SEMICHORUS. Oh fource of ev'ry social tye, United wish, and mutual joy! What various joys on one attend, As fon, as father, brother, husband, friend? 25 While thousand grateful thoughts arise; 30 Or meets his fpoufe's fonder eye; Or views his smiling progeny; What tender paffions take their turns, His heart now melts, now leaps, now burns, CHORUS. Hence guilty joys, distastes, furmises, Fires that scorch, yet dare not shine : Pureft love's unwafting treasure, NOTES. 36 40 a These two Chorus's are enough to fhew us his great talents for this fpecies of Poetry, and to make us lament he did not profecute his purpose in executing fome plans he had chalked out; but the Character of the Managers of Playhouses at that time, was what (he said) foon determined him to lay afide all thoughts of that nature. HA ODE on SOLITUDE. APPY the man, whose wish and A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. care Whofe herds with milk, whofe fields with bread, Bleft, who can unconcern'dly find Quiet by day, Sound fleep by night; study and ease, Thus let me live, unfeen, unknown, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. This was a very early production of our Author, written at about twelve years old. P. CONTENT S OF THE That a true Tafte is as rare to be found, as a true Ge- That most men are born with fome Tafte, but spoiled by That we are to study our own Taste, and know the Nature the best guide of Judgment, ver. 68 to 87. Improv'd by Art and Rules, which are but methodis'd Rules derived from the practice of the Ancient Poets, That therefore the Ancients are necessary to be study'd by a Critic, particularly Homer and Virgil, ver. Of Licenfes, and the use of them by the Ancients, ver. |