Ah! fhall not they desert the house's gloom, Breathe the fresh air one moment, and look smart? And fhare his kiffes in the fhady bower? The Devil's claws await the rogue and jade. "My chapel is the purifying place; There let them go to wash their fins away; Poor fouls! and then the feventh be forc'd to go, "Heaven glorieth not in phizzes of dismay; Heaven takes no pleasure in perpetual fobbing; Confenting freely, that my fav'rite day May have her tea and rolls, and hob and nobbing. "In footh, the I ord is pleas'd when man is bleft; And wifheth not his bliffes to blockade; 'Gainft tea and coffee ne'er did he protest, Enjoy'd, in gardens, by the men of trade. "Sweet is White Conduit-house, and Bagnigge-wells, "Life with the down of cygnets may be clad! Ah! why not make her path a pleasant track'; "No!" cries the Pulpit Terrorist how mad! "No! let the world be one huge hedge-hog's back." "Vice (did his figid mummery fucceed) Too foon would smile amid the facred walls; Venus, in tabernacles, make her bed; And Paphos find herself amid St. Paul's. "Avaunt, Hypocrify, the folemn jade, Who, wilful, into ditches leads the blind: Yet, Yet, lo! their butchers knock, with flesh repaft; THE MAN OF METHOD: TH HERE liv'd a Scholar late (a) of London fame, ; With (a) When I am very particular in the defcription of the character, I abstain from giving the leaft hint of a real name. "Quis rapiet ad fe quod erit commune omnium? or in Le Sage's inimitable language, qui fe fera connoitre mal à propos?" I only give this as a A Character, and fay no more. (6)The word and title of "DOCTOR" is miferably abufed. Erafmus long ago in an Epistle from Louvain in 1520 to the celebrated Cardinal Campeggio, oblerved with fome indignation," Unde DOCTORIS titulo gloriantur, nifi UT DOCEANT?" Erafmi Epift. Ed. Lond. Fol. 662. I wish this were written in large characters over the door of the Theatre at Oxford, and the Senate-Houfe at Cambridge. (6) Morofophos. i. e. Stultè fapiens- But more presently of Dr. MOROSO. PHOS, the Man of Method. (d) A learned and useful Profeffor of Natural Experimental Philofophy at Cambridge. See his Works. (e) All the learned world know how Lord Monboddo believed, and still believes, that men had once tails depending from the gable end of their bodies, fuppofing them to go upon all fours. (f) James Earle, Efq. Senior Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hofpital, and Editor of the celebrated PERCIVAL POTT's Works. I have been informed that the notes which Mr. Earle has added are valuable; nor would I pafs in filence the treatises he has given to the world in his own name, the result of extenfive practice and obfervation. (g)A young Surgeon of an accurate and philofophical spirit of investigation, from whole genius and labours I am led to think, that the medical art and natural fcience will hereafter receive great acceffions. (b) The With Symonds, and with Grafton's Duke (h) would vie, Afpecial clerk for method and for plan, A little architect in all his schemes, Refolv'd on eafe, his travels were at home, He lov'd, the pride of Chambers and of Soane. (m) And (b) The Duke of Grafton the Chancellor, and John Symonds, L.L. D. Profeffor of Modern Hiftory in the University of Cambridge, have both attracted the public attention by their various Hints and Obfervations on subjects of Scrip ture. (i) See the Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus. Chap. 1. How Dr. Cornelius obferved all the rules given by the antients to those who defire to generate children of wit, which Dr. Morofophos magnanimously disregarded. He neither cared for the South or the Weft Wind. (k) The three great, yet familiar, Letter-witers of the age are, John Nicholls, Efq. M. P. for Tregony, 1797. Sir James Murray (Pulteney) Secretary to the Duke of York in Germany, and the Rev. Dr. Randolph.-See "A Pair of Epiftles in verfe, with notes: the firft to the Rev. Dr. Randolph, &c." and edition, 1796. I recommend them to the general entertainment, and perhaps instruction of the publick. (1) That ingenious, accomplished, and very learned gentleman, ANDREW LUMISDEN, Esq. F.A.S. Edinb. has fince that time taught us all, in the most agreeable fcholar-like manner. See his "Remarks on the Antiquities of ROME and its Environs, being a claffical and topographical Survey of the Ruins of that celebrated City." 4to. 1797. It is a pleafing and moft judicious performance of a Gentleman who appears to have enjoyed the united advantages of foreign travel, ftudious leifure, and polite company. (m) Two celebrated architects. The profeffional knowledge of Sir W. Chambers, Knight, (of most heroick memory) was profound and fubftantial. Mr. Soane has more fancy and airinefs of defign, and is certainly a man of information and ingenuity. But he indulges himself a little too much in extravaganzas and whims. See the Bank. (n) I am obliged for this information to a Fellow of the S. of Antiquaries. Mr. And oft in thought, by antique pavements laid, And once, for purer air o'er rural ground, With little Daniel went his twelve miles round. On Sundays at Sir Jofeph's (o) never fail'd, Would fometimes treat, his wines of chofen fort; In Scrip not Hemings' (r) felf more vers'd than he, The Mr. Carter is a draftsman of the very firft merit, but his catholick zeal betrayed him, affifted by some Morofophifts of the Society, to attack THE FIRST GENIUS IN ARCHITECTURE, in this kingdom, MR. WYATT. Longa eft injuria: longa ambages. It is difficult to prove that the Society of Antiquaries was inftituted, folely to preferve the purity of Gothick Architecture, or to liften to the tiresome cabals of bufy Baronets, and meddling Romish priests.