For the MONTHLY MISCELLANY,

ORPHEUS.

An Imitation of BOETHIUS.
Felix, qui potuit boni

Fontem vifere lucidum, &e.

SUPREMELY bleft the man, who cou'd
Behold the glorious fource of good!
Whose firm refolves of doing well
Cou'd break the chains of earth and hell!

When once the widow'd bard of Thrace,
With folemn airs, his hapless cafe
Sweetly bewail'd! the lift'ning grove,
Enchanted with his ftrains, cou'd more:
The liquid floods forgat to flow,

Such was the charmful pow'r of woe!
The spotted hind enjoy'd the fong
Dauntless, her brinded foes among;
And hares, attentive to the found,
Sat fearless by the placid hound.

The pow'r of mufic all confefs'd,
All but the woful master's breast:
His fong unpitying heav'n upbraids,
While fad he feeks th' infernal shades;
There fummons all his tuneful art,
His measure there new joys impart;
The hollow regions all around
Re-echo back the plaintive found,
While ev'ry air attends his lyre,
That grief cou'd fwell or love inspire.
The triple Cerb'rus stood at gaze,
Silent and raptur'd with amaze;
The furies too relented then,

And fhar'd for once the mourner's pain;
No longer turn'd Ixion's wheel,
Nor Tantalus his thirst cou'd feel,
Tityus awhile untortur'd lay,
The Vultur now difdain'd his prey.-
Vanquish'd at length, grim Pluto cry'd,
"Give back the bard his lovely bride,
"His loft Euridice reftore,

"Redeem'd by strains unheard before,

But still be thus the gift reftrain'd, "Since thus of old the fates ordain'd, "If back he turn his withful fight "Again to view the realms of night,

"For ever doom'd be then his eyes "To lofe the now-remitted prize."

Alas! what laws can Love controul, That lawless tyrant of the foul? As now the Thracian lover fped Along the confines of the dead, Some anxious cares poffefs'd his mind, He turn'd him round with hope to find The fair, who seem'd to lag behind : But, ah! the fair no more he views, For ever loft from fear to lose!

O you, whose wishes lead the way To realms of never-ending day, Look forward ftill, and still prevail, Urg'd by the moral of my tale. Who raise the view to things above No fancy'd retrospect fhould move, Since fuch must all that's dear forego, If once they fix their eyes below.

For the MONTHLY MISCELLANY. Advice to PARENTS and TEACHERS. Occafioned by the following passage in TERENCE, viz.

Hoc patrium eft, potiùs confuefacere filium
Sua fponte recte facere, quàm alieno metu.
Hoc pater ac dominus intereft: boc qui nequit
Fateatur nefcire imperare liberis. ADELPH.
N all your teaching keep the rod aloof,

For Vice alone can merit fuch reproof.
Yet where an obftinate perverfenefs rules,
It well demands the rigour of the fchools.
To other failings be correction kind,
Encouragement best suits a gen'rous mind.
But laws imperious gentle tempers change;
Diftafte creating and aversion strange:
Soft fpirits are by cruelty outdone,
And roughness marrs what goodiefs would
have won.

Paternal he, whose conduct gains the child
Wifely by choice to act, humanely mild.
No charms has learning, and no grace the

Law,

Blacken'd by terrors and enforc'd by awe : But where inftruction and difcretion lead, Where ardour fpurs and honour is the meed, With hafty steps he feeks the mufes' haunts, The scene invites him, and the lore enchants. "Thus, train'd with happiest care, aloft he fprings,

*Like the bold eaglet on parental wings, Who while his eyes enjoy th' effulgent ray, Plumes his new pinions in the blaze of day.

But fome, condemn'd to ignorance and ease, Cœleftial science has no charms to please; Perversely rude and fatally unlearn'd, Where the blank tablet may be still discern'd; As on the barren rock the copious rain, Diverted from the glebe, defcends in vain, The feeds of knowledge to no end are caft, And difcipline, pour'd in, runs off as faft.

Be foreign languages inftill'd with ease, Alluring method, and a plan to please: Who teaches French by French, or Greek by Greck?

Why then by Latin, Latin learn to speak?
But let his own peculiar tongue convey
Thofe firft inftructions which with ease
it may;

And let your rules with early fancy chime,
Adding to fenfe the jingle of a rhime;
So fhall the words a ready entrance find,
And through the ravish'd ear engage the
mind;

As horfes in a team enjoy the found,

Nor heed the burden while the bells ring round.

