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 page 29 of the Verse, line 4, for rock, read rack; p. 42, 1. 24, for |