(BEING THE TWELFTH OF A NEW SERIES.) LONDON: Printed by JOHN NICHOLS and SON, where LETTERS are particularly requested to be sent, POST-PAID THE IPHIGENIA OF TIMANTHES. The subject of the NEWDIGATE Prize at Oxford for 1819. FANCY! fair, radiant, goddess of the Speechless her lips, yet resolute her eye, skies, Rob'd in the rifled rainbow's thousand dyes; In mute appeal for mercy to the sky: wear; Thou, that of Eld so rapt Timanthes' view,It taught Diana's savage soul to spare. chose; Bid pilfering Time again restore his prey, In sober sorrow stands the priestly seer; Could almost dare to deprecate the blow; This is the throe that bleeding bosoms bear, In sadder, stiller, prominence of pain, Fixte and forlorn, in terror's breathless calm, Her big soul palpitates with mad alarm ; But mark that form! amid the group In dumb distraction tow'rs the warrior Deep in his heart the father yearns to To draw from Pity twice her wonted throe; That grief might blend with grandeur and This! Aulis! this! we owe thy piteous HYMN FOR SUMMER*. YE zephyrs bland, at opening day That on the rippling waters play! Ye mists, that from the valleys crowd, Ye bending crops of full-ear'd corn, HIMes my soul with good! And To his just praise my song employ; * Sequel to the Hymn for Spring See Gent. Mag for May last, p. 465. W E are called upon, as usual, at the close of a Half-yearly Volume, to open a new Season of our Literary Theatre, by a Prefatory Address. Of course we must adopt a language suited to the occasion, and a costume adapted to the times. We must do what is indispensable in such situations-make fair promises, and be sure to keep them. We must summon confidence to appeal to the past, as a probable pledge of the future. "The object of Philosophy," says Stewart, "is to ascertain the Laws which regulate the succession of events, in order that, when called upon to act in any particular combination of circumstances, we may be able to anticipate the probable course of Nature from our past experience, and regulate our conduct accordingly." We know what has been ( repeatedly said about Plebophobia; but we are not convinced that the alarm is unsound, We think that there is one leading cause of our public vexations too extensive population. Our very virtues and also our vices augment the evil. This paradox is explained by Franklin. Industry and frugality, with an easy means of acquiring subsistence, are the leading causes of increasing population. But our manners are luxurious; and how much manners influence States, is evident from Switzerland and other countries, where there is not a greater sum expended in subsistence than ought to be consumed. Scotland, where the necessaries of life are as dear, or dearer than in London, yet where the people of all ranks marry, is a proof how manners operate on the numbers of a country. Thus we see how both rich and poor countries co-operate in the process of overstocking Nations and how much luxurious habits tend to render provision for the poor more difficult. ́ ́ Dismissing |