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That breaft, the feat of fentiment refin’d, 
Thofe powers, that ev'ry fcience could ex- 
plore, 
Are now to Death’s unfathom’d gulf con- 
fign’d, 
To charm, alas! th’ admiring world no 
more! 
What now avails that eloquence divine, 
That ftamp’d conviction on the dubious 
mind ? 
The fage and favage mutt their life refign ; 
Time leaves no wreck of human pow’r be- 
hind. 
Yet, yet one gleam of foothing hope remains 
To balm the wound Death’s ruthlefs ihaft 
has giv’n ; 
‘That bleit abode, where fpotlefs virtue reigns, 
Referv’d for confcious worth—-an endlefs - 
heav’n. 
Ee See 
INVOCATION TO HOPE. 
(COME, fweet forrow-foothing Hope ! 
Come, and bid my forrows ceafe 5 
Hafte! with dread Difquiet cope, 
And give my foul its wonted peace. 
Thy fmile can fmooth the brow of Care, 
And give the troubled fpirit reft 5 
Can light the gloom of black Defpair, 
And make e’en Love’s pale viétim blett! 
Jafpit’d by thy reviving light, 
i fee Tryth’s banners wave unfurl’d ; 
Philanthropy with Love unite 
To harmonife a warring world. 
From the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
S25 
Then come, fweet Hope! 
fight! 
Come, and bid my forrows ceafe ; 
Illume my foul’s dark dreary night, 
And give my burning bofom peace; 
A.R, 
and blefs my 
ee eee 
IMPROMPTU, 
On reading, in a Morning Paper, that a Sub- 
Jeription was opened, under the Direfien of 
MR. ORME, bis Majefty’s Printfeller, in Bond- 
fireet, for engraving a Print of the late Lorp 
PETRE, to perpetuate bis Menzry. 
Not by the aid that brafs or marble gives, 
The memory of the noble Patriot lives ; 
Whilft nature forms and moves the humar 
heart, 
Vain the proud fuccour man derives frem. 
art: 
What tho’ nought iffues from heft famous 
{chool, 
The fculptor’s chiffel, or the engravers | 
tool, 
Yet every age thall call to life the duft, 
And wake remembrance of the good and: 
jut: . 
Long as the love of country is rever’d, 
Petre to diftant time fhall be endear’d ; 
Long as with public private worth com 
bin’d, 
Continues ftill to harmonife mankind, 
Whilft hiftory lives, let kindred fouls rely. 
Petre’s illuftrious name will never die, | 
ExtraGs from the Port-folioof a Man of Letters. 
POETS DEPRECIATED. 
Bi a law of the emperor Philip,(lib. x. 
lit. 151.) poets were not admitted to 
thofe immunities conferred on other profef- 
iors of liberal arts. A fimilar fneer at their 
teafing infignifcance, has efcapeda petty 
fovereign of Germany. In the ediét, pub- 
lifhed at Erfurt, 22d March 1796, for the 
inftruction of the cenfors or licenfers of the 
prefs, provifion is made,that thofe who pub- 
lith poems, fhall pay double price per theet 
for the writings they fubmit to official ex- 
amination. Manes of Archilochus, infpire 
fome vindictive iambics ! 
WATER-PROOF CLOTHS. 
Tt is now become very fafhionable to ren- 
der one’s great-coat water-proof. An 
early notice of this admirable invention oc- 
curs in Lalande’s Travels through Italy, 
in 3766. Prince San Severo, of Naples, 
(fays he, VI. 249.) prefented to the king 
ef Spain a very light and thin over-coat, 
which the rain could not penetrate, and 
which was of his own invention. 
San Severo is known among men of Jet- 
ters by his interefting correfpondence with 
the Abbé Nollet, and by feveral printed. 
differtations. His fpirit of refearch, like 
that of Count Rumford, had the merit of 
aiming at practical utility. To improve 
the art of tinning a faucepan, or of platter- 
ing afloor, or of manufacturing the down of 
the Syrian Afclepias, was to him more than 
to afcertain whether Franklin is right im 
referring the eleétric phzenomena to a fin- 
gle fluid, or whether Nollet is right m af- 
cribing them to a vitreous, or oxygenous, 
and to a refinous, or phlogiltic, emanation. 
ALEXANDER GEDDES. 
The Jews of Alexandria (fays Philo, 
in his Life of Mofes) had inftituted a yearly 
feftival, a marine proceffion, in honour of 
the tranflators of their Bible. In a fleet 
of boats, gay with flags, whofe oars beat 
time 
