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** Doom'd o’er that dreary realm, alone, 
Shunn’d by the gentler fhades, to yo 5 
Nor friend fhall foothe, nor parent own 
The child of floth, the Mufe’s foe. 
6 From Atjop. 
€¢ Who, but for death, could find repofe 
From life, and life’s unnumber’d woes, : 
From ills that mock our art to cure, 
As hard to fiy as to endure ? 
Whate’eris {weet without alloy 
And fheds a more exalted joy, 
Yon glorious orb that gilds the day, 
Or, placid moon, thy filver ray, 
Earth, fea, whate’er we gaze upon, 
Ts thine, oh Nature! thine alone: 
The gifts that to ourfelves we owe 
(Infidious race), are fear and woe, 
Chance-pleafure, hardly worth poffeffing, 
Ten curfes fora fingle bleffing.” 
The notes which foilow thefe bear {till 
farther teftimony to the tafte and judg- 
ment of the author. To occafional eri- 
ticifms, biographical notices are fubjoin- 
ed, and very frequently additional tranfla- 
tions. Note A (to the Preface) may be 
quoted as a fair fpecimen. 
«< Dogtor Johnfon threw together the 
fubftance of his Latin epitaph on Gold 
fmith into the more compreffed form of a 
Greek epigram. Thefe lines, and his 
tranflation of a noble paffage in the Medea 
of Euripides, which has been frequently 
and in vain attempted, are not fufficientiy 
known. They are not printed with his 
works, although the latter is as fuccefsful 
as any thing that he has left us. They 
are inferted from a perfuafion that they 
will be new to many perfors, and agree- 
able to all. 
Tov raQoy ticopaas Tov “Ors Becpsoro* Kovsqy 
AQpocs pun cemvay Besve Wootocs Wales. 
"Orcs prendre Quois, peTewy weepic, eerya 
TAALIOYy 
KAaiere romrny, troginov, Quoszov. 
<¢ Thou fee’ft the tomb of Oliver: retire, 
Unholy feet, nor o’er his afhes tread. 
Ye whom the deeds of old, verfe, nature, 
fire, 
Mourn Nature’s prieft, the bard, hiftorjan, 
dead.” 
“¢ Med. Eurip. v. 190. 
¢¢ The rites derived from antient days 
With thoughtlefs reverence we praife 5 
The rites that taught usto combine 
The joys of mufic and of wine 5 
That bad the feaft, the fong, the bowl, 
O’erfill the faturated foul 5 . 
But ne’er the lute nor lyze applied 
To foothe defpair or foften pride, 
Ner calPd them to the gloomy cells 
Where madnefs raves and vengeance fwells, 
- Retrofpeé? of Domeftic Literature.—Medicine, Se. 
Where hate fits mufing to betray, 
And murcer meditates his prey.. 
To dens of guilt and fhades of care 
Ye fons of melody repair, 
Nor deign the feflive hour 
With fuperfluity of joy ; j 
The board with varied plenty crown’d 
May fpare the luxury of found,” 
Of the Tales and Mifcellaneous Poem 
it may be enough to fay, that they have 
proportionate merit with the epigrams. 
One of the belt, perhaps, is that which | 
has the title of «¢ The Wraith.” 
Among the works in this branch, too, 
we have had the ‘* Delecfus Sententiarum 
et Hifteriarum in ufum Tironum accomo- 
datus,” ttrongly recommended to us. It 
was compiled by Dr. Va.py, and will 
be found a very ferviceable publication to 
beginners. 
The new edition of Mr. Beioe’s 
“ Tranflation of Herodotus,” in point of 
cloy 
, Motes, .1s very much improved, though © 
we perceive no material alterations in the 
text. It is dedicated to the Bifhcp of © 
London. The recent difcoveries, both in 
Africa and Egypt, have fupplied occa- 
fional information which will be found 
very ufeful to Englifh readers. 
MEDICINE, &c. . 
Dr, Haycartu’s * Clinical Hiflory of 
Difeafes: Part Firft,” is one of the mott 
valuable works in this {clafs which have 
lately appeared. The author has been 
accuftomed, he fays, to take minutes of 
the cafes he attended in the chambers of 
the fick, for nearly forty years, and to 
mark the’ effects of the medicines admi- 
niftered: and from this regifter he has 
extracted fuch obfervations as he finds re- 
corded on acute rheumatifms, and on no- 
dofity of the joints. Incafes of the firk 
defcription, his ufual method of treat- 
ment was to give either antimonia! pow- 
der or tartarifed antimony till the fto- 
mach and bowels were cleanfed, and-then 
bark in gradual dofes. In thofe of the 
fecond, no remedy was found adequate to 
the removal of the complaint ; but relief 
was given by the repeated application of 
leaches, and the affufion of warm water. 
Dr. KiIncLAKe’s pamphlet, in anfwer 
to Mr. Edlin, and in fupport of the ufe 
of cold water in cafes of gout, deals too 
profufely in perfonalities. One of the cafes 
mentioned by Mr. Edlin, where the pati- 
ent died within a few hours of the appli- 
cation, is ftreng; and though, in fome 
meafure, we approve of Dr. Kinglake’s 
practice, we cannot in this inflance re- 
commend the produce of his pen. He 
has not adduced a fingle novel faét relat- 
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