366 Port Fol... Gray's Tnitations..... Account of Sir Edmund Saunders. 
minutelt of critics, the following paffage 
sn Milton: 
- 
: ‘<< When the scoursz 
Inexorably, and the ToRT’RING HOYR 
€all us to, penance.” 

Gray, in ie “ Ode io Adverfity,” 
writes, 
§¢ Light THEY DIsPERSE, and with them go 
‘The suMMER FRIEND: — 
fond of the image, . he has i¢ in is 
aC Bard... + 
§< Ehe SHAR M,. Bas in thy NOON-~TIDE 
BEAM are born, 
Gone!” 
Perhaps the germ of this beautiful 
‘bmage may be f sand in Shakelpeare « 
6¢ for MEN, like BUTTERFLIES, 
Shew not their mealy wings but tothe sum-~ 
MER.” Troilgs and i Creffida, Agu, 1..7. 
Gray, in his progrefs of poetry, has, 
<¢ Inclimes beyond THE soLAR ROAD” — 
Mr. WAKEFIELD has traced the imi- 
#3tion to Dryde Nl, without referring to 
the poem itfelf; he has it thus: 
«€ Beyond the year, and out of heay’n’s 
highway.” Dryden. 
¥ cannot now recur'to the paflage, but 
‘-Bave marked it in my copy differently, 
‘and which makes the imiracion {till more 
ctofe, although leis havraonious: 

é¢ Beyond the year, cut of 
the soLar 
WALK 3” : 
However, Pope has it in a well-known. 
werfe, and probably berrowed trem Dry- 
een: 
«¢ Far asthe soLAR WALK, or milky way.” 
Effay on Man, C. 1. 
Gray has, inhis ‘* Bard,” % 
#£ Dear as the light that vifits thefe fad eyes ; 
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my hears.” 
Giay points out the imitation, himfelf, 
in Shakipeare, of tne latter thought—and 
it is curicus to obferve, that Otway, in 
his *¢ Venice Pr “eferved,” makes Priuli 
xclaim to his daughter, that fhe is 
¢s Dear as the vital warmth that feeds 
a 
life, 
Dear as ihefe eyes, that weep in fondnefs ee 
thee.” 
Gray tells us, that the image of his 
£¢ Bard,” 
«© Loofe his beard and hoary hair, 
Stream’d like a METEOR tothe troubled air,” 
avas taken from a picture of the Supreme 
Being, by Raphael. It 1s, however, te= 
ma Ar eable. and fomewhat ludicrous, that 
“¢ The Beard” of Fudibras is allo com- 
paced to a meteor ; and the accompanying 
Paz. Loft. B. li. 90 
. OF charles J he 
obfervation almoft induces one to think 
Gray derived from it the whole plan of 
that fublime ode—fince his “* Bard’’ pre- 
cifely performs what the ‘“ Beard” of 
Hudibras denounced.  Thefe are the 
verfes, 
‘¢ This HATRY METEOR did denounce 
The fall of {ceptres and ef crowns.” 
_ Hudibras, C. i, 
Sir EDMUND SAUNDERS. 
(Communicated, ) 
HIS judge, who made a confiderable 
foure in his own time, arofe from 
the lowelt crigin. He was chief juftice 
of the court-of King? s Bench in the reign 
Roger North, fon of the 
Lord-keeper North, who perfonally knew 
him, fays, “ His charaéter, and his be- 
ginning, were equally frange. He was’ 
at frit no better than a beggar boy, if 
not a parifh foundling, without known 
parents or relations, He had found a 
way to live by obfequioufnels (in Cle- 
ment’s Trin, as I remember) and courting 
the attornies cher ks torieraps. The ex- 
traordinary obf{ervance and diligence of 
the boy made the Lociety willing to de 
him good. He appeared very ambitious 
to learn to'write; and ove. of the attor- 
nies got a board knocked up at the win- 
oa on the top Or a ftair- cafe ; and that 
was. his defk, where he fat and wrote 
“after copies of court and other hands the 
clerks gave him. He made himfelf fo 
‘expert a writer, that he tookim buineis, 
and earned fome pale by hackney writ- 
ing. And thie, I y degrees, he pufthed 
his facult! es, -and fell to forms, and, by 
books that were lent him, became an ex~ 
quifite entering clerk; and, by the fame 
courfe of improvement off himfelf, -an 
abie countel, frit j in fpecial pleading, then 
at large. And; after he was called to 
the bar, had practice in the King’sBench 
court, equal to any there.**” He was cor- 
pulent i in his perfon, and fomewhat licen- 
tious in his manners; but North fays, 
‘“¢ as to his ordinary dealing, he was 
honeft as the driven fnow was white; and 
why not, having noregard for money, or 
defire to be rich? And, for good nature 
and condefeention, there was not his fel- 
low.”—‘* As for his parts, nome had 
them more lively than he. Wit and re- 
partee, in an affected ruficity, were 
iatural to him. He was ever ready, and 
never at a lois; and none came fo near as 
he to be a match for Serjeant Maynard.”* 
—‘* While he fat in the court ef King’s 
Bench, he gave the rule to the general 
fatisfation of the lawyexs.”” 
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