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Grattan where he found him. This is 
very fevere indeed. 
This fatirical poem has called forth a 
very excellent one, entitled, dx Interview 
between the Shade of Pope and the Shade 
that affuned bis Name. ‘The author has 
here reprefented the “ Purfuer’s’’ Shade 
of Pofe as a fiend in difguife, and has 
made the real one arife to rebuke him for 
his pref smption. 
Mr. Dutron, thetranflator of Sebaldus 
Nothanker, has pubiithed a fatirical poem, 
called The Literary Cenfizz, wherein he 
has commenced a war of aggretlion againft 
a variety of public characters, and parti- 
cularly againft the unknown author of the 
Pur fuits of Literature, whofe name, it feems, 
there is a train in preparation for difco- 
vering. It really is extraordinary that a 
man, of whom almoft every one {peaks 
with indignation and contempt, fhould 
excite the flighteft curiofity. 
A new edition 1s publifhed cf Gloyer’s 
Leonidas, adorned with plates: the typo- 
graphy is elegantly executed by BENs- 
LEY. 
Mr. Lewrs’s Love of Gaia is a peem 
imitated from the thirteenth fatire of Ju- 
venal: Mr. L. is writing himfelf down in 
the eftimation of the public very faft. 
Many of the lines in the prefent poem are 
very duil and inharmonious, and feveral 
pages appear together without one parallel 
verfe from his origimal. 
The Ep:pbany is a Seatonian prize poem, 
by Mr. Bottanpb, who had obtained it 
oh a former cccafion ; aithough there is not 
much novelty of thought and imagination 
in this compofition, yet it is rendered ex- 
tremely pleafing by the folemnity of the 
fentiment, and the harmony of the verfi- 
fication. 
We are happy to fee publifhed the firft 
part of The Sacred Oratorios, as fet to Mu- 
Jic by George F. Handell, with a promife of 
the editor, that a fecond part fhall foon 
make its appearance, with the life of Han- 
ceil, and a general index. ‘The part at 
prefent publifhed contains the Meffiah, A- 
thalia, Be!fhazzar, Deborah, Efther, Jeph- 
tha, Jofeph, Ifrael in Egypt, Jofhua, Occa- 
fional Oratorio, Samfon, Saul, Solomon, 
Judas Maccabeus, and Sufannah. Sucha 
colleétion as the prefent will be extreme- 
ly acceptable to thofe who frequent the 
eratorios of Handell: it is publifhed 
cheaply, elegantly, and in a very commo- 
dious form. 
Mr. Murpuy has publifhcd The 
Bees, a poem, trom the fourteenth book 
ef Vuneres Predium Ruflicum. My. 
Retrofpect of Domeftic Literaturé...Poetry. 
. 
M. has fet about {weeping his fiudy, and 
feems determined that nothing fhall be 
loft, or he would never have publifhed 
fuch a dull profaic le€ture as this is. 
Mr. MorcGan’s Kuyghte of the Golden 
Locks is intended to be pailed upon us for 
“an ancyent poem :” but fomething more 
is requifite for fuch a deception, than 
fhreds and {craps from Percy’s collec- 
tion. : 
Mifs Sewarp, whofe poetic genius is 
admired wherever it is known, has pub- 
lifhed a volume of Original Sonnets, and 
odes pataphrafed from Horace : it is im- 
poffible to fpeak of thefe fonnets but in 
terms almoft of enthufiafm ; the imagery 
is at once fo vivid, glowing, and correct ; 
the fentiments, according with the fub- 
jet, are fo fweet, fo melancholy, or fub- 
lime ; the paufes fo admirably varied, 
and the verfe fo harmonious and impref- 
five, that we may truly fay, Mifs Seward 
has excelled herfelf, and has given to this 
{pecies of compofition a dignity of which 
it was fcarcely believed fufceptible by 
thofe who have accuftomed themfelves to 
read. the fniveling forrows, the ftupid mo- 
notonous melancholy, of our love-fick Par- 
naffians, who look upon fourteen lines as 
the only effential of a fonnet. 
Mr. CHARLES Lioys, whofe Blank 
Verfe we noticed on a former occafion, has 
written afew Lines fuggefted by the Faft, 
on Feb. 27, 1799. Weobferve the fame 
whining, metaphyfical rant in thefe lines, 
which has difgufted us before. Mr. L. 
feems to be one of the many /extimen- 
talifis, who, feeling themfelves animated 
by the rich poetry of Mr. SourHEy, 
fancy themfelves endued with his ge- 
nius, his tafle, and his talents: this is a 
miferable delufion, and ought to be done 
away. 
We are forry that any one fhould un- 
dertake to celebrate The Patriot, to fketch 
his character and his virtues, without 
competent ability ; fuch, however, is the 
cafe with “* A Citizen of the World,” 
who has very unfortunately chofen this 
theme for the fubjeét of his unequal 
fong. 
‘A great number of verfifiers have at- 
tempted to‘do honour to Lord NELSON 3 
among them are two poets: Mr. SoTHE- 
BY, whofe polifhed and fpirited tranfla- 
tion of Oberon we have read again and 
again with increafed delight, and the Rev. 
Mr, BowLEs, with whofe various effufions 
we have charmed many a vacant hour. 
The latter of thefe gentlemen has pub- 
lithed, for the benefit of the widows and 
children 
