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pale, a ftream of blood gufhed from her 
bofom. While fpeaking, her form wither- 
ed away; the fle/h fell from her bones, her 
eyes burft from their fockets; a fkeleton 
joathfome and meagre clafped me in her 
mouldering arms. Her infected breath was 
mingled with mine; her rotting fimgers 
preffed my hand, and my face was covered 
with her kifles—oh then, how I trembled 
with difguft.”” 
There is, undoubtedly, fingular merit 
in this defcription. I fhall contraft it with 
a fimilar ode, which the French Virgil has 
given. 
and perhaps the author of the Caftle Spec- 
tre lighted his torch at the altar of the 
French Mufe. - 
Athaliah thus narrates the dream fhe 
had, in which the fpettre of Jezabel her 
mother appears. 
C’étoit pendant Phorreur d’une profonde nuit. 
Ma Mere jfezabel devant moi seit montrée, 
Comme au jour de fa mort pompeufement 
pareée. : 
* * * * * 
En achevant ces mots epouvantables, 
Son ombre vers mon lit a paru fe baitler ; 
Et moi, je luitendois les mains pour ’embraflery 
Mais je #’ai plus trouvé qu’un horrible mélange, 
Dos, et de chair méurtris, et. trainée dans la 
fange 5 . 
Des lambeaux pleins de fang, G des membres af- 
; fun 
Racine’s Athalie, A& 2, S. §. 
To the various imitations of Gray which 
T have formerly given; I muft add what I 
think is another. Pope, in. his Dunciad, 
has 

‘6 High-born Howard.” 
Did this line not echo in Gray’s ear, 
when with all the artifice of alliteration he 
writes, 
-€© High-born Hoel’s harp.” 
Thomfon, in his paftoral ftory of Pale- 
mon. and Lavinia, appears to have copied 
a paffage from Otway. Palemon thusad- 
drefies Lavinia, é 
© let me now into a richer foil 
dranfplant thee iate,; where vernal funs and 
fhowers 
Diffufe their warmeft, largeft. influence; 
And of my garden be the pride and joy! 
Chamont employs the fame image when, 
fpeaking to Acafto of Monimia, he lays, 
You took her up a little tender flower, 
and with a careful loving hand | 
Tranjpianted her into your own fiir garden, 
es 
W here the fun always fhines-———- 
—- 

The following paffages feem echoes to 
each ‘other; and it feems a juitice due to 
From the. Port-Folio of a Man of Letters. 
Some circumftances are the fame, 
[May I, 
Oldham the fatirift, to acknowledge iim 
as the original of this antithefis.- 
On Butler who can think without juft rage, 
The glory and the fcandal of the age. 
. OxvpHam’s Satire againft Poetry. 
I think it is evidently borrowed by Pope, 
when he applies the thought to Erafmus,~ 
At length Erafmus, that great injured namie, 
The glory ot the priefthood, and the fhame. , 
Young remembered the antithefis when 
he faid, . : : 
Of fome for glory fuch the boundlefs rage, 
That theyre the blackeft /candal of their age. 
Youne’s Sat. 4, 
And Voltaire, who was a great reader 
of Pope, feems to have borrowed part of 
the expreffion, in Poeme fur la Religion 
Naturelle : | 
Scandale de [ Eglife, et des Rois le modelles 
Gray has, 
For who to dumb forgetfulnefs a prey— 
And Daniel, as quoted in Cooper's 
Mutes’ Library, preface, _ 
And in himfelf with forrow does complain 
The mifery of dark forgetfulne/s. 
——— ee 
ANECDOTE OF THE REBELLION OF 
174.55 
 \HE Reverend Mr. BeENNET, Mi- 
nifter of Polmont, near Falkirk, dif- 
tinguifhed himfelf by his aétivity in the 
caule of the reigning prince, in 1745. His 
knowledge of the country, and the infla- 
ence which he defervedly poffefled among 
all ranks of people, were found extremely 
ufeful in procuring forage and other a¢- 
commodations to the troops, and even in- 
telligence to their leaders, when they lay 
at Falkirk. he rebels were collected én - 
force at the Tor-wood, in the immediate 
neighbourhood, and were known to be 
preparing for battle. Mr. B. having ob- 
ferved, that general Hawley was but toe 
little fenfible of the impending danger, re- 
minded him, by quoting pafiages from the 
claffics, of the imprudence of too much 
defpifmg an enemy. H. replied, that cer- 
tainly fuch a naked rabble would never 
dare to attack his veterans, who had itood 
the brunt of Fontenoy. ‘* You are quite 
mittaken,”’ faid Mr. B. *‘thatrabble, as you 
call them, will dare to attack your vete- 
rans, or any veterans in Europe. They 
are brave even torafhnefs, and are engaged 
in a caufe in which they have no alterna-" 
tive but to conguer or die; and no pre- 
cdution againft them ought to be neglee- 
ted.” But the general could only be 
convinced by the gleaming broad {words 
of the Highlanders, who, in a day or two 
not only attacked but utterly routed his 
veterans. 
