quisitely appropriated to the character he draws, "that one would suppose him animated by the spirit of the creature he describes. And with "all his drollery, there is a mixture of rational, "and even religious reflection, at times, and always an air of pleasantry, good-nature, and hu66 manity, that makes him, in my mind, one of the "most amiable writers in the world. It is not "l common to meet with an author, who can "make you smile, and yet at nobody's expense; "who is always entertaining, and yet always "harmless, and who though always elegant, and "classical, to a degree not always found in the "classics themselves, charms more by the sim"plicity and playfulness of his ideas, than by the "neatness and purity of his verse; yet such was poor Vinny." Hayley's Life of Cowper, 8vo. edit. vol. i. p. 258. CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. THE Song of the Three Children Canticum Trium Israelitarum Three Divine Hymns, taken from the Spectator. Hymn the first Hymnus primus Hymn the second Hymnus.secundus Hymn the third Hymnus tertius An Ode taken from the Beginning of Psalm xix Ode ex Initio Psalmi xix desumpta On the Ascension On All Saints Day In Festum Pentecostes Mutua Benevolentia primaria Lex Naturæ est In Obitum Roussæi Coll. T. Servi à Cubiculis 154 155 160 162 164 |