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Warehouses, in Scotland-yard, and Earl-street, Biacktebri. •
Stepney and Shadwell Churches are stuccoed with Mastic ;
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all rough out-door purposes.

CONTINUATION OF JOHNSON'S LIVES
OF THE POETS.

We are happy to have to announce miter Readers
the appearance, in .the Number of the London Maga-
zine just published by Messrs. TAYLOR and HERSEY,
the first of a series of valuable Papers, in continua-
tion of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. It
is now exactly a century since the birth of AKENSTOE,
the latest of those who have a place in that collection,
and the space which the whole occupies is not much
more than a century: an attempt, therefore, to con-
tinue this work to our own times, is not only a de-
sirable undertaking, but almost a necessary duty of
the age in which we live. That the intervening pe-
riod abounds with most interesting, materials for
biography and diticism, is evident from the names
of GOLDSMITH, JOHNSON, CHURCHILL, CHATTERTON,
THOMAS and JOSEPH WA RTON, MASON, FALCONER,
GLOVER, MICKLE, HAMMOND, LANGHORNE, Sir
WILLIAM JONES, HURDIS, BEATTIE, BURNS, COWPER,
and many of later date, not inferior to these in
excellence. The life now given is that of Thomas
Wairrow. We extract the following critical esti-
mate of his poetical merit, as a highly favourable
specimen of the judgment and spirit with which the
Continu•ition promises to be conducted :
" Among the Poets of the second class, he de-
serves a distinguished place. He is almost equally
pleasing in his gayer, and in his more exalted moods.
His mirth is without malice or indecency, and his
seriousness without gloom.
In his lyrical pieces, if we seek in vain for the
variety and music of Dryden, the tender and moral
sublime of Gray, or the enthusiasm of Collins, yet
se recognize an attention ever awake to the ap-
pearances of Nature, and a mind stored with the
images of classical and Gothic antiquity. Though
his diction is rugged, it is like the cup in Pindar,
which Telamon stretches out to Alcides, rough with
gold, and embost with curious imagery. A lover of
the ancients would, perhaps, be offended, if the Bird..
day Ode, beginning
Within what fountain's craggy cell
44 Delights the goddess Health to dwell?'"

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were compared, as to its subject, with that of the
Theban bard, on the illness of Hiero, which opens
with a wish that Chiron were yet living, in order
that the Poet might consult him on the case of the
Syracusan monarch ; and in its form, with that in
which be asks of his native city, in whom of all her
heroes she most delighted.
" Among the Odes, some of which might more
properly be termed Idylliums, The Hamlet is of un-
common beauty; the landscape is truly English,
and has the truth and tenderness of Gainsborough's
pencil. Those To a Friend on his leaving a Village
in Hampshire, and the First of April, are entitled to
similar praise. The Crusade, The Grave of King
Arthur, and most of the Odes composed for the
Court, are in a higher strain. In the Ode written at
Vale Royal Abbey is a striking image, borrowed
from some lent verses, written by Archbishop Mark-
ham, and printed in the second volume of that
collection :

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" ' nigh o'er the trackless heath, at midnight seen,
" ' No more the windows ranged in long array
a ' (Where the tall shaft and fretted arch between
a ' Thick ivy twines) the taper'd rites betray !'"
44 Prodidit arcanas or is fcnestra facet."
" His sonnets have been highly and deservedly
commended by no less competent a judge than Mr.
Coleridge. They are alone sufficient to prove (if any
proof were wanting) that this form of composition
Caspe diem— is not unsuited to our language. One of our longest,
Be prontinlb wise. as it is one of our most beautiful poems, the Facrie
WHEN Science began to explore the complicated Queene, is written in a stanza which demands the
machinery of Man, she was speedily entangled in a la- continual recurrence of an equal number of rhymes ;
byrinth of mysterious confusion, from which intellectual perse-
and the chief objection to our adopting the sonnet is
verance alone emancipated her. Ignorance and empiricism,
the paucity of our rhymes.
however, still oppose their venomous hostility, and the prejudice
of weak minds, in some measure, encourages their audacity.. As " The Lines to Sir Joshua Reynolds are marked
Truth is to Falsehood—so may our public statements be con-
by the happy turn of the compliment, and by the
pared with their unqualified pretensions, and to expose their fat-
strength and harmony of the versification, at least
lades, we have not hesitated to avow ourselves as practitioners
Is a class of Diseases which endanger the mystic evolutions of as far as the formal couplet measure will admit of
Nature. To be brief twe are Members of the London Col- those qualities. They need not fear a comparison
lege of Surgeons, can establish the integrity of our Character with the verses addressed by Dryden to knelier, or
upon the success of Twenty Years' practical experience, and an-
by Pope to Jervas.
nounce the grateful testimony of those in whom long suffering
had nearly extinguished every hope of relief. " His Latin compositions are nearly as excellent
We pledge ourselves to the removal of Syphilis, from it as his English. The few hendecasyllables be has
incipient symptoms to the remotest stages, characterized by ,}eft,have more of the vigour of Catullus than those
every doubt and whatever malignancy. The intricate and
by naminio ; but Flamini° excels him in delicacy.
much neglected diseases of the Urethra have been carefully and
studiously considered, as have also those delicate and important The Mons Catharines contains nearly the same images
sympathies which refer to the Female Sex. The infirmities of as Gray's Ode on a Prospect of Eton College. In
virility have been especially noticed:whether as arising from the the word ' cedrince; which occurs in the verses on
Trinity College Chapel, he has, we believe, errone-
debilitating tyranpy of a tropical atmosphere—the natural bits
of constitution—the imprudence of gaiety—or the more alarming
results of a propensity to practicer " which shun the light ; ' the ously maadse
a femininethepe
nultiamoaatne, lionngth.e
lines Dr. Ntlraailtialtieads
progress of which is marked by a gradual dereliction of the ani- observed another mistake in his use '
of the word
mai powers. To all who are thus circumstanced, and more i Temp-i
especially to such as are aspirants for connubial pleasures, We I
from Akenside. When in his sports with his brother's
earnestly recommend our Commentary ( The "Egis ;if Isle), the
perusal of which must prove beneficial to their moral haepine•A 1 scholars at Winchester he made their exercises for
I'he Book may be had at 20, Paternoster-mw ; 19, P.:11-Nall; them, he used to ask the boy how many faults he
i 41, Piccadilly ; 16, Prince's-street, Soho; 174, anti 12, F.' let i woald have :—our sach would have been sutEc;ent
street; 40, West Smithfield; 93, Cheapaide ; Burks and Ste- fur
a lad near the head of the school.
vensen, Norwich; Oeck, Ipswich; Sheppaid, Bristol; Barran
' and Outfield, Bath; Hatt, Cambridge; Headley, Leeds; and I " His style in prose, tilt:n.3ll marked by a ch-
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by all Booksellers. r:tcter of magnificence, is at times still and encum.
Remedies can be forwarded to any part of the country ; Pa- 1 bered. He is too fond of alliteration in prose as
1 tients writing frr the same, will please to enclose a Bank Note
Attendance at home for conultation as usual.
• I , well as in verse; and the cadei.ce of his senteme:; is
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