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to ourselves, that lie in ambush around us, have they no right to our tears? If so, why should we want the courage to reprefent to the world the virtues of a man in humble life? Let him be born in the loweft rank of fociety, believe me (if his poet be a man of genius) he will appear greater in our eyes [we fuppofe the Author means he will intereft us more] than those kings whose lofty language has fo long ftunned our ears. Where new regulations are to take place [alluding to the drama] they ought undoubtedly to be adapted to the manners of a nation, from which the dramatic characters are taken. We are justly delighted with natural expreffion, says Pascal, for where we expected to find an author, we find a man.'

We will allow our Author the truth of the above obfervations, but not without exceptions. We agree with him that the highest utility to be hoped from theatrical representations muft proceed from those whose characters lie nearer upon a level with our own. But we are of opinion that those which might be taken from the very lowest ranks in fociety,' would be unfit for exhibition. However far from other diftinctions, they should at least be supposed to have had the advantages of liberal knowledge and fentiment, to give dignity to their virtue. Characters from the lowest ranks, from the cells of loathfome penury, and brutal ignorance, however virtuous they might be, and into the hands of whatever poet they might fall, would be unfit for representation. Neither, to rife a ftep higher, would the illiterate and unfentimental peafant, who brought up his family with decency, with all the domeftic diftreffes that the poet's imagination could give him, be an object more proper for the ftage. 'Tis true, we might pity the poor man, but then, probably, we fhould pity his author too.

In enumerating yet unoccupied fubjects, fuch as our Author thinks proper for the drama, he mentions the following. Has the Atheist been reprefented on the ftage, who blafphemes to give himfelf airs, who is not even fenfible of his own folly, who thinks that an efprit fort, and a philofopher are fynonimous terms, and who endeavours to make profelytes by way of encouraging himself in a way where he is afraid of walking alone? Could it not be proved to such a man, that he was a barbarous wretch, who wanted to deprive mankind of the hope of futurity, of the idea that they exifted under the eye of a Being, who heard and recorded their fighs? With fuch a character might be contrafted a man living in indigent obfcurity, far from the interest or attention of fociety, yet fupported by religious hope in peace beneath the eye of Providence. Though loft to the comforts and conveniences of life, his eye looks not to the last and horrible resource of guilty mifery. He bleffes every pang that

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he endures, because every one brings him nearer to that final object on which his hope and his foul were fufpended. Let the Atheist approach and endeavour to deprive him of that hope, tell him that his fufferings are without remedy, that he has nothing to expect from a Being who does not exift! Would not the unnatural wretch infpire, on fuch an occafion, the higheft horror? Would not his odious fyftem appear in the trueft light? And would not the poor man be an image of mankind in general; for who dares say to his heart, Thou haft no hope?

Though we do moft readily give every degree of credit to this fuggeftion that fo meritorious an idea can deserve, yet furely we must conclude that the Author's piety and benevolence far exceed his knowledge of the world. If that be not the cafe, and if we be mistaken, we must take it for granted that the theatres on the Continent are more aufpicious to divinity than our own; for fhould fuch a drama appear at DruryLane, it would, most affuredly, be remanded to the pulpit.

We difmifs this Writer, under a firm perfuafion, that his imagination is fuperior to his judgment, and that his heart is better than either.

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L'Art D'Aimer, et Poefies Diverfes, De M. Bernard.-The Art of Love, and other Poems, by M. Bernard. 8vo.

THESE Poems are introduced with a complimentary epigram on the Author, by Mr. Voltaire, entitled, Les Trois Bernards. The Three Bernards: the Saint, the Financier, and the Poet. The laft of whom he fays, will be known when the other two are forgot: and, indeed, it feems very probable. There is a delicate vein of wit and fancy, as well as an easy gentility in the verfes of M. Bernard, which will fufficiently appear from the few following ftanzas on his being in love with a fhepherdess.

