And while the Mufe now ftoops, or now afcends, VARIATION S. Whee heav'n-ward now her mounting wing the feels, NOTES. to his fiend, will furnish a Chatic with Examples of eveI one of those five Species of Faxcution, from which, fiven it Sources, Longinus deduceth the SUBLIME". 1. The first and chief is a Grandeur and Sublimity of Cen ception: Come on, my Friend! my Genius! come along, the Blue more Hoops, and now afcends, Ye he's in, or their gierious ends, A certain elegant Formation and Ordonance of Figures: Grafp the whole worlds of Reason, Life, and Sense, In one close fyftem of Benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of Blifs but height of Charity. 360 God loves from Whole to Parts: But human foul Muft rife from Individual to the Whole. 365 Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, 370 Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty bleft, Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along; VARIATIONS. VER. 373. Come then, my friend! &c.] in the MS. thus, And now transported o'er fo vaft a Plain, While the wing'd courfer flies with all her rein, NOTES. 374 VER. 373. Come then, my | ftrophe, by which the Poet conFriend! &c.] This noble Apo- cludes the Effay in an address And while the Mufe now stoops, or now ascends, To Man's low paffions, or their glorious ends, VARIATIONS. While heav'n-ward now her mounting wing the feels, NOTES. to his friend, will furnish a Critic with Examples of every one of thofe five Species of Elocution, from which, as from it Sources, Longinus deduceth the SUBLIME". 1. The firft and chief is a Grandeur and Sublimity of Con ception: Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along, And while the Mufe now ftoops, and now afcends, To Man's low paffions, or their glorious ends, 2. The Second, that Pathe- | fame Time, melts and intic Enthufiafm, which, at the flames: a Teach me, like thee, in various nature wife, 3. A certain elegant Formation and Ordonance of Figures: O! while along the ftream of Time thy name Purfue the triumph, and partake the gale! 2 πέντε πηγαί τινές εἰσιν τ' ὑψηγορίας. 1. Πρῶτον μὲν καὶ κράτισον τὸ περὶ τὰς νοήσεις αδρεπήβολον. 2. Δεύτερον δὲ τὸ σφοδρὸν καὶ ἐν θυσιασικὰ πάθω. 3. Ποιὰ τῶν σχημάτων πλάσις. 4. Ἡ γενναῖα φράσις. 5. Πέμε πλη δὲ μεγέθες αἰτία, καὶ συγκλείεσα τα ποὺ ἑαυτῆς ἅπανα, ἡ ἐν ἀξιώματα καὶ διάρσει σύνθεσις. Teach me, like thee, in various nature wife, grave to gay, from lively to severe ; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to pleafe. 380 Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, fhall my little bark attendant fail, 385 Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? When statesmen, heroes, kings, in dust repofe, 4. A fplendid Diction: NOTES. When ftate femen, heroes, kings, in duft repose, 5. And fifthly, which includes in itfelf all the reft, a Weight and Dignity in the Shew'd erring Pride whatever is, is RIGHT; That REASON, PASSION, answer one great AIM; That urg'd by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art COMMENTARY. VER. 394. Shew'd erring Pride, Whatever Is, is Right The poet's addrefs to his friend, which concludeth this epiftle fo nobly, and endeth with a recapitulation of the general argument, affords me the following obfervation, with which I fhall conclude these remarks. There is one great beauty that shines through the whole Effay: The Poet, whether he speaks of Man as an Individual, a Member of Society, or the Subject of Happinefs, never miffeth an opportunity, while he is explaining his flate under any of thefe capacities, to illuftrate it in the most artful manner by the inforcement of his grand Principle, That every thing tendeth to the good of the Whole, from whence his fyftem receives the reciprocal advantage of having that grand Theorem realized by facts, and his facts juftified on a principle of Right or Nature. Thus I have endeavoured to analyse, and explain the exact reafoning of these four epiftles. Enough I prefume to convince every one, that it hath a precifion, force, and clofeness of connection, rarely to be met with, even in the most formal treatises of Philofophy. Yet in doing this, it is but too evident I have deftroyed that grace and energy which animates the original. And now let the reader believe, if he be fo disposed, what a certain Critic upon this work infinuates to be his own opinion, as well as that of his friends: "Some perfons, fays he, have "conjectured that Mr. Pope did not compofe this Eflay at once, "and in a regular order; but that after he had wrote feveral fragments of poetry, all finished in their kind, (one, for "example, on the parallel between Reason and Instinct, an"other upon Man's groundless Pride, another on the Preroga ❝tives of human Nature, another on Religion and Superftition, "another on the Original of Society, and feveral fragments E |