Ye noble few! that here, unbending, stand THE END. Thomson issued Proposals in 1727 for printing by subscription The Four Seasons, with a Hymn on their succession, a poem sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton, and "An Essay on Descriptive Poetry.” The latter never seems to have appeared. Subscriptions were to be received by the author at the Smyrna coffee-house in Pall Mall: but few probably were offered; as an Advertisement was prefixed to Spring in 1728, which thus reported:-"That the following poem appears at present in public, is not any way in prejudice of the Proposals, I lately published for printing The FOUR SEASONS, &c. by Subscription; but at the solicitation of some of my friends who had seen it in manuscript, and the better to carry on a work I stand engaged to finish. For subscription is now at its last gasp, and the world seems to have got the better of that many-headed monster. However those gentlemen and ladies who have been, or may hereafter be, so good as to honour me with their names, shall have the Book next Winter according to my Proposals: and if it should, in any degree, be judged worthy their encouragement, I have my best reward." This inuendo must have had its due effect; for a quarto and an oc tavo edition of The Seasons, &c. were published in 1730, and of the former about 360 copies were subscribed for, at a guinea each. The "many-headed monster" therefore proved a purveyor of golden fruit to the poet of the Seasons. T. P. ART. XII. The Use of Passions. Written in French by J. F. Senault; and put into English by Henry Earl of Monmouth, An. Dom. 1649. London, Printed for J. L. and Humphrey Mosely, at the Prince's Arms in St. Paul's Church Yard, 1649. pp. 510, besides the author's dedication, with the translator's preface and table of contents. Prefixed is an engraved title by W.M.* representing Reason directed by Divine Grace, restraining with a chain Sorrow, Choler, Joy, Fear, Despair, Hope, Boldness, Eschewing, Hatred, Love, and Desire: underneath are the following lines: "Passions araing'd by Reason here you see, As shee's advis'd therein by Grace Divine: Peruse this Booke, and you in ev'ry line It should also possess a bust of the Earl by Faithorne, † which my copy wants, and which is so scaree * William Marshall, + Query? Granger says, by Marshall, and adds there is another head of him before his Translation of the Wars of Flanders, 1654, fol. There is another print by Faithorne of this Earl before his "Translation of Boccalini's Advertisements from The Parnassus," 1656, fol. This last the Editor possesses. Editor, E 2 I have I have never been able to procure it. I have seen a very inferior impression prefixed to an edition of the book in 1671; the date evidently altered in Marshall's title, which appears to have been retouched. This edition is by no means so rare or so correct as the original. - The author's dedication is to our Saviour Jesus Christ, and as we are told by the translator, in his preface, he had at one time an idea of dedicating "this my product of some leasure-hours to an exactly accomplished Lady of Honor; but considering that my author hath chosen our Saviour Jesus Christ for his Patron, I thought I should go less, should I chuse any other for my Patroness then the King's daughter, his Spouse, the Church." The work consists of two parts, the first containing five treatises "Of Passions in General. 1. Of the Nature of Passions. 2. Of the Disorder of Passions 3. Of the Government of Passions. 4. Of the Commerce of Passions, with Vertue and Vice. 5. Of the Power that Passions have upon the Will of Man." The second part contains six, "Of Passions in Particular. 1. Of Love and Hatred. 2. Of Desire and Eschewing. 3. Of Hope and Despair. 4. Of Audacity and Fear. 5. Of Choler and Anger. 6. Of Delight and Sorrow." As, from the great length of all the above treatises, it is impossible to give a sufficiently connected extract, I shall conclude with a specimen of the noble Earl's poetical talents in the following lines. "The Translator upon the Book. If to command and rule o'er others be Who Who govern can, who can command Himself If you unto so great a Pow'r aspire, This Book will teach how you may it acquire. Love turn'd to sacred Friendship here you'll find, To have to all the Virtues near relation: III. You'll find how Hope incites to noble acts; How harmless Joy we may fore-runner make And how our earthly sorrow nothing is, ART. XIII. A Chronological List of English Writers on Agriculture. With anecdotes and remarks. [CONTINUED FROM VOL. II. P. 228.] XII. SAMUEL HARTLIB. The following memorials are copied from Kennet's Political Register, pp. 868-872. An abstract of them by the present Editor may be found in Gent. Mag. Vol. LXXII. p. 12. Mr. Hartlib's Account of HIMSELF in a letter dated 3 Aug. 1660. "My father was a merchant, but no ordinary one, being the King of Poland his merchant, who hath founded a church at Posnania in Poland. And when the Jesuits prevailed in that kingdom, he was fain to remove himself into Prussia; where he came to Elbing, where not any house of credit was yet built. But he, with another Patricius of Breslaw in Silesia, built two stately houses, which are yet standing at Elbing, being the principal houses of the town; the building whereof cost my father many thousands of rix dollars in those cheap days. Immediately after he erected, there, Niumferbing, my grandfather, the Deputy of the English Company at Dantzick, bringing the English Company to Elbing; and so that town by trading came to that splendor and wealth wherein it hath continued these many years. "My father had married before two Polonian gentlewomen, of a noble extraction, both of them being ladies, according to the fashions in those countries; in regard |