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vernment. But his old friends the

Mufes were not forgotten. In 1730 he fent into the world Imperium Pelagi; a Naval Lyric, written in Imitation of Pindar's Spirit, occafioned by His Majefy's Return from Hanover, September 1729, and the fucceeding Peace. It is infcribed to the Duke of Chandos. In the Preface we are told, that the Ode is the most fpirited kind of Poetry, and that the Pindaric is the moft fpirited kind of Ode. "This I fpeak," he adds, " at my own

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very great peril. But truth has an

"eternal title to our confeffion, though "we are fure to fuffer by it." Let it not be forgotten that this was one of his

pieces which the author of the Night Thoughts deliberately refused to own.

Not long after this Pindaric attempt, he published two Epiftles to Pope, concerning the Authors of the Age, 1730. Of thefe poems one occafion feems to have been an apprehenfion left, from the liveliness of his fatires, he fhould not be deemed fufficiently serious for promotion in the Church.

In July 1730 he was prefented by his College to the rectory of Welwyn in Hertfordshire. In April 1732 he married Lady Elizabeth Lee, daughter of the Earl of Litchfield, and widow of Colonel Lee. His connexion with this Lady arofe from his father's acquaintance, already mentioned, with Lady Ann Wharton,

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Wharton, who was coheirefs of Sir Henry Lee of Ditchley in Oxfordshire.

We may naturally conclude that he now gave himself up in fome measure to the comforts of his new connexion, and to the expectations of that preferment which he thought due to his poetical talents, or, at leaft, to the manner in which they had fo frequently been exerted

The next production of his Mufe was The Sea-piece, in two odes.

Young enjoys the credit of what is called an Extempore Epigram on Voltaire; who, when he was in England, ridiculed, in the company of the jealous English poet, Milton's allegory of Sin and Death

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You are fo witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Milton, Death, and Sin.

From a paffage in the poetical Dedication of his Sea-piece to Voltaire, it seems that his extemporaneous reproof (if it must be extemporaneous), for what few will now affirm Voltaire to have deferved any reproof, was fomething longer than a diftich, and fomething more gentle than this diftich.

No ftranger, Sir, though born in foreign climes.

On Dorfet downs, when Milton's page, With Sin and Death provok'd thy rage, Thy rage provok'd, who footh'd with

gentle rhymes?

By Dorfet downs he probably meant Mr. Dodington's feat. In Pitt's Poems is An Epistle to Dr. Edward Young, at Eaftbury in Dorfetfire, on the Review at Sarum, 1722.

While with your Dodington retir'd you

fit,

Charm'd with his flowing Burgundy and wit, &c.

In 1734 he published The foreign Addrefs, occafioned by the British Fleet and the Pofture of Affairs. Written in the Character of a Sailor. This Ode confifted of forty-five ftanzas. It is not to be found in the author's four volumes; and the editors of the prefent collection of Englifh poetry have, for once, followed the decifion of the author. Of all the pieces

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