stricture upon the Pretensions to Novelty, of the Idea, held out in the letter from which the above extract is given, and on the illustration and management of it, in the piece annexed as a specimen. Verses, under different titles, are to be found, in all lan XXIII. In the twenty-third stanza, the last of the four formerly mentioned, is held out a sentiment which criticism is willing to praise, till, collecting her ideas, she remembers having bestowed praise on its contrary. Does the "some fond breast," do the "some pious drops," alluded to, contribute to take from the bitterness of death, and smooth the passage to the world of spirits? So says Gray. But guages, proceeding, in different degrees, and some of them whimsically enough, upon that idea. The subjoined Trifle is formed, in part, upon it; though all the resources alluded to, those particularly of a more technical kind, are not called in to contribute to the intended effect. It is to be found cloathed with an highly elegant and appropriate Melody' by that great master of the school of Simplicity, the late Mr JACKSON, of Exeter; whose truly classical compositions will long be relished by those who seek for a temperate and quiet enjoyment in the mecker and more gentle effusions of Musical Expression, I OPERA IVI. Song, 8. what says Parnel,' in a case pretty simi lar? Audi alteram partem : Nor can the parted body know, Nor needs the soul, these forms of woe. dictated by correct discrimination, and regulated by the chastest Taste. His Saltem accumulem Donis....!] SOBER ANACREONTICK. I. If the watchful eye of CARE Could out-watch DEATH, or TROUBLE Scare,.... If Thought could think Mishap away, Then 'TWERE FOLLY TO BE GAY. II. If the briny streams that flow Could exhaust the springs of woe, Then to weep were wisdom sure: Though harsh the physic, sweet the cure! III. If the sigh that rends the heart Could force a way for pain to part, Then I'd sigh, and vent my grief; And bless the pang that brought relief! IV If the anguish-prompted moan Could charm me back the bliss that's flown, The wail of woe should woe destroy, And mourn the sorrow into joy! V. If, when disasters rudely press, Sweet Siren, HOPE, I'd fly thy snare, But, if on Evil fix'd to dwell Serves but the sum of ill to swell.... VII. Unbend we, quick, the brow of Care; Night-Piece. |