The bard, with many an artful fib, And all that Groom could urge against him. But soon his rhetoric forsook him, He stood as mute as poor Macleane. Yet something he was heard to mutter, "He once or twice had penn'd a sonnet; Var. V. 116. Might. Ms. 115 120 125 V. 115. Squib] Groom of the chamber. G. James Squibb was the son of Dr. Arthur Squibb, the descendant of an ancient and respectable family, whose pedigree is traced in the herald's visitations of Dorsetshire, to John Squibb of Whitchurch in that county, in the 17th Edw. IV. 1477. Dr. Squibb matriculated at Oxford in 1656, took his degree of M.A. in November, 1662; was chaplain to Colonel Bellasis's regiment about 1685, and died in 1697. As he was in distressed circumstances towards the end of his life, his son, James Squibb, was left almost destitute, and was consequently apprenticed to an upholder in 1712. In that situation he attracted the notice of Lord Cobham, in whose service he con The ghostly prudes with hagged face She smil'd, and bid him come to dinner. "Jesu-Maria! Madam Bridget, Why, what can the Viscountess mean?" (Cried the square-hoods in woful fidget) "The times are alter'd quite and clean! "Decorum's turn'd to mere civility; Her air and all her manners show it. [Here five hundred stanzas are lost.] And so God save our noble king, And guard us from long-winded lubbers, That to eternity would sing, And keep my lady from her rubbers. 130 135 140 tinued for many years, and died at Stowe, in June, 1762. His son, James Squibb, who settled in Saville Row, London, was grandfather of George James Squibb, Esq. of Orchard Street, Portman Square, who is the present representative of this branch of the family. Nicolas. V. 116. Groom] The steward. G. V. 120. Macleane] A famous highwayman hanged the week before. G. See a Sequel to the Long Story in Hakewill's History of Windsor, by John Penn, Esq. and a farther Sequel to that, by the late Laureate, H. J. Pye, Esq. POSTHUMOUS POEMS AND FRAGMENTS. ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE. Left unfinished by Gray. With additions by Mason, distinguished by inverted commas. (I have read something that Mason has done in finishing a half-written ode of Gray. I find he will never get the better of that glare of colouring, that dazzling blaze of song,' an expression of his own, and ridiculous enough, which disfigures half his writings. V. Langhorne's Lett. to H. More, i. 23.) See Musæ Etonenses, ii. p. 176. Now the golden morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, V. 1. Sophocl. Antig. v. 103, xpvoćas àμépas Bλépapov; and Dyer. Fleece, lib. iii. "Grey dawn appears, the golden morn ascends." Luke. V. 3. "Vermeil cheek," see Milton. Comus, v. 749. Luke. V. 4. "Rorifera mulcens aura, Zephyrus vernas evocat herbas." Senec. Hipp. i. 11. Luke. V. 8. "Half rob'd appears the hawthorn hedge, Or to the distant eye displays Weakly green its budding sprays." Warton. First of April, i. 180. See Mant's note on the passage. Add Buchan. Psalm xxiii. Quæ Veris teneri pingit amoenitas." p. 36. V. 9. "Hinc nova proles, Artubus infirmis teneras lasciva per herbas With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She wooes the tardy spring: New-born flocks, in rustic dance, The birds his presence greet: And, lessening from the dazzled sight, Rise, my soul! on wings of fire, 5 10 15 "O'er the broad downs a novel race, T. Warton, i. 185. V. 17. Mason informs us, that he has heard Gray say, that Gresset's "Epitre à ma Soeur" gave him the first idea of this ode; and whoever, he says, compares it with the French poem, will find some slight traits of resemblance, but chiefly in the author's seventh stanza. The following lines seem to have been in Gray's remembrance at this place: "Mon âme, trop long tems flétrie Va de nouveau s'épanouir; Et loin de toute rêverie Voltiger avec le Zéphire, Occupé tout entier du soin du plaisir d'être," &c. Lucret. v. 282, "liquidi fons luminis." Milt. P. L. vii. 362, "drink the liquid light." Luke. I 122 Hark! 'tis nature strikes the lyre, 6 Warm let the lyric transport flow, Yesterday the sullen year Saw the snowy whirlwind fly; Smiles on past misfortune's brow Soft reflection's hand can trace; V. 25. Milt. Son. xx. 3. " Help waste a sullen day.” Luke. V. 31. "Sure he that made us with such large discourse Hamlet, act iv. sc. 4. "Imperat, ante videt, perpendit, præcavit, infit." Prudent. p. 374. ed. Delph. V. 41. "Where Pleasure's roses void of serpents grow." Thomson. C. of Ind. c. ii. st. lvii. Luke. V. 43. Dr. Warton refers to Pope. Essay on Man, ii. 270: "See some strange comfort every state attend, And pride bestow'd on all, a common friend: |