Such is the clan of boift'rous Bears,
Always together by the ears;
Shrewd fellows and arch wags, a tribe
That meet for nothing but to gibe;
Who first run one another down,
And then fall foul on all the town;
Skill'd in the horse-laugh and dry rub,
And call'd by excellence The Club.
I mean your Butler, Dawson, Car,
All special friends, and always jar.

The mettled and the vicious steed
Differ as little in their breed;
Nay, Voiture is as like Tom Lee
As rudeness is to repartee.

If what you faid, I wish unfpoke,
'Twill not fuffice, it was a joke:
Reproach not, though in jeft, a friend
For those defects he cannot mend;
His lineage, calling, fhape, or fenfe,
If nam'd with feorn, gives just offence.

What ufe in life to make men fret,
Part in worse humour than they met ?
Thus all fociety is loft,

Men laugh at one another's coft;
And half the company is teaz'd,
That came together to be pleas':
For, all buffoons have moft in view
To please themselves by vexing you.
You wonder now to see me write
So gravely on a fubje&t light;
Some part of what I here defign
Regards a friend of yours and mine;
Who, neither void of fenfe nor wit,
Yet feldom judges what is fit,
But fallies oft beyond his bounds,
And takes unmeasurable rounds.

When jefts are carried on too far,
And the loud laugh begins the war,
You keep your countenance for fhame,
Yet ftill you think your friend to blame.
For, though men cry they love a jest,
'Tis but when others ftand the test:

And, would you have their meaning known?
They love a jeft that is their own.

About half a dozen other pieces, of various merit, follow next; turning over which, we come to DAPHNE ; a satire on some female character: a character which (begging pardon of the lovely

He means Mr. Sheridan.

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fex

Sex) may be pretty generally applied; for which reafon we fhall
Lay it before our Readers:

DAPHNE knows, with equal eafe,
How to vex and how to please;
But, the folly of her fex
Makes her fole delight to vex.
Never woman more devis'd
Surer ways to be defpis'd:
Paradoxes weakly wielding,
Always conquer'd, never yielding.
To difpute, her chicf delight,
With not one opinion right:
Thick her arguments the lays on,
And with cavils combats reafon :
Anfwers in decifive way,
Never hears what you can fay:
Still her odd perverfenefs fhows
Chiefly where the nothing knows.
And where the is most familiar,
Always peevisher and fillier :
All her fpirits in a flame

When she knows fhe's moft to blame.

Send me hence ten thousand miles,

From a face that always fmiles :
None could ever act that part,
But a Fury in her heart.

Ye who hate fach inconsistence,
To be eafy keep your diftance;
Or in folly fill befriend her,
But have no concern to mend her.
Lofe not time to contradict her,
Nor endeavour to convict her.
Never take it in your thought,
That he'll own, or cure a fault.

Into contradiction warm her,

Then, perhaps, you may reform her:

Only take this rule along,

Always to advife her wrong;

And reprove her when he's right;

She may then grow wife for fpight.

No-that fcheme will ne'er fucceed,

She has better learnt her creed:
She's too cunning, and too fkilful,
When to yield, and when be wilful.
Nature holds her forth two mirrors,

One for truth, and one for errors:

'Fhat looks hideous, fierce, and frightful;
This is flatt'ring, and delightful:
That the throws away as foul;
Sits by this, to dress her foul,

Thus you have the cafe in view,
Daphne, 'twixt the Dean and you ;
Heav'n forbid he should defpife thee;
But will never more advife thee.

From Daphne, we turn to the remainder of the poetical pieces, confifting of about thirty articles; fome of which are printed as Dr. Delany's; others as Dr. Sheridan's; but most of them are given us as the Dean's; and that they are the ge nuine productions of his pen, there is no room to doubt.

The remainder of the volume confifts of fmall pieces in profe; fome of which are quibbling letters, and fcraps of conundrum wit, the reproach of Swift's memory, and the difgrace of this otherwise valuable collection of the remains of that great, that univerfally admired genius, whofe name will reflect immortal honour on his country.

MONTHLY CATALOGUE, For OCTOBER, 1765.

RELIGIOUS and CONTROVERSIAL.

Art. 10. The Grace of God in Chrift to all Men fcripturally vindcated: In a free and fober Examination of Mr. Michael Bligh's Difcourfe on Deuteronomy xxxii. 9. delivered at Sevenoaks, in Kent, Oct. 14, 1764. By Thomas Harrison. 8vo. I S.

Gardner.

N this examination of Mr. Bligh's Sermon, Mr. Harrison undertakes

the baptift churches, than, perhaps, is elsewhere to be met with; and which may tend to the fatisfaction of ferious enquirers into the points difcuffed." He affures us, that it was not the love of controverfy, or a conceit of his own ability, which engaged him in this difpute; but, adds he, the discourse referred to being delivered in the neighbour hood of those I ferve in the gofpel; and Divine Providence, by vifiting me with bodily incapacity for other service and employment, which might have taken up my time, having given me leiture and opportunity; and at the fame time graciously continued the ufe of the faculties of my mind, I have been moved to the following publication with thefe views: to give a check to what I count erroneous, left, no notice being taken thereof, error might feem to triumph over truth and to establish my own people, and others alfo of the fame fentiments, with whom I have fome connection, to whofe hands that difcourfe may have come.'--We fhall only add, that our Author does really difcufs the points that fall under his examination, with Sobriety and decency of manner; but his tract will appear extremely verbofe and tedious to thofe readers who do not love to defcend into the profundity of fuch controverfies. He appears indeed, hímfelf,

to be fully fenfible of his prolixity; and he apologizes for it, from his regard to common capacities, who, he rightly judges, will always be the majority. Men in common, he fays, do not fo eafily take in the fenfe and force of an argument contained in few words; they mut, as Calvin fomewhere fays, have their cars beat with the do&trine!

