All that further feems neceffary to confirm our general approbation of this edition, is to fubjoin a few fpecimens of Dr. Warton's annotations, which we do without any par ticular care of felection. "Tortures may force the tongue untruths to tell, Reply'd the Panther: grant fuch prefence were, A real virtue we by faith receive, And that we in the facrament believe. Then, faid the Hind, as you the matter ftate, * Not only Jefuits can equivocate." Vol. 11. P. 48. "It is worth remarking that many years before the French revolution, the greatest blow the Church of Rome ever received, was by the expulfion of the large, and opulent, and able body of the Jefuits; effected on the very fame day in conjunction by the crowns of Spain, Portugal, and France, and authorized by the Pope himself. It is marvellous that this fociety could con. tinue fo long, after it had been fo irresistibly exposed and satirized by the wit, the eloquence, and the piety of Pafcal. This perhaps is the most capital piece of controverfy that ever was writ ten. The Jefuits, when they were expelled, had long loft their character for literature. For near fifty years before this event, they had produced no extraordinary work, and had turned all their thoughts and abilities to mean court intrigues, and to va rious branches of commerce. It is well if they do not turn this very difpofition to fome unforeseen advantage, and diffeminate principles, and form fects, injurious to the peace of society, and the liberty and profperity of Europe. I beg leave to add, that among this learned body, I have always looked up to one with particular regard and refpect, I mean, the great father Petau, of whom it is painful to add that he died in the Jefuit's college at Paris, abandoned and in want, for having faid, that before the council of Nice, the Church had not made any decifion about the divinity of the Word. When Petau's phyfician told him on his death-bed he could not live two hours longer, Then, faid the father, I beg you to accept of this book, giving him his Rationarium temporum, for the messenger of good news fhould always be rewarded. "The Abbé Boileau ufed to fay of the Jefuits, Thefe gentlemen lengthen the creed, and fhorten the decalogue. And in fome MS. letters of Cardinal Fleury, he fays, "The Jefuits are excellent valets, but fad masters." "If the Jefuits," faid Montefquieu, had lived before Lather and Calvin, they would have been mafters of the world. "There was a college of Ex-jefuits ftill left at Rome, 1793, who were often confulted by Pope Pius the VIth, and the car dinals, * "The patience of the Hind did aimoft fail'; For well the mark'd the malice of the tale." P. 112. Their welcome fuit was granted foon as heard, dinals, particularly father Zacchariah, who was intimate with the jacobin Mamuchi. Charles III. King of Spain, never for gave the Jefuits for fpreading the report that he was the fon of Cardinal Alberoni, and not of Philip the Vth. These Jesuits at Rome attributed the French revolution to their expulfion: faying, they were the only order that kept alive and propagated the principles of the Chriftian religion." Dr. J. WARTON. But her patience would have been still more exhausted, if her antagonist had told her, that in the difpute that arofe be twixt the Senate of Venice and the Church of Rome, about the year 1615, in the time of Pope Paul the Fifth, the partifans of the latter, and particularly Bellarmine, maintained that the Pope is invested with all the authority of heaven, and earth; that all princes are his vaffals, arid that he may annul their laws at pleafure; that Kings may appeal to him, as he is temporal monarch of the whole earth; that he can difcharge fubjects from their oaths of allegiance, and make it their duty to take up arms against their fovereign; that he may depofe kings without any fault committed by them, if the good of the Church requires it; that the clergy are exempt from all tributes to Kings, and are not accountable to them even in cafes of high treafon; that the Pope cannot err; that the Pope is God on earth; that his fen. rence and that of God are the fame; and that to call his power in queftion, is to call in question the power of God. Though Erafmus had not the refolution and vigour of Luther, yet by his incomparable ridicule he greatly promoted the Reformation. What an exquilite wit and fatire is the dialogue entitled Julius Exclufus, written certainly by Erafmus, though he rather denied it. See Jortin's Life, vol. 11. p. 600. See Sallengre de Paf quillis, &c. This Julius was published in 1669, and alfo 1680, at Oxon. The Panther might alfo have reminded her antagonist of a fact that he would not like to be told of, that there was printed and publifhed, at Paris, 1589, a Relation of the Martyrdom of Brother Jaques Clement, in which it is affirmed, that an angel had appeared to him, had fhewn him a drawn fword, and ordered him to kill the tyrant. This is inferted in the Satyre Menippée." Dr. J. WARTON. Bb 4 paper "A portly "A portly prince *, and goodly to the fight, He feem'd a fon of Anach for his height: "This character of Buzzard was intended to ridicule Bishop Burnet, who had attacked Dryden for a translation of Varillas. Montagu and Prior make their Bays fpeak thus of this paffage : -"The excellence of a fable is in the length of it. Æfop indeed, like a flave as he was, made little, fort, fimple ftories, with a dry moral at the end of them, and could not form any noble defign. But here, I give you fable upon fable; and after you are fatisfied with beafts in the first courfe, ferve you up with a delicate dish of fowl for the fecond: now I was at all this pains to abufe one particular perfon; for I'gad I'll tell you what a trick he ferved me; I was once tranflating a very good French author, but being fomething long about it, as you know a mar. is not always in the humour; what does this Jack do, but puts out an answer to my friend before I had half-finished the tranflation; fo there was three whole months loft upon his