Revifitft not thefe Eyes that roll in vain
To find thy piercing Ray, and find no dawn :
So thick a drop ferene has quench'd their Orbs
Or dim Suffufion veil'd! Yet not the more
Ceafe I to wander where the Mufes haunt
Clear Spring, or fhady Grove, or Sunny Hill,
Smit with the Love of Sacred Song; but chief,
Thee, Sion, and thy flowry Brooks beneath
That wash thy hallow'd Feet, and warbling flow,
Nightly I vifit. Nor fometimes forget
Thofe other Two equall'd with me in Fate
(So were I equell'd with them in Renown)
Blind Thamyris and blind Mæonides,
And Tirefias and Phineus, Prophets Old.
Then feed on Thoughts that voluntary move
Harmonious Numbers; as the Wakeful Bird
Sings darkling, and in fhadieft Coverts hid,
Tunes her Nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year
Seafons return, but not to me returns

Day, or the fweet approach of Ev'n, or Morn,
Or fight of vernal Bloom, or Summers Rose,
Or Flocks or Herds, or Human Face Divine:
But Cloud inftead, and ever-during Dark
Surrounds me, from the chearful ways of Men
Cut off; and, for the Book of Knowledge fair,
Prefented with an Universal Blank

Of Nature's Works to me expung'd and raz'd,
And Wifdom at one Entrance quite fhut out.
So much the rather, thou Celestial Light,
Shine inward, and the Mind thro' all her Pow'rs
Irradiat: There plant Eyes, all mift from thence
Purge and Difperfe, that I may fee and tell
Of Things invifible to Mortal Sight.

Mr. Dryden allows that Milton's Thoughts are Elevated, his Words founding, and that no Man tas fo happily Copied the manner of Homer; or fa

Copi

Copiously Tranflated his Grecifms, and the Latin Elegancies of Virgil. His Defcription of the Pandamonium, Battle of the Angels, and Digreffion of Light, as well as The Creation of the World, in his Paradife Loft, are all inimitable pieces; tho' Mr. Dryden will not allow his Subject to be that of an Heroick Poem, properly fo called; because the Event is not profperous (but lofing our Happiness) like that of all other Heroick Works. His Defcription of Sampfon's Death, and the fevere Satire on Woman, in his Difcourfe with Dalilah, are of a piece with his other Writings; and to fay nothing of his Paradice Regained, his Poems on Mirth and Melancholly; An Elegy on his Friend that was Drowned; and particularly a Fragment of the Paffion, are incomparable: He was the fulleft and loftieft Poet we ever had, and came up to that---Mens divinior atque os---a Magna Sonaturum----Described by Horace.

Mrs. MOLESWORTH.

HIS Lady was the Daughter of the Right

TH Honourable the Lord Molefworth, a Noble

man of Ireland, who is a Perfon of the Greatest Abilities, and Employs them in the fervice of his Country: He is a zealous afferter of the Proteftant Intereft, and his incomparable Pen has been oftentimes ufed in the Caufe of Liberty, The pieces writtin by his ingenious Daughter, are Published under the Title of MARINDA. Poems and Tranflations upon feveral Occafions; with a Dedication to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, written by his Lordship. This Dedication is very much admired for its Excellent Character of the Princess;

and

and the Poems and Tranflations, which fhew the true Spirit and Numbers of Poetry, a Delicacy of Turns, and juftness of thought and expreffion, having the Approbation of her Royal Highnefs, ftand fuffici ently Recommended in the Records of Fame. The chief of these are,

I Runaway Love. A Tranflation from Taffo. In this piece Venus having loft Cupid, offers this Reward for his Apprehenfion.

And he that finds the Boy fhall have
The fwecteft Kifs I ever gave;
But he that brings him to my Arms
Shall Mafter be of all my Charms.-----

II. An Eclogue, in return to a Tale fent by a Friend. This is an Excellent piece.

III. Mafque of the Virtues against Love. From

Guarini.

IV. Human Frailty.

V. On Providence.

VI. The Timerous Lover.
VII. A Tranflation of part

Second Act of Paftor-Fido.
VIII. A Paftoral Dialogue.

From Guarini.

of the Fifth Scène of the

From the Spanish.

IX. On a Lady's Statue in Marble.
X. Sonetto. From Guarini.

XI. Canzone. From Petrarch.

XII. An Epistle to Marinda. This Poem begins thus,

A juft Applaufe, and an Immortal Name
Is the true Object of the Poet's aim;
In quest of this they boldly quit the Shore,
And Dangerous Seas and unknown Lands explore.
In the whole plan their Intereft has no fhare,
The Goods of Fortune are beneath their Care,

They

They or the fmoke of Publick Incenfe live,
Look down on Wealth, and think it mean to thrive,

XIII. To Marinda. A Puerperium.

XIV. Canzone of Monfignior Della Cafa.

XV. A Dialogue between Lucinda and Strephon, on a Butter-Fly that revived before the Fire, and afterwards flew into it and was burnt.

XVI. An Ode on the late Queen's Birth-Day.
XVII. On fight of the prefent Empress of Ger-

many.

XVIII. Madrigals in Imitation of the Italian. XIX. A Tranflation from Taflo. Gierufalemme Liberata.

XX. Upon Orpheus and Euridice. From the Spanish.

XXI. MOCOLI. A Poem, Addressed to Color nel Richard Molefworth, at the Camp at Pratz del Rey, in Catalonia. Anno 1711.

This Lady likewife writ feveral Excellent Epigrams. One whereof to Cloe.

Cloe her Goffips entertains

With Stories of her Child-Bed pains,
And fiercely against Hymen rails;
But Hymen's not fo much to blame:
She knows, unless her Mem'ry fails,
E'er fhe was Wed, 'twas much the fame.

And the following Epitaph on a Gallant Lady, was written by her.

O'er this Marble drop a Tear,

Here lies fair Rofalinde,

All Mankind was pleafed with her,

And fhe with all Mankind....

Thefe Poems were published after her Death

The

The Right Honourable CHARLES MONTAGUE, Earl of Halifax.

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HIS Great Nobleman was fourth Son to the Honourable George Montague, Efq; of Horton in the County of Northampton, whofe Father was Henry the First Earl of Manchefter. He was born in the Year 1661. and fcarce five Years of Age before he fhewed fuch tokens of a pregnant Genius, that he was the Admiration of all that came near him. After he had gone through the First Rudiments of Learning, he was fent to Westminster School, and Elected King's Scholar there with great Applaufe. From thence he removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, but fooner than otherways it would have happened to Accompany his Friend Mr. George Stepney. Here by the Care of his Kinfman Dr. John Montague (now Dean of Durham) and a very polite Tutor, he was early taken notice of for his great progrefs in his Exercises, and Knowledge of all Claffical Authors; and while he outfhined his Contemporaries in Logick and Ethicks, he gave the greatest Proofs of his Advances in the Art of Poetry and Oratory. Upon the Death of King Charles the Second, the Heads of Colleges, Fellows, Scholars, &c. writ Copies of Verfes, according to the Ancient Custom, as a Condolence and Congratulation to King James the Second his Succeffor; and herein Mr. Montague had an opportunity of Difplaying his great Genius, which he did fo fuccefsfully, that he was Diftinguished by an Invitation to Town, from the late Earl of Dorfet and Afiddlesex. Accordingly he came to London,

and