Quand fes traits frappent mes yeux,
Les rangs ne me touchent gueres :
Doris connait peu d'Ayeux,

Mais mille amours font fes freres:

Son cœur tout au fentiment
Ne veut efprit, ni fyftême:
Auffi tel eft fon amant ;

Ce n'eft pas Newton qu'elle aime.

Bifer,

Baifer, regard, & foupir,
Voilà tout notre langage:
Mon etude eft fon plaifir;
Mon plaifir eft fon ouvrage.
Sa voix eft le fon du cœur,
Qui d'un feul mot fait tout dire,
Son visage eft une fleur,
Qu' epanouit le fourire.

Deux ames femblent preffer
Son fein qui croit, & s'eleve:
La Pudeur le fait baiffer;
Et le defir le fouleve.

Something a little like it in English :

Delia's fmile is wealth to me,
Wealth and rank and ancestry ;
She the nobleft lineage proves,
Sifter of a thousand loves!

Eyes that languish, heart that glows
All the fcience Delia knows!

Charms like thefe could learning give?
Love with wit can never live.

The kifs, the figh, the tender look
Our language all from Nature's book!
Our ftudies only to impart
Mutual pleasure to the heart.

Her voice, the foul's foft mufic plays,
In one fweet word a thousand says !
Her face, a flower of vernal morn,
That opens, and a smile is born!
The regions of her beauteous breast
Seem of two gentle fouls poffeft,
Advancing now with fond defire,
They now with modefty retire.

We recommend thefe poems of M. Bernard, as the most ele gant French verses we have lately met with.

INDEX

To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume, including the FOREIGN ARTICLES in the Reviews April, May, June, and Appendix.

N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, fee the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.

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AIKIN, Mr. See TACITUS, 152.
AMERICA. See COLONIES.
ANNALS of the reign of Maria The-
refa, Emprefs, 535.
ANALYSIS of L'Hiftoire Philofophique des
Etabliffemens des Européans dans le deux
Indes, 597.

ANATOMY, Comparative, new fpecies
of, 623.

ANIMALCULES, &c. natural hiftory of,
167.

ANTIMONIALS. See FEVERS.
ARTICLES, grammatic, explained, 98.
ARTICULATION. See SPEECH.
ARTS, polite, obftructions to their pro-

grefs in England enquired into, 300 AUGER, M. his difc. on education, 536. AUSTRIA, general history of, 350.

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ton and Leibnitz concerning space and

a vacuum, 568. His memoir concerning the equilibrium of the mind between equal and oppofite motives, and the principle of choice, 579. BEHAVIOUR, polite and the contrary, exemplified, 115.

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BELLES LETTRES. See PHILOSOPHY.
BERLIN, Royal Academy of, begins a
new series of its Memoirs, 574.
BERNARD, M. his poetry commended,
639.
BETZKY, M. his account of plans of
education, laws, &c. founded by the
Empress of Ruffia, 342.
BIBLE. See RONDET.

BITAUBE, M. his investigation of the
-Italian language, 572. His difcourfe
on Moliere, 584.

BLACKSTONE, Judge, his mistake con

cerning the divifion of tythings, 502. BLAKE, Mr. introduces the art of ma nufacturing Morocco leather into England, 557

Bossuт, Abbé, his course of mathematics, 441.

BRISTOL, prefent Bp. of, charge against him retracted, 279.

BUCHOz, M. his univerfal hiftory of the vegetable world, 440. His engravings relative to the above work, 535. BUFFON'S natural history of birds, Vol. III. 437.

BUSCHING's topography of Brandenburg, 444.

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C.

ADMUS, a different perfonage from A what he is generally fuppofed to have been, 484.

CAMPBELL, Mr. his cafe, relating to
the Grenada duty, 89.
CANCERS cured by arfenic, 533.
CANNON, iron, improvements in the
cafting of, 614.