account. But I think I have my revenge on him fufficiently, for I let all the world know that he is a tall, broad-back'd, lufty fellow, of a brown complexion, fair behaviour, a fluent tongue, and taking amongst the women; and to top it all, that he's much a fcholar, more a wit, and owns but two facraments. Don't you think this fellow will hang himself? But, befides, I have fo nick't his character in a name, as will make you fplit. I call him—I'gad I won't tell you, unless you remember what I said of him, "Smith. Why that he was much a scholar, and more a wit. Bayes. Right, and his name is Buzzard, Ha! ha! ha! Dr. J. WARTON." "Ibid. This violent and cutting fatire on Bishop Burnet, which approaches the very verge of downright and difgufting ribaldry, must be accounted for (I will not fay apologized) by the Bishop's having called Dryden a monster of impiety, for the obfcenities, blafphemies, and falfhoods, with which he faid our author's works abounded, Burnet's own character appears every day to be more and more approved, and brightened by calm examination. His Hiftory of his own Time, allowing, perhaps, that it is written in too carelefs and familiar a style, yet abounds in moft curious facts that otherwife would have been unknown, and this very familiarity is pleafing. His Hif. tory of the Reformation is furely a moft valuable and important work, and one of the moft decifive blows Popery ever received. His Expofition of the Articles is fenfible, acute, and candid; with a laudable endeavour to free them from fome feeming abfurdities and contradictions. And his fhort account of Lord Rochester a most useful, pious, and inftructive little narrative. Dr. J. WARTON." Like those whom ftature did to crowns prefer: More learn'd than honest, more a wit than learn'd: Or both conjoin'd, his native clime he fled : We shall fatisfy ourselves with adding Dr. Warton's remarks on the immortal Ode on St. Cecilia's day. "If Dryden had never written any thing but this Ode, his name would have been immortal, as would that of Gray, if he had never written any thing but his Bard. It is difficult to find new terms to exprefs our admiration of the variety, richnefs, and melody of its numbers; the force, beauty, and dif tinctness of its images; the fucceffion of fo many different paffions and feelings; and the matchlefs perfpicuity of its diction. The feene opens, in the firft ftanza, in an awful and august manner. The amours of Jupiter are described in a majestic manner in the fecond, with allufions to Alexander's being flattered with the idea of his being the fon of Jupiter and a god. But the fweet musician alters his tone in the third ftanza to the praises of Bacchus, and the effects of wine; which infpiring the king with a kind of momentary phrenzy and pride, Timotheus fuddenly changes his hand, and in an air exquifitely pathetic, particularly the repetition of the words fallen, fallen, &c. fets before our eyes the fall and death of Darius, without a friend to attend him in his last moments. But the artift know. ing how nearly allied Pity was to love, reminds the hero of the prefence of his beautiful Thais, and defcribes minutely the effects of his paffion for her. He does not, however, fuffer him long to loiter in the lap of pleasure, but inftantly roufes him with deeper and louder notes, till he ftaring around, Eumenidum demens videt agmina, with their eyes full of indignation, and their hair crowded with hiffing ferpents, followed by a band of Grecian ghofts, who demand vengeance from their leader, toffing on high the torches they held in their hands, and pointing to the Perfian temples and palaces, urging him to deftroy them with Such is the unexampled combination of poetical beautics, of almost every fort, in which this juttly admired Ode abounds. No No particle of it can be wifhed away, but the epigrammatic turn of the four concluding lines. Dr. J. WARTON." P. 345. It will of courfe be lamented that thefe notes are not more numerous, but it would be unjust not to obferve, that the edition is materially benfited and improved by Mr. Todd's animadverfions and collations. The book is beautifully printed, uniformly in fize with the four volumes of Dryden's profe works by Mr. Malone, to which it is a valuable and indeed neceffary accompaniment for those who may wish to poffefs all the more interefting parts of this illuftrious poet's productions. ART. VI. The Artist; a Collection of Effays, relative to Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Architecture, the Drama, Dif coveries of Science, and various other Subjects. Edited by Prince Hoare. In two Volumes. 4to.. 21. 2s. Murray, &c. 1810. THESE Effays appeared periodically, and are quite of a new kind, being the production, chiefly, of a fet of real and eminent artifts, not of a party of profeffed wits. The names which are now added to the Effays, are fuch as to confer a ftill livelier intereft on the work. Besides the name of the ingenious editor, Mr. Hoare, we find those of Northcote, Hoppner, Elmes, Well, Opie, Rigaud. Among perfons not immediately connected with that profeffion, Cumberland, Pye, Cavallo, Dr. Jenner, Mr. Carlisle, Mr. Hope, Mrs. Inchbald, and others. Such a phalanx of talent is furely fufficient to attract attention, and it ought to be attracted; for there is unquestionably much merit in the Effays. Opie would probably have been a larger contributor, but that his career was ju then clofing. His death is recorded in the feventh Effay, and a very handfome tribute paid to his merits by feveral friends. One paper only bears his name, which is No. 10, in the fecond volume, being a fragment on compofition in painting, taken doubtless from the papers which he left unfinished. Hoppner does not appear after the first volume. He alfo was declining in health, and died on the 23d of January, 1810, lamented by many as an artist, and by a select few as an intimate friend'; by none more than by the writer of this article, who had known him from a child, watched the developement of his |