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domestic woes : an English translation of it would be not a little acceptable , I am persuaded , to the Editor and readers of this periodical work . V 3 di gemellos , et superbivi pareus , Fausti decus puerperi ; At mox sub uno flebills vidi parens , Condi gemellos cespite ! Te dulcis uxor ! Ut mihi sol occidit , Radiante desectus polo ! Obscura vitae nunc ego per avia , Solus ac dubius feror ?
The use of the word flehzhs , in the third of these Iambic lines , seems justifiable , on the authority of the flebilis elegia of Ovid , iii . Amor . El . ix . 3 , and the flebilis somu of Tacitus . Annal . I . § . 4 \ , ( att ) In the life of Solon , by Plutarch , many fragments of the poems of
that Legislator have been preserved , * most of them are of the serious , didactic class ; and his biographer says that one design of his thus clothing moral sentences in verse , was to reprove or to stimulate the Athenians , as the occasion demanded . His elegies may be seen in Winterton ' s edition of the Minor Greek Poets : and on this subject , Harle ' s Fabric . Biblioth , Graec , ed . 4 , Vol . II . 23 , &c , should be consulted .
( bb ) " It was the funeral oration on the Great Conde * that terminated Bossuet ' s oratorical career ; and he finished it with his master-piece ; in which it is to be regretted that he has not been imitated by several illustrious men , less prudent or less fortunate than he . Prince , ' said he , addressing himself to the deceased hero , with you shall end all these exertions of the preacher : instead of deploring the death of others , I will henceforth learn of you how
to sanctify my own ; happy if , warned by these grey hairs of the account I am to render of my ministry , I reserve for the flock committed to me to be fed with the word of life , the relicks of a failing voice , and of a dying ardour . "'—Select Eulogies , &c , by D'Alembert . Translated by Dr . Aiken , Vol . I . pp . 147 , 148 .
Supplemental Note , 1 . 170 , &c . Of the occasion of the foregoing poem the reader may be enabled to form a clearer judgment by means of an extract from Morgan ' s Memoirs of the Life of Dr . Price : " To his fast-day sermon , in the year 1779 , he was induced to add a postscript , in consequence of a violent attack from Dr . I # owth , Bishop of London , in a sermon , preached on the preceding Ask-Wednesday in the Chapel Royal , which he afterwards published and addressed to the clergy of his diocese .
Unfortunately for the bishop , he had maintained those very opinions in former times , which he now reprobated with so much vehemence ; and Dr . Price , as the best answer , quoted a few passages from what the learned prelate had written in Ms earlier years , and left him to the choice either of condemning his old principles , or attempting the more difficult task of reconciling them with his new ones /*—Pp . 69 , 70 .
I have before me Dr . Price ' s Fast Sermon of 1779 , and the Postscript . The sentences in Bishop Lowth's Discourse on which he offers his strictures are these , p . 17 : " And this weakness of the constitution do not the enemies of all order make a pretence , and use as an occasion to endeavour , instead of restoring , totally to subvert it ? Are there not many whose stud y it has long been to introduce confusion and disorder , to encourage tumults and seditions , to destroy all rule and authority , by traducing government , despising- dominion , and speaking evil of dignities ? By assuming visionary and impracticable
? Life of Lord Kames , by the late Lord Woodhouslee , Volr 1 . 183 .
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Hayletfs Elegy on the Ancient Greek Model . 62 J
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 627, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/27/
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