my good friend," replied the other, "did you ever try him?"

The Geometrician Defended.

A superficial censure passed on a man of science may be easily repelled by plain sense. A Geometrician having read a long poem, asked somewhat tartly, · What does all this prove?" Now doubtless a poem that does not inculcate some moral, political, or religious truth, must be reckoned among the nugæ canoræ, or tuneful trifles, of a mind laboriously idle. A good poem should endeavour at least to instruct, by amusing. Every reader will assent to the praises of the Muse of Twickenham, displayed in the following lines--

"Best of philosophers, of poets too

The best; he teaches thee thyself to know,
That virtue is the noblest gift of heaven,
And vindicates the ways of God to man.
hearken to the moralist divine,

Enter his school of truth, where Plato's self

Might preach, and Tally deign to lend an ear." Character of Mr. Pope's writings, taken from a Poem called Sickness.-Dodsley's Poems, vol. iii. p. 337.

False Ornaments in Gardening.

It may now be hoped that in the plans of laying out grounds in imitation of nature frivolous ornaments will be removed. Jets d'eau, who exhibit themselves only to company, will be no more

seen. A man of exquisite taste in poetry, and all the liberal arts, has nobly spoken on this subject

"Rich in her weeping country's spoils, Versailles
May boast a thousand fountains, that can cast
The tortured waters to the distant heavens.
Yet let me chuse some pine-topp'd precipice,
Abrupt and shaggy, whence a foamy stream,
Like Anio, rumbling roars, &c."

Enthusiast, or the Lover of Nature, by Joseph Warton.

Sentimentalists.

These persons resemble, in their moral pretensions, those who are called Methodists, in their religious ones. General principles of right and wrong they both disdain, and place their motives on the suggestion of a spirit and feeling known only to themselves. When the sentimentalist holds out his private feelings, as the groundwork of his moral actions, and the religionist talks of an inward call, and a directing spirit, it is high time to inspect their conduct with a suspicious eye. Occult qualities are no longer creditable in science; and secret pretensions to extra virtue and latent piety should have as little credit with

the wise.

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