Art. 11. A Letter to Mr. Phillips, containing fome Obfervations on bis Hiflory of the Life of Reginald Pole. By Richard Tillard, M. A. 8vo. Is. Horsfield.

Mr. Tillard has here given the public a number of very judicious criticisms, on various paffages in Mr. Phillips's Life of Cardinal Pole; and fully refuted many of that writer's arguments and reprefentations in favour of popery.

Art. 12. The Doctrine of Predeftination unto Life explained and vindicated. In four Sermons, preached at Bofton in New England. By William Cooper. 12mo. rs. 6d. Dilly.

Although the doctrine of predeftination has never yet been explained and vindicated to our fatisfaction, yet this doctrine has its advocates; and to those who are difpofed to lend a favourable ear to whatever can be advanced in its defence, Mr. Cooper's difcourfes will, perhaps, appear to be masterly performances.

POLITICAL.

Art. 13. The Political Apology; or, Candid Reafons for not taking Part with the prefent Public System. In a Letter from a MAN who never had a Place, to a Right Hon. GENTLEMAN who has lately accepted of an High Office. 8vo. Is. Wilkie.

These candid reafons are near akin to thofe given by the Honeft Man (fee Rev. for July, p. 76.) for declining to take any part in the new administration; and there is fuch a fimilitude in the temper in which the Authors argue, fuch a conformity in the principles on which they ground their feceffion, and fuch a famenefs in the style of both thefe tracts, that we are not a little inclined to conclude them both to be the production of the fame pen. Be this, however, as it may, the fubftance of the two pieces being fo very fimilar, and we having given fo large an abftract of the first of them, it seems unneceffary for us to enter particularly into the contents of the prefent performance. Art. 14. A Vindication of the Whigs, against the Clamours of a Tory Mob; with an Addrefs to the City. 8vo. I S. Moran. What this ranting Writer calls a Vindication of the Whigs, is nothing but a wild, Hurlothrumbo invective against all who in any meafure concur in oppofition to, or exprefs any diflike of the prefent adminiftration. His addrefs to the city contains the groffeft abuse of the Londoners, on account of their late addrefs to the throne. Part of what he fays, in his raving against the citizens, may ferve as a specimen of

his temper and language. Blush mayor and aldermen We afk no blushes from the common common-council

commons have no fhame, no fenfe, no feelings :-they are a factious mob, at war with reafon and understanding; they are the train, bands of fedition, the jobbers of riot, the bulls and bears of dulnefs, -and honesty with them has long been under par. But fince, mayor, aldermen, and commons, ye have no gratitude, no fenfe, no reafon, nor no feeling.What can be expected from fuch an inanimate body,-bodies without fouls! Alas! &c. &c. &c,'

This feems, from fimilitude of manner, to be the fame angry maftiff that fo furiously baited the bulls and bears of the city, in the Fable hereafter mentioned in our poetic articles. See p. 324.

MEDICA L.

Art. 15. The Commentaries upon the Aphorifms of Dr. Herman, Boerhaave, the late Profeffor of Phyfick in the University of Leyden, concerning the Knowledge and Cure of the feveral Difeafes incident to Human Bodies. By Gerard Van Swieten, M. D. Tranflated into English *. 3 Vols. Svo. 18s. Horf

field, &c.

The character of our learned and useful Commentator, Baron Van Swieten, is fo well established, and fo univerfally known, that we Thall difcharge our duty to the public with refpect to the prefent work, by giving only a fhort account of the translation.

These three volumes are a tranflation of the fourth volume of the Latin original, which was published in quarto about a year ago, and contained our Author's commentaries on the following difeafes; Pthifis pulmonalis:-Pthifes alia :-Hydrops :-Podagra:-Morbi virginum:-Morbi gravidarum ;-Partus difficilis :-Morbi puerperii: Morbi infantum.- -Few perfons, we apprehend, will read the tranflation, who are fo far acquainted with the Latin as to understand the eafy and correct language of the original.---We must advertise, however, thofe Readers, whofe fate it is to take up with the tranflation, that great liberties have been taken in dividing not only fentences and periods, but even whole paragraphs, in a different manner from what they are in the original; and that the tranflation is far from being always clofe, accurate and correct.Impro prieties fuch as the following frequently occur:- but no patients as had fuch an inflammation that they grew feverish, were ever cured.' lefs danger is to be apprehended for evacuating the whole fluid.'Sanguinem exfpuit, is tranflated, he threw up blood;' now blood, we believe, is generally thrown up by vomiting; and fereatu educere fanguinolentum putum, to hawk up bloody fpitule, is tranflated, to fpit up bloody fpittle.'-Verum quidem eft, quod olim quidam medici crediderint, naturaliter copiam humoris aliquam pericardii cavo contineri, ut calidiffimum cor perpetuo hume&taretur; Jed hodie illa lites compofitæ funt, cum tantum poft mortem frigefado cadavere liquidum hic inveniatur; in vivis animalibus fubito dilectis

Being Vols. 12, 13, and 14, of the English translation.