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CAR

CARRACCIOLI, Mr. his life of Pope
Clement XIV. 344.
CARSTARES, Mr. memoirs of his life,
145. His ftate papers, 217.
CARTE, Thomas, his materials for a
continuation of his History of England,
243.

CASANOVA's hiftory of the troubles in
Poland, 342.

CACE, Dr. account of, 203.
CASTILLON, M. his attempt to recon-
cile Defcartes and Locke, 583.
CATINAT, Marshal, memoirs of, 348.
CATT, M. de, his conteft with Pernety,
concerning phyfiognomy, 573, 584.
CERES, goddess, explanatory account of,
477.

CHABANON on the phrenzy of imitating
the English garden, 345.
CHARTREUSE, mountain of, defcribed,
384.

CHEMISTRY, legerdemain tricks per-
formed by, 27.

CISTERCIAN Monks, great privileges
of that order, 224.

DELISLE, Abbé, his poem on rural life,
344.

DE L'OR ME's Gouvernement Oeconomique,
532.

DEMONIACS, of the New Testament,
controverfy concerning, 205.
DESMAREST, his mem. on the origin,
&c. of the Bafaltes, 619. On the pa-
per manufactories of Holland, 624.
DICTIONARY.
See
See RONDET.

FAVART. See Bucнoz.
Docs, act of parliament to reduce the
numbers of, recommended, 18.
DRAMA, English, fatirical remarks on
the prefent ftate of, 140. New fpecies
of the drama, in France, 634.
DUANE, Mr. his collection of the Brun-
fwick state papers, 244.

DUSAULX, M. his letters, &c, on the
paffion for gaming, 536.

DU SEJOUR, his effay on comets, 524.
DuvoISIN, Abbé, his defence of the
New Teftament against unbelievers,
590.

E.

ARTH, curious fuggeftions concern-

CLARENDON, Lord, wrote his hiftory Eing the age of, 615. Its deftruc-

under prejudices and fuperftition, 135.
CLERC's French tranflation of M. Betz-
ky's Ruffian plans, ftatutes, &c. 341.
CLEMENT XIV. his life, 344.
COCKFIGHTING, fermon against, 95.
COLMAN, his tranflation of Terence
compared with a later attempt, 322.
COLONIES, British, administration of the
government of, 9. Mr. Burke's fen-
timents on, 79. Other opinions, 83-
88. Farther difcuffion, 173. Great
queftion relative to the taxation of dif-
cuffed, 253, 446. Remarks on the
acts of the last parliament relative to,
519. Galloway's plan of accommoda-
tion with, 537. Farther fentiments
of Mr. Burke relative to, 543.
COMETS, Curious obf. on the nature of,
524.
CONVENTION Parliament, character of,

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CROCODILE, the vertebra of an huge
one found in a quarry, 6:9.

D.

ALMATIA, &c. hiftory of, 594.

DDANIEL, his prophecy of feventy

weeks, new explication of, 487.

tion prognofticated from extreme cold,
618.

EDUCATION, rural, preferable to that
in cities, 49.

EEL, quaking, account of the phenome-
non obfervable in, 577.
ELECTRICITY, amufing experiments
in, 24. Some new and valuable ones,
33°.

EMPHASIS explained, 402.
ENGLISH, their capacity for excelling in
the polite arts, inveftigated, 300. Re-
markable for their integrity in ancient
times, 422. Their manly amufe-
ments, 424.

EPIGRAM on the Welch, Scotch, and
Irish, teaching the English Language,

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cers, 533.

FEVERS, reflections on the theory of,
and on antimonial remedies, 91. Puer-
peral, produced by different caufes, and
requiring different methods of cure,
185.

DEBT, national, inconveniences and ad- FIRE, experim. on the weight of,

vantages arising from, 39-41.

DE HAEN, his defence of magic, 591.

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ball of, extraordinary one obferved

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in France, 622,

FLETCHER,

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