This pure bliss dost thou bestow, Hark! the choral hymns of praise, Smiles thy face irradiate; Hark! the courteous zephyrs sweet, On seeing the bloom of a beautiful double-blossomed Cherry N beauty's fairest vest array'd, My garden pride, I fondly said, From thy fair sister's meaner bloom, Thy lovely, snowy blossoms draw My steps with magic pow'r, Thus did I speak, nor thought this bloom The beauty of a day; Its open'd foliage look'd so fair, I thought not of decay. But not a vestige now remains, Transient has been her lovely bloom, And well dejected may she view For, though with her the fruit is fled, Rebuk'd I stand, who thus could turn Then let this moral be impress'd And O, ye parents! watch with care, Nor to those charms direct your praise, Soon will that lovely bloom decay, Which we so fondly prize, And ev'ry sweet attractive grace, But when the gen'rous thought expands, Ah! let not folly hover round, When the gay scene of youth is o'er, This precious fruit not time destroys, Transplanted to a fairer clime, And ev'ry beauty still improve, Camden Street, Islington. A. F. Literary Review. Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political. By Fran cis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Jones. 6s. 6d. neatly done up in boards. THE HE name of Bacon has always associated along with it SCIENCE, in its various departments; HE it was that unlocked the stores of knowledge among the moderns, and diffused a radiance over this western part of the world. Bacon flourished in the reigns of Elizabeth, and James the first, and died 1626, at St. Albans, where he lies interred. His grand work was the Nouvum Organicum Scientiarum, the design of which was to lay down a more perfect method of exercising the faculty of reason, than had ever before been known. But his more popular work, which has been universally read and admired, are these "Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; the subjects of them are extremely interesting; the remarks very acute; and their tendency highly favourable to the promotion of virtue and piety. We have seldom seen a volume better calculated to advance the improvement of the mind, because the author, on every subject, displays such a knowledge of human nature, and expresses his sentiments with so much energy. It is our opinion, that the publisher of these Essays render an essential service to the public, by laying before them so elegant an edition of this valuable work. The paper and type are excellent; whilst the portrait of Bacon, being executed in the best manner, cannot fail of imparting to the reader of taste a great degree of satisfaction. In the short and well-written life prefixed to this edition, we are told, that Addison used to say of Bacon: "that he had the sound, distinct, comprehensive knowledge of Aristotle, with all the beautiful light graces and embellishments of Cicero." The honourable Mr. Walpole calls him the Prophet f Arts, which Newton was afterwards to reveal; and adds, "that his genius and works will be universally admired, as long as science exists." Το conclude, another great writer remarks: "Plato and Aristotle were men of a different cast; they did not pay so great a regard to truth and utility, nor instructed mankind so justly, nor opened the hidden veins of science so successfully, nor taught the art of philosophical invention so happily, as Lord Bacon." Britannia, a National Epic Poem, in Twenty Books; to which is prefixed a Critical Dissertation on Epic Machinery. By John Ogilvie, D. D. F. R. S. Edin. Rivington. 1. Is. DR R. Ogilvie has long been known in the republic of letters, by a variety of elegant and ingenious poems, which he has published on several occasions. At the age of eighteen he produced his famous poem entitled the Judgment Day, which passed through many editions, and established his reputation. Since that period he has laid before the public his Mona, his Providence, and other pieces of celebrity. The work before us displays much knowledge, together with no mean portion of poetic energy. He adopts the ancient tradition, that Brutus, who left Troy upon its destruction, settled in Britain, |