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drawings of the heart being annexed, for the better illuftration cf the subject.

Art. 54. The Cafe of a Man whofe Heart was found enlarged to a very uncommon Size. By Mr. Richard Pulteney.

In this very extraordinary cafe, we are told, the whole heart might be faid to be entirely aneurifmatical. There was no particular enlargement of the aorta, nor were there the leaft polypofe concretions to be found in any part whatever. When cut off from the veffels, emptied of the coagula, and washed as clean as poffible, this diftended heart weighed upwards of twenty-eight ounces Avoirdupoife.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS..

Art. 25. An Extract of the Regifter of the Parish of Holy-cross in Salop, from Michaelmas 1750, to Michaelmas 1760. Communicated by Robert More, Efq; F. R. S.

The honourable place which the Committee have allotted this extract, will doubtlefs excite the emulation of all the Parish Clerks in the three kingdoms, to tranfmit their Memoirs of births, deaths, and marriages, to the Royal Society; in return for which, they will alfo, doubtlefs, be honoured by an election into that learned body.

Art. 29. A Defcription of a new Thermometer and Barometer. By Keane Fitzgerald, Efq;

The Thermometer here defcribed is compofed of small metal bars, which, by their expansion and contraction, determine the heat and cold of the air. To this inftrument are alfo adjusted indexes, or registers, to mark the least variation that may happen during the absence of the Obferver: an useful and ingenious contrivance. The Barometer is an improved wheel Barometer, to which the fame kind of registers are adapted. A draught of the principal parts of the machine is annexed.

Art. 53. An Account of a Treatife in French, prefented to the Royal Society, entitled, Lettres fur l' Electricité. By the Abbé Nollet. By Dr. Watson.

The principal defign of the Letters here treated of, is to Support and confirm the hypothefis espoused by the Abbé Nollet and others, viz. That the effects of Electricity depend upon

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the Amultaneous affluence and effluence of the electric matter; a doctrine, fays Dr. Watson, very well fupported by that ingenious Author.

Art. 55. An Account of feveral Experiments in Electricity. By Edward Delaval, Efq;

Thefe experiments relate to the change of bodies, by heat and cold, from non-electrics into electrics, and vice versa, exhibiting fome very uncommon phenomena of the inlandcryftal, in this refpect,

Art. 57. Remarks on a Passage of the Editor of the Connoiffance des Mouvements celeftes pour l'année, 1762. By Matthew Raper, Efq;

Mr. Raper detects and expofes here, the impertinence of the Frech Editor above-mentioned, who took upon him to charge Sir Ifaac Newton with being ignorant, in the year 1666, of Norwood's admeasurement of a degree, taken thiry years before; and thence infinuating, that no fuch admeafurement had been then made.

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Art. 58. An Extract of a Letter of Monfieur de la Landes of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, to Dr. Bevis.

In this paper M. de la Lande endeavours to excufe himself for what he had afferted relating to-Norwood's measure of a degree, as mentioned in the preceding article.

An Hymn to Repentance. By Mr. Scott, Fellow of Trinity College, Combridge. 4to. 1's. Beecroft, Dodfley, &c.

HETHER the Mufes are offended by the' poetical Simony of felling their gifts for money, or whatever may be the caufe, we have obferved, that those who have written profeffedly for a Prize, have frequently failed after the first or fecond attempt. This is the third poem of Mr. Scott's for which Seaton's reward has been affigned him; but it is inferior to either of the former. The Author, whofe judgment feems unequal to his imagination, has oft mistaken an affected boldnefs for beauty, and an uncouth novelty for elegance. His expreffions are frequently trite, and more frequently borrowed; and, fometimes, by aiming at plainnefs,

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he has funk below the dignity of that fpecies of poetry in which he writes.

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In his addrefs to Repentance, all the attributes he gives her, are borrowed from the facred writings, and from poetical defcriptions of Melancholy. There is nothing peculiarly characteristic, nothing that fhews the art or invention of the

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Come Goddess of the tearful eye,
With folemn ftep, demure, and flow,
Thy full heart heaving many a figh,
And clouds of fadnefs on thy brow;

O come with ashes fprent in fackcloth dreft,

And wring thy piteous hands, and beat thy plaintive breast. After this follows a description of the effect of Repentance on Mary Magdalene; which would have been pretty enough, had not the Author injudicioufly introduced fome fcriptural fimiles and expreffions that are but ill adapted to the genius of the modern Lyre, whatever elegance or beauty they might have in the eastern poetry. The addrefs to Repentance is then continued; for furely Mr. Scott, whom we take to be a Clergyman of the church of England, could not be praying to the Saint when he thus expreffed himself,

Come, then, my Magdalene, thy aid impart,
O'er all my foul thy balm diffufe,
And foften with the fleecy dews

Of penitential tears my stubborn heart.
Teach me to fearch with honest skill
The wounds that wrankle in my breast,
To curb my lufts, correct my will,

And chufe, and cleave to what is best;
Teach me to urge with never-ceafing care,

The holy force of vows, and violence of prayer.

