Retrofpect of Domeftic Literaturt.— Poetry. 
to the letter of his original, and imbibed 
the fpirit of it. 
Mr. Maut’s * Verfes to the Memory 
of Jofeph Warton, D. D. &c.” are highly 
polifhed and poetic: not fo the “ Sufpiria 
Oceani,”” a doleful ditty on the death of 
Lord Howe. 
Mr. Boscawen, the elegant and fpi- 
rited tranflator of Horace, has publifhed 
a fmali volume of £¢ Original Poems,”? 
which fhew that the leffons he teok from 
his great Roman mafter, have not been 
. Ml beflowed: the general chara&er of 
the Poems is an eafy playfulnefs and fim- 
plicity: the lofty and fublime are not: 
often attempted. If this volume required 
any extrinfic recommendation to the pub- 
lic patronage, we might ftate that many 
‘of the poems were originally written for 
the purpofe of bringing into celebrity, 
the Lirzerary Fuwnn, a noble infitu- 
tion, which is in no fmall degree indebted 
to Mr. Bofcawen for its prefent flourifhinge 
fituation. ) 
Mr. CHaNDLER’S ‘¢ Sir Hubert,’’ is 
an heroic ballad of an unmerciful length, 
which however, evinces that the author 
has a poetical imagination, and a capa- 
city for fuperior performances. 
*¢ St. Anne’s Hill,”? is a Poem, dedi- 
cated to Mr. Fox, who is juftly celebrated, 
as well for his cultivated mind and per- 
fonal accomplifhments and good qualities, 
as he is for the magnanimity, wifdom, 
and patriotifin which have diftinguifhed 
his political career : 
Semper honos, nomenque tuum, laudefque 
manebunt '‘ 
is the line from Virgil which is placed 
under the engraving from Mr. Fox’s butt, 
and which is ever brought to our remem- 
brance at the mention of his name. 
Mr. FitzGERa.p has dedicated fome 
s¢ Mifcellaneous Poems”? to the Earl of 
‘Moira: the fpecimen which we have feen 
of them, do more credit to this loyalty 
than his Mute. 
The inexhauftible fatiri#, Perer Pin- 
DAR, has not fuffered his old friend Mr. 
Pitt to retire from office without taking a 
farewell of the Miniter himielf, and of 
his companions: ** Out at laft! or, The 
‘Fallen Minifter,’ and **Odes to Inns 
and Outs”’ are the valetés of this wicked 
Wight, and rank among his beft produc- 
tions. . 
*¢ Unio, five Lamentatio Hibernica, Po- 
ema Macaronico Latinum, and An Ode 
to Peter Pindar :"* The humour of Dr. 
“GEpDpk’s Macaronic Poems will probably 
invite a number of imitators, many of 
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whom may fancy that an heterogeneous 
jumble of Greek, Latin, and Englifh, 
conftitute the effence of this mode of wri- 
ting. Without including the author of 
the prefent work in fo fenfelefs a lift, we 
-muft be allowed to fay that his Poem, 
though not deftitute of humour, has 
fcarcely fufficient of it to animate and 
exhilarate the hexameters, 
‘‘ Lachryme Hibernice, or, The Ge- 
nius of Erin’s Complaint; a Ballad, with 
a Prefatory Addvefs to the Rt. Hon. the 
Earl of Hardwicke, the reported Viceroy - 
elect of Ireland; and a Pair of Epi- 
grams, by Laurence HALLORANs 
D. D.’. This zealous anti-unionift has 
made his publication the vehicle of much 
fevere reprobation againft Lord Hard- 
wicke, with whom he has had fome quar~ 
rel, and who is charged with cruelty, in- 
juftice, oppreffion, and many other good 
qualities. ‘The Reverend Doétor promifes 
a full and fpeedy detail of all thefe alle- 
gations, authenticated with the requifite 
vouchers of letters, papers, &c. &c.. 
‘©The Vernal Walk,’ and, ‘* The 
Vale of Trent,” are two Poems which 
betray juvenility in their refpeGtive au- 
thors, but. afford evidence of a poetic 
tafte, which, if properly cultivated and 
matured, will probably produce fome 
work of no mean excellence on fome fu- 
ture day. 
«An Effay on Sculpture: in a Series 
of Epiftles to John Flaxman, Efq. R. A. 
with Notes, by WiLtiaM HaYLEY, 
Efq.” The public has long fince appre - 
ciated Mr. Hayley’s poweis: his poetry 
flows, we think, in a more languid cur- 
rent than formerly, but prefents the fame 
polithed and unruffled furface which ever 
diftinguifhed it. 
‘“‘The Millenium’? is the interefting 
production of a lively, and what is_ more 
rare, a good-humoured fatirift, who, dif- 
tinguifhing vice from folly, whilft he 
lathes the one with a whip of {corpions, 
contents himfelf with tickling the other’s 
back with a bunch of nettles. We have 
heard it afcribed to feveral perfons, all 
of the higheft rank in the Republic of 
Letters. 
‘“‘ The Pride of Birth,’ is a feeble 
and diffufe imitation of the Eighth Satire 
of Juvenal: According to the fathioa of 
the day it abounds with notes of political 
aliufion. = i 
<s Tales of Wonder, written and col 
lefted by M. G. Lewis, efq. &c.”” Two 
thin oétavo volumes, made up of fhreds 
and feraps from Percy’s Ancient Relics, 
from Parnel,. from Dryden, &¢, &c. to- 
41 gether 
