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Imitations ofCowley . —Caleb Fleming , § c S 93
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? wv i Alexandria a Cyrillo Patriarchs in Angliam transmissum fquem Theclce vocantj edere ccepit eruditissimus Patricius Juitius . " It is well known that the Alexandrian M . S , upon being brought into England , A . D . 1628 , was placed in the King ' s Library , of which Patrick Young had the care ; that he communicated readings from it to Usher ,
Grotius , and others ; that he published the text of Job from that M . S . at the end of a Catena on Job ; and that he long meditated a complete copy of it , but , by various untoward circumstances , was prevented from proceeding further than a short specimen of his proposed edition , consisting of the first chapter of Genesis . But I will not intrude further upon your valuable pages , which may be much more
usefully occupied . Ignotus , and others , who may wish to see more upon this subject , will have recourse to Dr . T . Smith ' s interesting Life of Young , in his " Vitae quorundam Eruditiss , et illustr . Virorum . " And , as for the conjecture which I have advanced , 1 will only add , in the often cited words of the poet—Si quid novisti rectius istis , Candidas impeiti 5 si don , his utere mecum . PAMPHILUS . —m ^^ m ^ mm—— " ^—
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At p . 15 , On Friendship in Absence , the 6 th stanza begins thus : — Friendship is less apparent when too nigh , Like objects , if they touch the eye .
Dr . Young has applied the same allusion to a very serious purpose , where he says ' ' like objects pressing on the sig-ht , Death has advanc e d too near us to be seen . In the Z > avideis 9 Book L , it is said of
heaven—On no smooth sphere the restless seasons slide , No circling * motion doth swift time divide 5 Nothing * is there to come and nothing' past , But an eternal now does ever last . Watts , on God ' s Eternity % Book II . FL 17 , says—While like a tide our minutes flow , The present and the past , He tills his own immortal Noiv And sees our ag * es waste .
Those who have read Watts ' s Elegy on Gunston , may perceive that he was not unacquainted with Cow ley ' s Ode on the Death of Mr . William Harvey . Lyttelton was , also probably indebted to that Ode for some turns of expression in his Monody . In the Davideis , Book III ., it -is said of the young Son of Jesse—Bless me ! hew swift and growing was his wit ,
The wing's of time flagg ed dully after it . I know not whether Johnson might think of the last line , when he said of Shakspeare , that panting * time toil'd after him in vain . I omit a few instances already noticed by Bishop Hurd , in his Cowleyy and Mr . Wakefieldon Pope and Gray . OTIOSUS .
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Sir , July \ Q > th t 1817 . fTTlHE admirable letter of Mr . Fox JL to the Old Unitarian , [ p . 333 , 3 has noticed most of his remarks > but has not paid such an attention to one of them as it seems to merit . TheOld Unitarian
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^ Sir , June 6 thf 1817 . IF your Correspondent , Mr . Holdea , ( p . 291 , ) takes the trouble to consult the General Biography , he may find that the Life of Dr . Caleb Fleming * has not been wholly withheld from the public . T . M .
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Sir * Feb . 3 , 1817 . 1 LATELY found a paper written more than twenty years ago , when on reading the poetical works of Cowley , I was occasionally reminded of some passages in more modern poets . 1 will offer a few instances to tho 3 e of your readers who pursue such harmless amusements . My edition of Cowlev is the 12 th , 1721 .
At p . 7 , On the I > eath of Sir Henrifc Wotton , is the following" couplet : — Justly each nation ^ s speech to him was known , Who for the world was made , not us alone . Pope may have thought of the first line , when he said of Roscommou , To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known .
And Goldsmith of the second , when he described Burke , in his Retaliation , as one Who born for the universe narrowed his mind , And to party gave up what was meant for mankind .
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VOL . XII . 3 E
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/17/
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