This done; in Roman rules he may review
All that he learn`d, grammatical and true;
As eafe and pleasure introduc'd the past,
Sameness and judgment will impress the last.

When vers'd in thefe, fele&t from all the reft,

Few claffic authors, and of them the best, Where the sweet dignity of graceful eafe Will claim the heart, and muft for ever please; Where judgment should remark in ev'ry line Ideas well express`d, nor spun too fine: Thefe charm the fenfe, and give us joys in ftore,

Like half-feen beauties, while we guess at more,

And pleafe, like mod'rate dainties on your

you; While flowing action urges home the cause, Gilds ev'ry period and demands applause. In public fpeaking few perfection reach PRONUNCIATION is the life of fpeech: Who takes the eye and ear performs the whole;

Through thefe affections all engage the foul.

Now lead him to the Mufes' facred feat, Where Cam or Ifiis lave the calm retreat; Where fcience fage, and focial converse join'd, Improve the manners and enlarge the mind."

Oh! How my foul regrets her early days, Torn from the reverend feats of learned ease, Where peace unfhaken held her blefs'd abode, And the mild ftream of temperate pleasure

flow'd,

Nor fear'd by oblique eyes to be furvey'd, Or in reflexion's equal balance weigh'd !

An Addrefs to an Ironmonger, on his Birth-day. H, LOCKMAN ! may thy angel true Thy chain of life extend,

OH

And add a thousand links thereto;

So prays thy merry friend.

And may'ft thou neither ruft nor ftain,
Nor canker ever feel;

With heart as foft as filken fkin,

Thy ribs be ribs of steal.

Loud as a cannon through the land,

May thy good name refound,
And the ftrong hammer of thy hand
Thy enemies confound.
Aided by thee, my verses flow,
Their tinkling owe to thee,
As iron fharp'neth iron, fo

Thy friendship fharp'neth me.
Keen be thy fenfe, like fword that's try'd,
Thy wit like point of prong;

Thy judgment like a faw, divide

The right fide from the wrong.
Firm as an anvil may'st thou bear

The ftrokes of ev'ry clime;
And, like an harden'd file, still wear
The teeth of envious time.

Round in thyself, like polifh'd ball,

Shine always fmooth and bright; When other IRONMONGERS full,

May'ft thou ftand bolt upright:

And when life's forge will work no more,
Fire gone, and metal cold;
Alchemift DEATH, at touch, thy ore

Shall all tranfmute to gold.

Long as the plough fhall turn the mould,
Or needle feck the pole;

While fetters, locks, and bars can hold,
Thy love fhall nail my foul.
Cambridge.

TOGATUS.

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To Mifs HILL, of BRISTOL, on hearing her play upon the HARPSICHORD.

By NATHANIEL ELLIOT.

WHENC

HENCE fpring those charming notes, inchantress, tell,

Which bind me captive by this artful spell ?
Is there fome god confin'd within that cafe,
Who, with thy touch enraptur'd, longs to fee
thy face?

Or art thou, fair one, of the facred nine,
Who in that form conceal'it the maid divine?
Whoe'er thou art, if yet thou, haft no name,
I'll call thee Goddefs; O, my breast inflame!
And let my verfe an eafy cadence know,
Soft as thofe founds which from thy fingers
flow,

ftrain,

Orpheus' no more, nor fweet Timotheus'
[fwain;
Shall charm the brute, or rouze the timid
But harmoniz'd by my fuperior lay,
Like me, all nature fhall thy power obey.

Aldborough, York/h. Charles Wilkinson, Efq.

Appleby,

Beaumaris,

Abel Smith, Efq.

Philip Honeywood, Efq.
George Johnstone,* Efq.
Sir Hugh Williams.

Beeralfton, Sir Francis Henry Drake, Bt.
Hon. George Hobart

Boffiney,

r

Hon. Henry Lawes Luttrell, Rt. Hon. Lord Mountítuart. Callington, John Dyke Acland, Efq. William Skrine, Efq. Denbigh, Richard Myddleton, Efq. Eaftlowe, Sir Ch. Whitworth, J. Buller, Efq. St. Germains, Ed. Eliot, R. L'Anglois, Efqrs. Grimsby, Jof. Mellifh, Evelyn Anderfon, Efqrs. Haverfordwest, William Edwardes, Efq. Hertford, John Calvert, Paule Fielde, Efqrs. Helfton, Cornwall, (a double return)

Marq. Caermarthen, Fra. Owen, Esq. Fra. Cockayne Cuft, Ph. Yorke, Efqrs. Horsham, Right Hon. Jere. Dyson*. James Wallace, Efq.

