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    These qualities belonged in no ordinary measure to the first , in point of time , of the modern Latin pdefs , whose names I have selected , to George Buchanan . " Thoughts which breathe and words which burn " -will be found in many of his poems * . The grandeur , in particular , of his Caletfda < Maice has been eloquently represented by Mr *

    Alison \ and is deserving of all the praise bestowed upon it by that accomplished Writer . From his Psalms , the only blemish in which is perhaps the introduction of purely classical images and allusions , a selection might be made with advantage for the Sunday reading of schools : and wit and elegance adorn many of his smaller-and lighter poems , which , however , are not uniformly free from sentiments that justly incur the censure of an age of more refinement than his own .

    Correctness and harmony of numbers ^ delkracy of expression , beauty and propriety of imagery distinguish the poems of Jurtin ^ which sometimes , as in his lines on a future stare , aspire to a yet higher character . The manner in which his own thoughts are

    interwoven with references to heathen mythology , is one of the circumstances by which his poetry may be discriminated from that of his contemporaries : and there are those of bis Lathi compositions in verse , which have an air so truly classical that a stranger might well assign them to a remote antiqiiity .

    What person at all conversant with the Latin poetry of our countrymen , is unacquainted with that of Vincent Bourne ? And who can read it without admiring its simplicity , elegance , purity and wit ? Nothing is more observable in this anthbr than the happiness with whiehy in his translations , he occasionally supplies the defects or heightens the beauties of his originals . In his descriptive and epigrammatic pieces he is seldom equalled and Never perhaps surpassed .

    Under this excellent scholar and amiable man Cowper , who has honoured his memory * , received part of his education : and in the very few Latin verses of the scholar with which the public has been favoured we perceive , if I mistake not , something of the manner of the master , the same ease of construction , delicacy of thought and simplicity of phrase . One of them I beg to lay before my readers , accompanied with a paraphrastic translation of it by a friend ,

    who with the qualifications requisite for active life unites that taste for elegant reading and composition which serves to relax the brow of care and to beguile the hoiirs of affliction . Competent judges will , 1 believe , agree that in his version of the poem to which 1 aU lade , as well as in the trifle which follows it , he has attained to a degree of success which should encourage him to multiply these attempts at relieving his own anxieties and gratifying some congenial mind . - ¦ N .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1811, page 545, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2420/page/33/