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1. An Account of Acber 11. the present Great Mogul, or
. Emperor of Delhi, with the Modern History of that City to a
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1 ►. Sabina (front the German of Bottiger), Scene 2.
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Roman Ladies.
13. Heywood's Hierarchy of Blessed Angels.
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Readers with tw-o Notes, One on the celebrated
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fourth Book ; and on 6 containing some general
criticism on the fifth

L. ;01.•--.'Twas night," &c.
This description of a still night, and of the repose of
Nature, contrasted with the sleepless and tumultuous agonies
of the death-devoted Queen, has been very generally ad-
mired ; and the Reader need not be informed that it is closely
copied from a very fine passage in the Argonautics of •APOL-
Losius. The passage in question, with a translation of it
by my friend Mr. WitiNutiam, sh:sll be transcribed."
The Greek original, from Argo : iii. 743, is
here cited by Dr. S., but we shall content our-
selves with giving to our Readers nothing more
(Lan the translation, as'the curious and the learn-
ed of them may easily turn to the page of the
Greek Poet :

Now night o'er all her sable covering spread;
And from the deck his glance the seaman sped,
Where wheels the Bear, or bright Orion glows;
The traveller now and watchman wooed repose.
Even where her clay-cold babe the mother wept,
• O'er her dimmed eyes the heavy slumber crept, '
'Twits silence all ! no tread of echoing fret,
- Or bathing dog, disturb'd the midnight. street, •
But 110 sweet slumber seal'd MEDEA'S eyes,' &c.
" If VI gnu imitated in this instance, it must be confessed
that he has greatly improved. His choice of images is more
curiously select and better arranged than that of the Greek
Poet. I feel that. in the latter, the-circumstance of the
wretched mother falling asleep over her dead children (for it
is children in the original) is rather too strong an aggrava-
tion ; and that, after this most forcible illustration of the
power of sleep, it is an anticlimax to mention the silence of
the dogs in the streets, and the vague circumstance of there
being no murmur of sounds, B.apoos Y,EY HXl2Eic. The
remaining part, however, of this last verse istuost beautiful:
c- Ty?;FiE I.4EACItyGILEYY,Y EXEY OHYY,Y, Silence occupied
the black darkness.' TRAPP, in his note on this passage, has
cited a very beautiful description of night from LEE'S Theo-
dosius. As it must please my Readers, I will dlso transcribe
it. Of the celebrated lines on the same subject, in. the
Indian Emperor,' by DRYDEN, my opinion is not much
more favourable than that which is here given of them by the
Oxford Professor. They are in the worst style of their great
Author. But, now LEE is to he exhibited :
'Tis night—dead night, and weary Nature lies
So fast, as if she never were to rise.
No breath of wind now whispers through the trees:
Nu noise .at land, nor murmur in the seas,
Lean wolves forget to howl at night's pale noon :
Nur wakeful dogs bark at the silent moon,
Nor bay the ghosts; which glide with horror by,
To view the caverns where their bodies lie.
The ravens perch, and no presages give;
Nor to the windows of the dying cleave.
'he owls foitger to scream : nu midnight sound
Calls drowsy echo from the hollow ground.'