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their intellectual habits and treasures so effectual to the purposes of instruction and rational delight . (•) The subject of Lowth's introductory Lecture on Hebrew Poetry , is " De Poeticae fine et utiiitate . " To this , in particular , Hayley now alludes * and it claims , and will reward , a diligent perusal by the youthful student . In this lecture the mutual connexion of Poetry and Public Freedom is strongly and admirably described- The whole volume , like Sir Joshua Reynolds '
" Discourses on Painting' / ' is a work of general literature j containing principles of taste and art , which , not restricted to the writer ' s immediate subject are of universal application . Let me add , that the valuable translation , by the late Dr . George Gregory , of Bishop Lowth ' s Lectures , is calculated to give the English reader a fami ! liar acquaintance with them , and should be put into the hands of every well , educated young person .
C ) There appeared , in 1766 , "A Letter to the Right Reverend Author of the Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated ; in Answer to the Appendix to the Fifth Volume of that Work . With an Appendix , containing a former Literary Correspondence . By a late Professor in the University of Oxford . " It is a pamphlet that will always be read with interest for its masterly style , talent , and address . Doubts may perhaps be fairly entertained , whether the position for which Dr . Lowth contends is correct . It may still be made a question , whether idolatry was capitally punished in the patriarchal families and age . There can he no just doubt , however , that Lowth had reason to complain of the treatment which he received from " the proud Goliah , " and that he ministered a severe and merited correction to his antagonist . This is among the most powerful of controversial tracts :
cokecx , € eXv ) EvSov cvti < £ apcTpa $ * The shafts are the keener , because they are bright and polished . ( u ) Augustus Keppel , second son of William Earl of Albemarle , was an English Admiral . In 1 77 % he commanded the channel fleet , and fell in with that of the French , off Ushant . For supposed misconduct in regard to the partial action which ensued , he was tried by a court martial , but honourably acquitted . In J 784 , he was raised to the Peerage . A large portion of party-spirit accompanied and followed his trial . Certainly , he was far more popular than Sir Hugh Palliser , his accuser . A tender and affecting notice of Lord Keppel—of his character , vicissitudes , . and connexions—may be seen towards the end of Burke ' s Letter concerning the Duke of Bedford .
* 1 . lyO . What this " personal attack" was , how unjust and unhappy , will appear frpm some quotations , which it will be more desirable to copy at the end of the present series of notes . C ) la a Fast Sermon , [ 1779 , ] preached by Dr . Porteus , then Bishop of Chester , before the House of Lords , it is asked , " Are the obligations of the nuptial vow more faithfully observed , and fewer applications made to the legislature for the dissolution of that sacred bond V * To the same effect , and
descriptive of the state of morals at the same period , are some indignant lines in Cowper ' s Task , B . iii . 61 , &c . ( ' ) The full title of this work is , " A View of Society in Europe , in its Progress from Rudeness to Refinement : or , Inquiries concerning the History of Law , Government , and Manners . B y Gilbert Stuart , LL . D . " At the end of the Advertisement is the date , Edinburgh , January , 177 & » There was a reprint of the volume in 1813 . 2
() No reader of Bishop Lowth ' s Memoirs can mistake this allusion : his epitaph on his daughter Maria , [ Mon . Rep . Vol . XVI . 337 , &c ., ] must be classed among the finest effusions of parental sorrow and poetic genius . I am tempted to place before my readers another beautiful Latin epitaph , by a very accomplished man , [ the late Lord Hailes , ] suffering under aggravated
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626 Hayley ' 8 Elegy on the Ancient Greek Model .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/26/
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