St. Ives, Adam Drummond, W. Praed, Efqrs. Lefkeard, Samuel Salt, Edw. Gibbon, Efqrs. Leftwithiel, Vife. Fairford, Cha. Brett, Efq. Lincolnshire, Lord Brownlow Bertie,

Charles Anderton Pelham, Efq. Lincoln, Lord Viscount Lumley,

Robert Viner, jun. Efq.
Lymington, Sir Harry Burrard, Bart.
Edward Morant, Efq.

Merionethfhire, Tho. Alhethon Smith, Efq.
St. Maw's, Ld Clare,* Hugh Bofcawen, Efq.
St. Michael, Ja. Scawen, John Stephenfon,
Newcastle-under- Lord Vife. Cheruton, [Efqrs.
Line, Sir George Hay, Knt.
Oakhampton, Richard Vernon, Efq.*
Alex. Wedderburn,* Efq.
Sir Richard Phillips, Bart.
Paul Henry Ourry, Efq.

Plympton,

Reigate, Hon, John Yorke, Sir Cha. Cocks.
Richmond, Right Hon. Sir Lawr. Dundas,*
Thomas Dundas,* Efq.

Saltafh, Grey Cooper, Th. Bradshaw, Efqrs.
Shercham,
Charles Goring, Efq. 372
Rt. H. Sir John Shelly,* 320

Unfuccefsful, Mr. Aldridge,
Suffex,

199 Lord George Henry Lennox, Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson, + Unfuccefsful, Sir James Peachy. The number polled for Sir Thomas Spencer Wilfon was 112 more than for Sir James Peachy; and of 3907 freeholders who polled, 3583 voted for Lord Lennox. Sir James accufes the theriff of partiality, and means to refer the merits of the election to the Houfe of Commons. This oppofition, it is faid, coft upwards of 1 5,000l. Tavitiock,

Truro,

Right Hon. Richard Rigby, Hon. Rd. Fitzpatrick,* jun. Bamber Gascoyne, Efq.. George Bofcawen, jun. Efq.

Major Robert Laurie, jun.

Dumfermline, &c, Archibald Campbell, Etq. Elgin hire,

Hon. Arthur Duff.

Elgin, Cullen, &c. Coloner Staats Long Morris.
Fortrofe, Forrefs, &c. He or Munro, Efq.
Invernefsthire, Major-Gen. Simon Frafer.
Kircudbright, William Stewart, Efq.
Unfuccefsful, Mr. Heron.

Orkney & Zetlandfh. Tho. Dundas, jum. Esq.
Perthshire, Hon. James Murray.
Rothefay, Inverary, &c. Sir George Macartney.
Sutherlandfhire, Hon. James Wemyss.
Tayn, Dornock, &c. Lieut. Col. James Grant!
Wigtonfhire, Hon. Capt. Keith Stewart.
Wigton, &c. Forres Dallwood, Efq.

Returned for different places.

J. Adams, Efq. for Wendover & Camarthen.
John Buller, Efq. Launceston and Eaft Loee.
Edm. Burke, Efq. Briftoi and Malton.
Ld Tho, Clinton, Weftmintter & Eaft Retford.
Wenman Coke, Efq. Norfolk and Derby.
Sir Law.Dundas, Richmond & Edinburgh,
Tho. Dundas, Efq. Richmond & Stirlingshire,
Tho, Fonnereau, Efq. Aldeburgh & Sudbury,
G. Johnftone, Efq. Appleby & Cockermouth,
Herb, Mackworth, Efq. Midhurst & Cardiff,
Sir Wm. Mayne, Canterbury & Gatton.
Sir Ja. Lowther, Cumberland & Weltmorel.
C. Mellifh, Efq. Pontefract & Boroughbridge,
Hu. Morice, Efq. Launceiton and Newport,
Flet. Norton, Efq. Carlife & Cockermouth,
James Scawen, Efq. Surry and St. Michael,
Robert Scott, Efq. Gatton & Wotton-bafett.
Clement Tudway, Efq. Wells and Midharit,
Alex. Wedderburn, Efq. Okehampion and
Cattle-Riina.
Double Returns, for Helftone & Morne-Port. !
Seats already vacated.

Leicestershire, by the Ho., Pho, Nock
ceeding his father as Lor V. Wenke
Saltash, by the death of The Buddy
Shrewsbury, by the dd Lord i
Cricklade, by the death of Win, Dole
Heliton, by the death of Fr. Owen, 1

h.

iq.

fq.