1809.) 
with an army in his stead ; destruction of the 
altar of the Lord ; battle; meeting of Noah 
and Joktan; death of Joktan; defeat of the 
holy tribes; the angel Raphael forbids Noah 
to renew the battle, as the Lord had forsaken 
them ; takes him up above theearth to meet 
“Uriel, who shows him ail the nations of the 
world, and their wickedness; tel!s him of 
the Almighty’s intention to destroy mankind 
by a flood of waters; orders him to preach 
repentance; instructs how to build the ark; 
(conclusion of the Episode.) 
Boox 10th, and last. 
Satan prepares his legions to renew their 
attacks upon men ; his rejoicing at the num- 
ber of his victims, and success of his arts; 
his instructions to the demons, (taking a 
view of the modes of infernal influence) ; 
nature in her new robes 5 the second dove 
sent out; preparations for leaving the ark; 
the angel Uriel descends with ten thousand 
angelic spirits in his train ; removes the Al- 
mighty seal from the door of the ark 3 leads 
out Noah, &c. and delivers to him the cove- 
nant of God. 
“¢ Angels and cherubim, companions bright, 
Sons of Omnipotence, whose high commands 
To saints are ever joyous embassies, 
Tis past the lips supreme, it is gone forth, 
That earth 
Ye that delight in fire, air, earth, or sea, 
Hie to your separate powers; loose all the 
winds ; 
From chains set free th’ outrageous fires ; 
unbar 
The portals of the liquid firmament ; 
Speak to the bellowing, indignant deep, 
To burst his ancient adamantine shell, 
And strength with strength o’erwhelm, &c.* 
ES ; 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OT observing in your Jast any reply 
to your correspondent, page 178, 
respecting a method of setting pencil 
drawings, I can inform him, that a mix- 
ture of milk and water, in about equal 
parts, poured gently (not washed on with 
_ a brush, as it would smear) will answer 
the purpose extremely well. 
[ know some artists, who throw in 
many of the principal shades with chalk, 
or pencil, and colour over it, which has a 
good effect fer. some subjects, as the 
masses of trees, fore-grounds, &c, and is 
a considerable saving of labour; a solu- 
tion of any of the gums is then used 3 
those which are the least affected by 
changes of the atmosphere are best, as 
isinglass.. Care must be taken that it be 
not teo strong, or it will crack, and be 
hable to retain the dust. Some use the 
solution of gum for pencil-drawings, 
instead of the above wash; but unless it 
be made very weak, it is subject to the 
latter inconvenience ; indeed, milk and 
water may be used for drawings which 
3 
Remarks on a Poem of Lord Hailes. 
At 
are intended to be tinted, but the first 
wash is apt to work rather greasy. 
Chelmsford, Your’s, &c. 
October 6, 1809. Aw AMATEUR, 
—Ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N the Memoirs of Lord Kames, lately 
published, among the characters of 
the celebrated Scotch writers of the last 
age, a short account is given of the late 
Lord Hailes (Sir D. Dalrymple), in which 
the particulars of his literary character, 
and the merits of his various writings, 
historical, critical, and theological, are 
touched with much propriety and discern- 
ment, by the very learned author, Lord 
Wodehouselee. Amidst other particu- 
lars, his lordship observes, that * the 
erudition of Lord Hailes was not of a 
‘dry, scholastic nature: he felt the beau- 
ties of the composition of the ancients: 
he entered with taste and discernment 
into the merits of the Latin poets; and 
that particular vein of delicate and. inge- 
nious thought, which characterizes the 
Greek epigrammatists; and a few speci- 
mens, which he left of his own composi- 
tion in that style, evince the hand of a 
master. It would not be easy to produce 
from the works of any modern Latin poet, 
a more delicate, tender, and pathetic ef- 
fusion, or an idyllion of g-eater classical 
purity, than the following iambicks, on a 
domestic calamity of the severest nature : 
On the death of his first wife, in childbed 
. Of twins. 
Vidi gemellos, et superbivi parens, 
Fausti decus puerperi; 
At mox sub uno flebilis vidi parens 
Condi gemellos cespite ! 
Te, dulcis uxor! ut mihi sol occidit 
Radiante dejectus polo! 
Obscura vite nunc ego peravia,” * 
Heu, solus, ac cubius feror !* 
Now, Sir, although I agree with the very 
learned biographer of Lord Kames,,from 
whose work £ have derived both instrue- 
tion and pleasure, that these verses are 
delicate, tender, and pathetic, in a high 
degree, I have some little doubt of the 
classical purity of one particular exprese 
sion. What I meanis, the phrase, fiebi. 
lis vidi parens. The epithet, Aebilis, ap- 
pears to me to be here used in a sense, 
not warranted by any classical authority. 
The writer evidently meant the word to 
signify, disconsolate, or deeply affected 
with grief, on account of his losses. But 
fiebilts is never, as 1 believe, used in that 
sense. Itis the quality of exciting grief; 
which is expressed by this verbal adjec- 
tive, or the quality which renders the 
thing, or person, the subject of rif 
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