Since Fortune veers with every wind, Was banifh'd Eden's blissful bowers. Think not to tafte perpetual joy. This earthly fcene with honour close. Spacious empire! glorious pow'r ! Let the wretched love to roam, Open, open, balmy Breaft, TE On GOOD HUMOUR. By the late Lord LYTTELTON. ELL me, ye fons of Phoebus, what is this And prudes, who fpy all faults except their own; } VERSES copied from the WINDOW of an obfcure LODGING-HOUSE STR in the Neighbourhood of LONDON. TRANGER, whate'er thou art, whofe reftlefs mind, From her white breaft retreat all rude alarms, What tho' to deck this roof no arts combine, • Macbeth. Yet Fanny's charms could Time's flow flight beguile, EPITAPH on Dr. GOLDSMITH. By W. WOTY. ADIEU, fiveet Bard! to each fine feeling true, Thy virtues many, and thy foibles few; Those form'd to charm e'en vicious minds-and Thefe LINES written by Mr. GARRIGK on the Back of his own Picture, which was fent lately to a Gentleman of the Univerfity of Oxford. "HE mimic form on t'other fide, That you accepted, is my pride; An EPIGRAM on MODERN MARRIAGES. W HEN Phoebus was am'rous, and long'd to be rude, And, rather than do fuch a naughty affair, She became a fine laurel to deck the god's hair. As fhe fled from his arms to diftinguish his brows. On VIEWING the CONCLUSION of the ancient RHINE, at CATWYK, near LEYDEN. Vifendus ater flumine languido. HORACE. NSTRUCTIVE Rhine! from whose mean exit springs IN What, tho' renown'd in Cafar's claffic page, Thy winding ftream the laughing Naiads lead Here cease thine honours-here thy ftream, no more A moral hence, that pleases while it pains. Who, wretched vot'ries at ambition's fhrine, Rotterdam, July 12, 1774. B. S. Q4 Account Account of Books for 1774. A New Syftem, or, an Analyfis of Ancient Mythology: wherein an Attempt is made to diveft Tradi tion of Fable, and to reduce the Truth to its original Purity. By Jacob Bryant, formerly of King's College, Cambridge, and Secretary to his Grace the late Duke of Marlborough, during his Command of the British Forces abroad, and Secretary to him as Mafter General of bis Majefty's Ordnance. Tavo vols. 4to. IT T is not without diffidence great that we venture to give any judgment upon this very elaborate and extremely ingenious performance. The extent and depth of erudition that is difplayed throughout, would have placed Mr. Bry. ant's name in the firft rank of learned men, in the most learned ages; and the accuracy and exactnefs of his judgment muft entitle him to ftand among the moft refpected names of critics, and antiquaries. It is no wonder, that the Grecian, and ftill more the Egyptian Mythology, fhould be involved in the darkeft obfcurity; and, if a thousand circumftances contributed to perplex and confound the firft enquirers, the difficulties muft in creafe tenfold upon thofe who followed them, who, at the very time they make thofe firft writers the authority for their own opinions, are obliged to detect their errors, and in a manner invalidate the very authority they themselves muft ftand upon; and yet this course they must follow, or they only copy antiquated and inveterate abfurdities. But this investigation, this difcrimination of truth from falfehood, confounded in the fame mafs, requires the clearest head, and the foundeft judgment, and is a work only fit for fuch a writer as Mr. Bryant. It is from his Preface that we make our extract, to let the reader fee what it is he proposes to do; and as it is a matter of conjecture, we will not prefume to say, whether he has or not abfolutely proved his hypothefis; but we will recommend it to our reader, as a work undoubtedly full of learning, and replete with ingenuity; infomuch, that thofe, who may not agree with the author in his theory, will at least be at a lofs how to anfwer his arguments. The reader will be startled to find that he is no longer to give credit to the conquefts of Ofiris, Dionufes, and Sefoftris, and will, we think, a little grieve, that the hiftories of Hercules and Perfeus are void of truth. But we will leave our author himfelf to speak the hardiness of his undertaking. "What |