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p. 221, 1. 23. sq.

Candid to censure, generous to commend.

In these two lines Mr. Paine seems to have taken no pains to disguise the thought, or the phrase, or the rythm of Pope.

EPILOGUE TO THE POOR lodger.

The Epilogue to the Poor Lodger, which as well, as the Clergyman's Daughter, is one of our native plays, was spoken by Mrs. Darley, who speaks in the ten first lines, as from herself, to the audience. The gratitude of that interesting actress cannot be more sincere, than the pleasure, which her performance always excites.

p. 230, 1. 4.

That gallant form, which breathed a nation's mind.

Such abstraction, as this line exemplifies, does not easily ally itself with poetry.

p. 230, 1. 6.

But Victory writes his epitaph in tears.

Though it wants distinctness and consistency, this thought is boldly personified.

p. 231, 1. 3.

And o'er its cliffs to bid the banner wave.

David's picture of Buonaparte crossing the Alps might have occasioned this line.

p. 231, 1. 8.

Where war had left no stone without a name.

This line is an almost literal version of a line of the Pharssalia.

p. 234, 1.14.

Couched ambush listened in the deep morose.

The lurking place is not less luckily imagined, than the personification and posture of Ambush.

p. 233, 1. 5.

O'er hill, or vale, where'er the sky descends.

This paragraph, and the three succeeding paragraphs, are expanded and brightened to a pomp and splendour, which rarely discover themselves in other parts of the poem.

p. 235, 1. 7.

There, sacring mourner, see Britannia shreads.

Sir William Temple and Shakespeare are cited by Johnson under sacring. The one seems to use it as a participle, the other as a substantive. It is found in one of the four dialogues on the Pursuit of Literature. I fear that Mr. Paine has not given to it its proper import.

p. 235, 1. 15.

Sweet sleep Thee, Brave! In solemn chaunt, shall sound.

Here is a wild and wanton anomaly, which no rule of grammar or syntax can reconcile to any idiom, or any licence of the language.

p. 235, l. 24.

It dies in distance, while its echo floats.

Into this paragraph Mr. Paine has breathed much of the charming fancy, and somewhat of the melting pathos of Collins; as with the preceding paragraph, he has blended not a little of the fire and freedom of Dryden.

p. 236, 1. 4.

Shall seek thy tomb, to read the tale it bears.

Of these four lines, the two first are well finished. Collins may be traced in the two last.

p. 236, 1.10.

His country all he loved, and all he feared his God.

Except that it is introduced by a word of little weight or dignity, the command to ruin is a daring felicity. The second line of the epitaph is a weak and puling verse.

ERRATA.

In page 17 of the Biography, line 19, dele the word Treat; p 41, 1. 20,
in a few copies, for unsuccessfuly, read unsuccessfully; p. 42, l. 20, for
complementary, read complimentary.

In page 29 of the Verse, line 4, for rock, read rack; p. 42, 1. 24, for
flagrant, read fragrant; p. 85, l. 5, for rout, read route; p. 104, 1
5, for
bounteous, read beauteous; p. 140, 1 6, for ne'er, read e'er; p. 141, l. 3,
for blendid, read blended; p. 155, 1. 3, for clamoruus, read clamorous;
p. 158, l. 24, for banquit, read banquet; p. 179, 1. 19, for rout, read route;
p. 180, 1. 29, for lovliest read loveliest; p. 181, 1. 27, for penace, read
penance; p. 192, 1. 22, for mytholegy, read mythology; p. 210, 1. 29, for
Carthian, read Parthian; p. 215, 1. 21, in a few copies, for Fobling, read
Fopling; p. 233, 1. 19, for sport, read spot; p. 239, 1. 10, for capital,
read capitol; p 255, l. 11, for thy, read the; p. 263, l. 5, after the word
spheres, dele the period and insert a comma; p. 289, l. 16, for acron, read
acorn; p. 293, 1. 11, for fioating, read floating; p. 319 of the Prose, 1. 19,
for alters, read altars; p. 339, 1. 21, for appaled, read appalled; p. 349, 1.
21, for moat, read mote; 370, 1. 21, for Venus, read Venice; p. 373, l. 11,
for reflexion, read inflection; p. 394, 1. 25, turned, read turbid; 1.26, for
venal, read venial; p. 400, 1. 20, dele the word and; p 401, 1. 14, for
parentald iscovery, read parental discovery.

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