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butcher amid a flock of flieep appears the hero of the Iliad, in 

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

 tieth book. 



His fiery courfers, as the chariot rolls, 

 Tread down whole ranks, and crufh out heroes' fouls ; 

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

 Black bloody drops the fmoking chariot dye ; 

 The fpiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore, 

 And thick the groaning axles dropp'd with gore ; 

 High o'er the fcene of death ACHILLES ftood, 

 All grim with duft, all horrible with blood ; 

 Yet ftill infatiate, ilill with rage on flame, 

 Such is the luft of never dying fame ! 



The cure muft be taken from moral writers. Woolafton 

 fays, Csefar conquered Pompey ; that is, a man whofe name 

 confided of the letters C, se, f, a, r, conquered a long time ago 

 a man, whofe name confided of the letters P, o, m, p, e, y, and 

 that this is all that remains of either of them. Juvenal alfo at- 

 tacks this mode of infariity, Sat. X. 166. 



I, demens, et faevas curre per Alpes, 

 Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias ! 



Which is thus tranflated by Dr. Johnfon, 



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 circumftances of fome great lofs, as of a favourite 

 child. In general the painful ideas gradually decreafe in ener- 

 gy, and at length the recollection becomes more tender and lefs 

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

 daughter is ingenious. The example of David on the lofs of his 

 child is heroic. 



A widow lady was left in narrow circumftances with a boy 

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

 the other feven years of age ; as her circumftances allowed her 

 to keep but one maid-fervant, thefe two children were the fole 

 attention, employment, and confolation of her life ; (lie fed 

 them, drefled them, flept with them, and taught them herfelf ; 

 they were both fnatched from her by the gangrenous fore throat 

 in one week : fo that (he loft at once all that employed her, as 

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

 days after their death, when any friend vifited her, (he fat up- 

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

 fected to fpeak of indifferent things. Afterwards me begnn to 

 weep much, *nd for fome weeks talked to her friends of noth- 

 ing 



