55° IMITATION OF HORACE. 



It is to be hoped, that no one will haftily admit the 

 clear and artlefs expreffion, and the well-connected 

 ideas to make againft this writing. We mull, in that 

 cafe, receive it as an axiom, that Pythagoras and his 

 difciples, without exception, were frantic or foolilli 

 from enthuliafm. And thus then this formidable 

 phalanx of objections is happily difperfed. 



Our author feems to build much on the argument, 

 that Diogenes Laertius does not produce Ocellus amongft 

 the Pythagoreans. But, he likewife does not name 

 many other Pythagoreans ; and yet it would be doing 

 very wrong to conclude., that we lhould deny exiftence 

 to all that are not mentioned by him. 



EPISTLE ON THE MODEL OP THE TYRRHENA REGUM 

 PROGENIES, &C. OF HORACE. 



Why, o my friend, now that all nature is 

 decked in her lovelieft charms — why iit we folitary at 

 home, while the three fabulous lifters are yet fpinning 

 our lives in vigorous threads ? — Efcape from toil, 

 ceafe at once to inveftigate of what fprings and wheels 

 our bodies are compofed, or what powerful force re- 

 conducts the deranged machine into its former courfe : 

 for a^vhile leave father Hippocrates and his difcordant 

 fons. 



Benign joy now viftbly walks along the aromatic 

 groves ; every child of nature difcards his little cares, 



and 