In the two fucceeding ftanzas the Poet, with good fenfe and propriety, deprecates that horrid train which accompanies Repentance, under the influence of Superftition.

Grim Penance with an iron chain,

Wont his gall'd legs at ftated hours to bind :
A bare-foot Monk the fiend appears,
With fcourge in hand, and beads, and book,
His cheeks are furrow-worn with tears,

Sunk are his eyes, and lean his look:

O wretched fools! beguiling and beguil'd!

Can God be pleas'd to fee his image thus defil d?

Poffibly the poetica licentia may be here too far indulged,

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when the corporeal image of man is fuppofed to bear any refemblance to the ineffable exiftence of the Deity. Some praife, however, is due both to this and the following stanza, (notwithstanding the aukward and unpolifhed manner in which it begins) for the juft and animated imagery it con

tains.

Drive too away that wild distracted sprite
Enthufiafm, and that foul fiend

Remorse, that loves his heart to rend,
And fling himself to death with fcorpion spite:
But chief that tyrant of the foul,
That curfed man of hell, Defpair;
See, fee his livid eye-balls roll!

What canker'd teeth! what grifly hair!
Anguifh and trembling fear his confcience quail,

And all hell's damned ghofts the fhrieking wretch affail!

The death of a wicked man, who has unfortunately deferred his Repentance to the laft hour, is defcribed in no lefs itriking colours, though, undoubtedly, much over-heightened. The Poet then renews his addrefs to Repentance.

O come betimes, fweet penitential power,
And from fuch foul diftracting care,

Such chilling horrours of Despair,

Preferve me, fhield me at Death's trying hour!

In the remaining part of this ftanza, the Author avows his integrity, and tells us, that he is neither a Murderer nor a Seducer of Innocence; neither a Lyar; nor a Whifperer; nor a Backbiter; for all which we would readily have given him credit.

Having thus affured us of his negative virtues, he proceeds, in the next stanza, to make us acquainted with his real merit ; and tells us, that he purfues the path of Truth and Virtue; that he is reasonable, continent, and no voluptuary; and, finally, that he is very compaffionate: to all which we have no objection.

Before we quit this article we must do an act of justice between Mr. Scott and thofe Gentlemen from whom he has fo liberally borrowed, without either quotation-Commas, or any other kind of acknowlegement. To take fome notice of fuch things in a Literary Journal, can be no way improper, or unufeful, as future ages might not otherwife know where to afcribe the Originality of verses that are found in different cotemporary poems; and it may be likewife neceffary on our

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own account, as the Author might otherwise complain of our accufing him as a Plagiary, without proofs to fupport the charge.

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To urge with never-ceafing care.

SCOTT.
LANGHORNE.

SCOTT.

GRAINGER.

The force of holy vows, the violence of Prayer. SCOTT.

To urge with ftill-returning care,

The holy violence of prayer.

Such terrific forms as thefe.
Such terrific charms as thefe.

I ne'er betray'd a virgin's easy faith.
No virgin's easy faith I e'er betray'd.
Or prone beneath the myrtle shade.
When prone beneath an ofier fhade.

Many a gem of purer ray.

Many a gem of pureit ray.

Infpiration breathes around.
Inspiration breath'd around.

Her far fore-feeing tube applies.
Thy far fore feeing tube apply.

LANGHORNE.

SCOTT.

MASON.

SCOTT.
HAMMOND.

SCOTT

LANGHORNE.

SCOTT.

GRAY.

SCOTT.

GRAY.

SCOTT.

LANGHORNE.

After all, in favour of Mr. Scott, we agree with Strada, who, in his Prolufions, obferves, that it is difficult to diftinguifh between the treafures of the memory, and the productions of the invention; but this circumfiance ought to put Poets upon their guard, who are, of all Writers, the moft liable to be detected in borrowing, as their works are the most eafily remembered.

The Palladium of Great Britain and Ireland. Or, Hiftorical Strictures of Liberty, from before the Reformation, down to to the prefent Times. Which prove, to whom, and to what, it has chiefly owed its Origin and Prefervation in thefe Iflands. 8vo. 2s. 6d. bound. Henderfon and Becket.

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