—But to us, under the aufpices of Wyatt, O Fortunati quorum pia tecta refurgunt! Aneas ait, et faftigia fulpicit urbis. (0) SIR JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. Knight of the Bath, Prefident of the Royal Society, Privy Counsellor, &c. &c. has inftituted a meeting at his houfe in Soho Square, every Sunday evening at which the Literati, and men of rank and confequence, and men of no confequence at all, find equally a polite and pleafing reception from that juftly diftinguifhed gentleman. SIR JOSEPH BANKS is fitted for his ftation in the learned world, not more from his attainments and the liberality of his mind, than by his particular and unremitted attention to the intereft and advancement of natural knowledge, and his generous patronage of the Arts. FORTUNÆ MAJORIS HONOS, ERECTUS ET ACER! (p) The ingenious Mr. Tennant has fhewn, in a paper read at the Royal Society, that he can reduce a Diamond by evaporation to Charcoal. I have heard, that Mrs. Haftings, and other great poffeffors of Diamonds, have a kind of Tennanto-phobia, and are fhy of this gentleman. A poor Poet, like myself, who has neither diamonds nor any thing precious belonging to him, can only remind Mr. Tennant and the Royal Society of the old proverb, "Carbonem pro Thefauro." (q) I can give no better character of his old Port. We all know on fuch occafions," Bacchum in remotis rupibus" is the fong of honeft Harry Dundas, in all the wildness of highland Dithyrambick; while Mr. Pitt, on the battlements of Walmer, in his own and Virgil's fober majesty, "OCEANO LIBEMUS. ait." (r) Dr. Morofophos now and then dabbled in the funds. The gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, or The College, (as it is termed in City-wit) are much indebted to that eminent calculator of different payments, Mr. Hemings. Boyd, Benfield, Solomon Solomon, Nathan Solomon, E. P. Solomon, Thelluffon, Old Daniel Giles, Mr. Battie, Lord Lanfdowne, Dr. Moore, Little Count Rupee, and all thofe who look an eighth better or worse for the opening, know that I am right, in pronouncing the panegyrick of this learned claffick on the Stock Exchange, "Prens The Bengal Squad he fed, though wondrous nice; (Not your damn'd dollars (), or Bank-paper trafh) He talk'd, like Indian («) Rennell rather long; And then with Burney, as his fit grew warmer, A Poet "Prens moi là bon parti; laisse la tous les livres. (s) This verfe was evidently written after the 26th of Feb. 1797, after the order of Council was fent to the Bank of England, when the whole nation was made to pass through the pillars of Hercules; or in plain English, to take dollars for current filver. (1) Caleb Whitefoord, Efq.-N. B. If you do but touch him, puns ftand as ready as quils upon the fretful porcupine. I wish him health and fpirits for many a year, in a green old age; and then with the Epinicion of Horace, Vita cedat, uti conviva fatur. (u) Major James Rennell, the great Geographer of India, i waw. A gentleman to whofe accuracy and extent of knowledge this country is confiderably indebted. But this has nothing to do with his converfation. (x) Dr. Morofophos, the man of method, was rather troublesome to his friends on this fubject of Greek Mufick. He wished to pafs for another Meibomius. But there is still reafon to think that he never faw the three hymns to Calliope, Apollo, and Nemefis, printed with the Greek mufical notes to which they were fung, at the end of the Oxford edition of Aratus in 1672, by Dr. Fell, or the more accurate copy of thefe hymns in Mr. Burette's Memoire on this fubject. Memoires de l'Academie des Infcriptions, tom. 5.-Dr. Morofophos knew but little of the fyftem of the Lydian Mode in the diatonick genus. There is also reafon to think the knew as little, as Bishop Horfley, of the Пpočλajbavoμɛvos★ the Υπατη ύπαων, or the Παρυπάτη μέσων, &c. (y). "Stentor is celebrated by Homer as the most illuftrious throat performer of antiquity." Burney's Hift. of Mufic. 4to. vol. 1. p. 340. (z) Maurice Mo gan, Efq; an ingenious writer, author of the pleasant Extravaganza on the Courage of Sir John Falstaff. Mr. Morgan is known to his friends by the name of Sir John. In his politicks, he is of the Lansdown School. |