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butcher amidst a flock of sheep appears the hero of the Iliad, in 

 the following fine lines of Mr. Pope, which conclude the twen- 

 tieth book. 



His fiery coursers, as the chariot rolls, 

 Tread down whole ranks and crush out heroes' souls ; 

 Dash'd from their hoofs, as o'er the dead they fly, 

 Black bloody drops the smoking chariot die , 

 The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore, 

 And thick the groaning axles dropp'd with gore ; 

 High o'er the scene of death ACHILLES stood, 

 All grim with dust, all horrible with blood ; 

 Yet still insatiate, still with rage on flame, 

 Such is the lust of never dying fame ! 



The cure must be taken from moral writers. Woolaston says, 

 Caesar conquered Pompey; that is, a man whose name consisted 

 of the letters C, ae, s, a, r, conquered a long time ago a man, 

 whose name consisted of the letters P, o, m, p, e, y, and that this 

 is all that remains of either of them. Juvenal also attacks this 

 mode of insanity, Sat. X. 166. 



I, demens, et saevas curre per Alpes, 

 XJt pueris placeas, et declamatio tias ! 



/Which is thus translated by Dr. Johnson, 



And left a name, at which the world grew pale, 

 To point a moral, or adorn a tale ! 



10. Mceror. Grief. A perpetual voluntary contemplation 

 of all the circumstances of some great ioss, as of a favourite 

 child. In general the painful ideas gradually decrease in energy, 

 and at length the recollection becomes more tender and less 

 painful. The letter of Sulpicius to Cicero on the loss of his 

 daughter, is ingenious. The example of David on the loss of his 

 child is heroic. 



A widow lady was left in narrow circumstances with a boy 

 and a girl, two beautiful and lively children, the one six, and 

 the other seven years of age; as her circumstances allowed her 

 to keep but one maid-servant, these two children were the sole 

 attention, employment, and consolation of her life; she fed 

 them, dressed them, slept with them, and taught them herself; 

 they were both snatched from her by the gangrenous sore throat 

 in one week: so that she lost at once all that employed her, as 

 well as all that was dear to her. For the first three or four 

 days after their death, when any friend visited her, she sat up- 

 right, with her eyes wide open, without shedding tears, and af- 

 fected to speak of indifferent things. Afterwards she began to 

 weep much, and for some weeks talked to her friends of nothing 



