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a nec arundiferum mihi cura revifere Ca- 
muni. Milton. 
Stat quoq: juncofas Cami remeare paluces. 
Milton, 
And while to Cowley Cambridge prefents 
nothing but bona gaudia, dociam quietem— 
all that Milton hears is the duri verdama- 
gifirt, the murmur reuce fchole. in fhort, 
waile one]:ments and complains like a lo- 
ver, almo't to whimpering; the cther 
fpeaks like a rebellious {cn, almo& to 
contempt and .contumacy. And thus do 
poets difagree as well as doctors ! 
Different opinons have been formed 
concerning the nature of thofe feverities, 
and the extent of that -academical difci- 
pline, which laid the foundation of this 
irreconcileable hatred... That Milton was 
rulticated from coilege, his own words 
amply declare ; and what Johnfon relates 
as a conjefture, Dr. Warton has proved 
from authorities, that he underwent the 
Gifcipline {hil infliéted on fcho: lhoys—he 
was whippe a difgrace, this, however, 
to the cuffioms of the Univerfity in thofe 
times, more than to the charaétcr of John 
Milton. 
Concerning this ignominious bufinefs, 
even Johnfon avows, ‘ It may be conjec- 
jurec, from the wiliingoefs with which 
Milton has perpetuated the memery of his 
exile, that its caule was fuch as gave him 
no fhame.” 
The Matter of Trinity at this time was 
Dr. Bainbricge, of whom it is recorded 
that he was a rigid dilciplinarian—rigid, 
probabiy, on points for which Milton ve- 
ry foon felt great diflike, Certain it is, that 
he declined going into orders from feru- 
ples of conf{cience ; and it is not impro- 
bable, independently of the warmth of 
youth, and independently of his coi poral 
punifhment, that he had imbibed {cme 
principles which might incline him to te- 
volt at college difcipline, as being too 
much conneéted with the Church, and 
that, thercfore, with him alma mate 
ftood for mala mater. Nothiog can 
exceed the hatred which he exprefles, 
in his esmovorecns, of Forms of Prayer— 
**thofe good manuals and handmaids of 
devotion, (as he calls them,) the lip-work 
_ of every prelatical liturgift, clapt toge- 
ther, and quilted cut of Scripture-phrafe. 
with as much eafe, and as little reed of 
Chriftian diligence or judgment, as be- 
longs to the compiling of any ordinary and 
faleable piece of Englith Divinity that the 
fhops value :” and much te the fame pur- 
pole, thovgh po.nted with more fatire, 
may be feen in his Remarks on Prelacy. 
Cantabrigiana. - 
[Sept. 1, 
From his Treatife alfo on Education, 
and other of his writings, it. appears, that 
his. fentiments concerning . Univerfities 
a refembled thofe of Dr. William 
Dell, already mentioned. A difciplina-- 
baal then, fo tenacious as Drv Bainbridge, 
anda high-fpiriced young poet like Mil- 
ton, might eafily come in oppofition, ‘and 
the ccllinon turn out to the difadvantage 
of the poet. 
But without precifely fettling this point, 
it may be aflerted, that the tenor of Mil- 
ton’s poetical as well as of profe writings 
demonftrate,that from his early years he had 
imbibed thofe fentiments which abforbed 
his future contemplations ; that his poli- 
tical opinions bear the ftamp of ftreneth- 
ened principle, and all the folidity of fyf- 
tem, adorned with the fweeteft flowers of 
poetry and the boldeft figures of elo- 
quence, unfavourable to the prefent confti- 
tution of our Univerfities, and at variance 
with Prefbytery, as well as Epifcopacy : 
For Prefbyter was but old Prieft wrote large. 
Milton. 
But notwithftanding this hoflility of 
John Milton’s, members of both univer- 
fities, and prelates and prief’s of all pars 
ties, have vicd with eachother in extolling 
the author of Paradife Loft; and {mitten, 
it may be fuppofed, with the facrednefs 
of the fubje&, have even criticifed it 
with a fuperttitious timidity. The re- 
marks of Dr. Johnfon on Milton’s poeti- 
cal works poffefs much ftrong and fterling 
criticifm,with a confiderable portion of mi- 
ferablealloy. Milton’s political fentiments, 
whether right or wrong, as unfolded in 
his prefe works, difplay a fteronefs of 
principle which defies the farcafm of John-_ 
fon, hia exceeded his Bes LE go 
There are in Trinity College Libra- 
ry, two copies of a letter -addrefled to a 
friend, who wifhed Milton to take orders— 
and fome of his juvenile poems—in his 
own hand-writing. But on thefe, remarks 
have been fo often made, that nothing 
remains to be added. Bifhops Newton 
and Pearce have jufily remarked, from the 
rough draughts of the dramatis perfone in 
thofe MSS, that Milton originally intend - 
ed the Sie Lof as a play. 
Milton’s fimaler poems, including Hig 
Latin, have found an ingenious critic in 
Dr. Warton; his two or three Greek po- 
ems, a judicious cenfor in Dr. Charles 
Burney. But we have -wandered from. 
Cambridge.— 
LXXXV.-DRYDEN. 
It is worthy of remark, that few of 
thofe who afterwards have become emi- 
nent 
