6 | Mr. Cogan’s Letter—Pedeftrian Zour. 
namely, when the nominative, the infini- 
tive,.and the preceding verb, all refpeé& 
the fame perfon, appears to be the only 
cafe in which the azcient Greck writers 
ufed the nominative before the infinitive. 
Dr. Huntingford, under the following 
rule of his Greek fyntax, ‘ The infinitive 
mood is elegantly ufed with a nominative 
cafe either before or after it, parti- 
cularly by the Attics,” gives fixteen ex- 
amples. The firft is rather an inftance 
of the avaxoreSov. All the ref, fave one 
from Lucian (of whieh, not having the 
conneétion before me, I can fay. nothing) 
come under the predicament of my obfer- 
vation. Iwill not anfwer for the fidelity 
of my memory, but I recollect no indu- 
bitable inftance in the poets which contra- 
di&ts my remark. I hefitate, however, 
when I find fuch critics as Mufgrave and 
Mr. Wakefield defending the nominative 
before the infinitive in the following paf- 
of the Trach. of Sophocles, v. 585. 
Ge nT Bow? 
Ereplat yuvaime xewvos avrs ok WAEOV. 
Mufgrave, indeed, refers to a paffage 
which comes under the above defcription, 
and upon that paflage’ cites an initance 
from Philofiratus.* At any rate, this 
paflage of Sophocies is not decifive, as 
Brunk’s ¢pZe: is fupperted by manufcript 
authority. 
I do not know whether any writer on 
the Englifh language has traced the re- 
femblance between our auxiliary verb Lave 
and the ufe of the Greek exw with the 
aorift participle. 
every Greek {cholar I will be fparing of 
quotations. Vide Eur. Troad. 1150. eves 
prey BY poy Seo amardabas eyw,. and Arif- 
toph. Eccl. 355. Ed. Brunk. Jn Eurip. 
Troad, v. 1121. for Aavao urewoyres exysory 
read xvewavres execw as the fenfe requires 
’ not izterficiunt but interfecerunt. 
Chefbunt, I am, Sir, yours, &c. 
ec. 6, 1800. E. CoGan. 
. — ee 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
A PEDESTRIAN TOUR through PART of 
. DEVON. 
N Monday, June 9, 1800, at half. 
O paft 7 o'clock, A. M. we left Ply-_ 
mouth, four in company, ina coach, and 
reached the rock on Roborough Down 
about nine. Here we forfook-our vehicle 
to purfue our route on foot, as we had 
previoufly planned. We were all ardent 
* He alfo refers to his note in v. 831. of 
the Heraclide of Euripides : but the inftances 
quoted tkere make for my principle rather 
than againft. it, as might eafily.be thewn; 
‘put in thefe communications J fhould atways 
swith to ftudy brevity. . 
In a matter known to. 
[Feb. 3; 
for the undertaking, and formed pictures 
of imagination for future gratification 
agreeably to our different taftes and pur- 
faits... Lhe morning was rather cloudy, 
yet the frequenc breaks.of the fun through 
the clouds produced a pleafing interchange 
of light and fhade; and gave a breadth to 
the latter very characteriltic of the time 
of. the day. Our road was ever adown, 
and continued for fome few miles amid a 
country, where the barennefs of the hedges 
and the mafly ftones of which they were 
formed, fhewed that we were te quit the 
more. cultivated face of feenery, and to 
enter. on the bleak and barren traéts of un- 
adorned nature. Our breafts were elated 
with expectation of the future, and with 
the pleafures of the objects about us. The 
birds faluted us with their various melo- 
dies, and invited us’ to cheerfulnefs and 
gratitude. The: fheep ftained with red 
ochre formed picturefque gxoupes, or 
gamboled -with their innocent progeny. 
Qn either hand lay a ricly and beauriful 
country. But it 1s neceflary for me to, 
premife, that by zich I mean not to ex- 
prefs the value of the foil, but the plea- 
{ure of the {cenery.. My prefent bufinefs is 
with the furface only. Talteis contented 
with the variegated appearance of the bar- 
ren rock, or dreary heath, and can feleét 
her pleafures from {cenes of defolation and 
mere fuperficies. Utility, undoubtedly, 
claims a more important attention in life ; 
but I mult be here allowed to expatiate on 
the enjoyments of a cultivated mind, which 
can draw its pleafures from fources utterly 
unknown to the illiterate and the luxu- 
rious. afte has this fuperiority, that it 
can partake of all the pieafures of the fen- 
fual in common with others, and can ace 
guire delight from fuch as are beyond the 
reach of unexpanded faculties. ‘The vul- 
gar eye ftares, but has no fpeculation; and 
fight, in numerous inflances carries little 
information to the mind. This 1s one 
confiderable advantage refulting from tafte 
and practice in the arts of drawing and 
painting; that the rugged fiump, the 
mantied pool, the lichened rock, which, 
to the common ob(erver aie objeéts ra- 
ther of difguft, form to the other.motives 
of no fmall interett. This obfervation 
may be extended to the acquifition of all 
knowledge, and te every branch of expe- 
rimental philofophy. Natural hiftory is 
in this refpect, independent of its import- 
ance to fociety, pregnant with delight. 
The-rock on Reboroughis one of thofe 
excrefcences of favage nature to be found 
in romantic couniries,, which/appear to be 
the refult iof the deluge, or ef fome gréat 
convulfien. of natures: ‘Loe the right a4 
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