The following is a very just and well-adapted simile of Mr POPE:

Fir'd at first fight with what the mufe imparts,
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts,
While from the bounded level of the mind
Short views we take, nor fee the lengths behind;
But more advanc'd behold with ftrange furprise
New diftant fcenes of endless fcience rife!
So pleas'd at firft the tow'ring Alps we try,
Mount o'er the vales, and feem to tread the sky;
Th' eternal fnows appear already past,

And the first clouds and mountains feem the laft:
But, thofe attain'd, we tremble to furvey
The growing labours of the length'ned way;
Th' increafing profpect tires our wand'ring eyes;
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise *.

Lord LITTLETON, lamenting the death of his amiable Lady, says,

Not only good and kind,

But ftrong and elevated was her mind:

A fpirit that with noble pride
Could look fuperior down

On fortune's fmile or frown;
That could without regret or pain
To virtue's loweft duty facrifice
Or int'reft's or ambition's highest prize;
That injur'd or offended never try'd
Its dignity by vengeance to maintain,

But by magnanimous disdain,

A wit that temperately bright,
With inoffenfive light

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All pleafing fhone, nor ever past

The decent bounds, that wisdom's fober hand,
And sweet benevolence's mild command,
And bashful modefty, before it cast.
A prudence undeceiving, undeceiv'd,
That nor too little nor too much believ❜d,
That scorn'd unjust suspicion's coward fear,
And without weakness knew to be fincere,
Such Lucy was; when, in her fairest days,
Amidft th' acclaim of universal praise

In life's and glory's fresheft bloom,

Death came remorseless on, and funk her to the tomb.

Immediately follows a very apt and pleasing Comparison;

So where the filent ftreams of Liris glide

In the foft bofom of Campania's vale,
When now the wintry tempefts all are fled,

And genial fummer breathes its western gale,
The verdant orange lifts its beauteous head :

From ev'ry branch the balmy flow'rets rise,
On ev'ry bough the golden fruits are seen;
With odours sweet it fills the finiling skies,
The wood-nymphs tend it, and th' Idalian queen:
But in the midft of all its blooming pride,
A fudden blaft from Apenninus blows,

Cold with perpetual fnows;

The tender blighted plant fhrinks up its leaves, and dies t.

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To the fame Author alfo are afcribed the following verfes, making part of an epitaph on the fame lady; and, as they have not been inserted among the inftances of the Hypotypofis, the Reader may not be displeased if I give them now a place in our Work, as a fine example of that Figure.

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$7. A yaft variety of Paraboles may be collected from the facred Writings; but we fhall content ourselves with selecting comparatively only a few of them from the rich treafure the Scriptures afford ys.

The Prophet ISAIAH thus introduces the Affyrian Monarch infolently glorying in his fuccefses And my hand hath found as a neft the s riches of the people; and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth, and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped *ss

In like manner NAHUM, prophefying the destruction of Nineveh, fays, " All thy strong-holds

fhall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs; ss if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth ss of the eater +."

HUSHAI,

To the memory of a Lady lately deceafed. A Monody.

Made to engage all hearts, and charm all eyes;
Tho' meek, magnanimous; tho' witty, wife;
Polite, as all her life in courts had been ;
Yet good, as the the world had never seen;
The noble fire of an exalted mind,
With gentleft female tenderness combin'd.
Her fpeech was the melodious voice of love,
Her fong the warbling of the vernal grove;
Her eloquence was sweeter than her fong,
Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong;
Her form each beauty of the mind exprefs'd,
Her mind was virtue by the

graces drefs'd.

. HUSHAI, reprefenting to ABSALOM what his innumerable hoft would be able to perforin against DAVID his father, fays, that " they would $3 come upon him in fome place where he fhould # be found, and that they fhould light upon " him as the dew falls upon the ground *."

Our LORD reprefents himself in the day of judgment as feparating the assembled world that fhall ftand before him," as a fhepherd divides his fheep from the goats +."

None of these Comparisons may feem to have any thing of the Sublime in them; but in that very point in which they seem to be defective as to the Sublime, they may be found upon a clofe and careful examination to excel, when taken in their connexion. What can raife the idea of the power of a Monarch to an higher pitch, than to consider him as "finding as a neft the riches of "the people, and as gathering the earth as one "gathers eggs that are left?" With what ease and irresistible might does he make his conquests, and extend his abfolute and univerfal dominion over the nations? In like manner how utterly weak and impotent is that people, whofe ftrongholds furrender with as little trouble "as figs "are fhaken from the boughs upon which they hang?" And what a numerous army do we behold, and may I not add, what eafy victories do we fee them making, when they are faid to light as the dew falls upon the ground?" whose

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2 Sam. xvii. 12.

+ Matt. xxv. 32.

whose descent can by no means be prevented. As to our LORD's faying, that he shall separate all nations," as a fhepherd divides his fheep "from the goats," what can give a more striking idea of his majefty and power in the day of judgment than this Comparison? Though he has the NIMRODS, the NEBUCHADNEZZARS, the ALEXANDERS, and the CAESARS of our world before him; nay, though he has fuch an immenfe multitude, as all the inhabitants of the earth, in all nations and in all ages, without fo much as a fingle perfon wanting, yet he feparates them as a fhepherd divides his fheep from the goats, with "I can imagine," out any difficulty, any delay. fays that excellent expositor Dr DODDRIDGE, in a note upon the place," no more magnificent image than this; the afsembled world diftin

guished with fuch unerring penetration, and "distributed into two grand clafses, with as "much eafe as fheep and goats are ranged in different companies."

Allow me here to obferve, that we fometimes find an amazing dignity, an ineffable grandeur in a few fhort exprefsions of Scripture. Thus we may consider the account of Moses concerning the production of light: " And GoD faid, Let there be light, and there was light *.

LONGINUS takes notice of this passage, and fays, "So likewife the legislator of the Jews, "who was no common perfon, after he had conceived the power of God according to its

*Gen. i. 3.

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dignity,