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under its ruins: henever dares fleep, but 
is perpetually under alarm, from the 
beating of the billows againit his habi-- 
tation. 
There dwells he ever, miferablefwain ! 
Hateful bothto himfelf and every wight, 
Where he thro” privy grief and horror vain 
Is waxen fo deform’d, that he has quite, 
Forgot he wasa man, and jealou/y is hight. 
F. Q, iii. ro. 
There is much fancy inthis picture ; 
and the unquiet ftate of a jealous mind 
is ftrongly expreffed by the emblem of 
this wretch’s conftant dread of his over- 
hanging rock. The manner of the me- 
tamorphofis feems imitated from that of 
‘the nymph Echo in Ovid, Metazn, |. iui. 
SPLEEN, a compound affection of the 
mind, better known formerly (by name 
at leaft) than at preient, is immortalized 
in poetry. She makes a confpicuous part 
of the machinery of the Rape of the Lock, 
but her figure is but flightly fketched in 
that poem. 
Here, in a grotto, fhelter’d clofe from air, 
And fereen’d in fhades from days detetted 
glare, 
She fighs for ever on her penfive bed, 
Pain at her fide, and Megrim at her head. 
Two others of her attendants have heen 
already exhibited ; I//-matureand Ajfecta- 
tion. This is entirely a natural repre- 
fentation; but, Mr. Hayley, .wao has 
boldly and fuccefsfully ventured to take 
up a fubjeét touched by the hand of fo 
great'a mafter, befides furnifhing his 
Cave of Spleen with a variety of new 
ficures, has given a portrait of the Genius 
of the place, formed on a different model: 
High on anebon throne, fuperbly wrought 
With each fierce figure of fantaftic thought, 
In a deep cove, where no bright beam in- 
trudes, 
Over her black fchemes the fulien Emprefs 
broods. 
The fhriek-owl’s, mingled with the raven’s 
‘plume 
Shed o’er her furrow’d brows an awful gloom : 
_ A garb, that glows with fripes of lurid 
flame, 
Wraps in terrific pomp her haggard frame 5 
Round hera ferpent, as azone, is roll’d, 
Whith writhing, itings itielf in every‘fold. 
Lrinmphs of Lemp. C. iii, 
This reprefentation is almoft entirély 
emlematical ; and the fymbols are at 
the fame time novel and appropriate. 
That moft original and ‘lively p 
on the Spleen, by Mr. Green, thoug 
abounds in figure and imacery, has few 
ideas proper for a portraiture cf the phan- 
tom againft whofe intrufion he guards us. 
oem 
i 
Perfonifications in Poetry. 
ous 
The magic-lanthorn, however, which he 
gives lier, is a very ingenious and expref- 
five emblem. 
When by her magic lanthorn, Spleen 
With frightful figures {pread life’s fcene. 
Among the inhabitants of the cave of 
Spleen, Mr. Hayley fitly places PeevisH- 
NESS, whom he thus paints. 
Here, like a dame of quality array’d 
Sits Peewifhne/s, prefiding o’er the fhade, 
And frowning at her own uncomely mein, 
Whofe coarfe refle€tion on the wall is feen. 
A f{narling lap-dog her right hand fuftains, 
Her lap an infant porcupine contains, 
Which, while her fondnefs tries its wrath to 
te TEMS 
Wounds her each moment with a pointed 
guill. 
The circumftance of her frowning at 
her fhadow on the wall, is original and 
characteriftic. "The emblematic animals 
are well chofen, particularly, the <* fret~ 
ful porcupine.” ales 
But the reader will probably think, 
that the exhibition of horrid and difeuft- 
ing figures has been long enough conti- 
nued: the remaining ones of this clafg 
fhall therefore be of a different charac’ 
te. 
PEACE, as reprefented by Tibullus, 
may be reckoned, with almoft equal pro- 
priety, a natural or a fymbolical perfon- 
age. She is either a rural maid, actually. 
engaged in the pacific employments of a 
country life, or fhe is the Goddefs of 
Peace, diftinguithed by the emblems of 
that defireable itate. 

nobis Pax alma yeni, fpicamque teneto 3 
Pertiuat et pomis candidus ante finnus 
—-— Pax aryacolat: Pax candida primum 
_ Duxit araturos fub juga curva boves, 
Pax aluit vites, et fuccos ¢condidit uve, 
Funderet ut nato tefta paterna merum. 
TW ELOIO. 
Come, bounteous Peace! and hold the 
a ipiky ear, 
While thy white lap with fragrant fruit o’er- 
4 
fl ws 
Let Peace proteét the plains: fair Peace, *twas 
thine 
To bow the oxen to their rural tafk; 
To nurfe the grape, and ftore the new-preff’d 
wine 
For fens to ripen in their father’s cafk. 
There is more of portrait in a ver 
elegant reprefentation of Peace by Milton, 
in that juvenile, but highly claffical, per- 
formance, his Chriffmas Hymn. 
But he, her fears to ceafe, ‘ 
Seat down the meek-eyed Peace: 
© 
She, 
