'THE GRANDE CHARTREUSE, IN DAUPHINY, AUGUST 1741. everi Religio loci, gaudes nomine (non leve m certè fluenta habet, veteresque sylvas; n & conspicimus Deum pes, fera per juga, præruptos, sonantes quas, nemorumque noctem; -òstus sub trabe citreâ o, & Phidiacâ manu) anti ritè, fesso et idam juveni quietem. Horas senectæ ducere li Tutumque vulgari tu Surripias, hominum Thas imitated by a Gentlen Hear, awful genius of The trackless rocks, th But, if stern Fortun To taste the swee senectæ ducere liberas; tumque vulgari tumultu Surripias, hominumque curis. [1] Thus imitated by a Gentleman of Sunderland: Hear, awful genius of the solemn grove, (And say what title best can please thine ear; Those age-struck woods and native rivers prove No common genius bears dominion here. The trackless rocks, the mountain's savage height, In glory more than if the Citrean beam, But, if stern Fortune shou'd forbid my flight, To taste the sweets of sacred Silence' reign, I mius of this hallow'd place ! no common power pervades acred streams, these antique glades ;) s abrupt, in foaming floods, * Mr. Merry. If the vast aby And thro' the wind Some pitying porti IGNED IN 1742, BY MR. GRAY, ON THE SUBJECT OF EATH OF AGRIPPINA. [1] nt of this Fragment is as follows: "The Britannicus know, was one of Mr. Gray's most favourite plays; ble manner in which I have heard him say that he ed at Paris, seems to have led him to choose the bina for this his first and only effort in the drama. of it also, as far as it goes, is so very much in Racine's pect, if that great poet had been born an Englishhave written precisely in the same style and man, as there is at present in this nation a general preleclamatory plays, I agree with a learned friend, e manuscript, that this fragment will be little reany; yet the admirable strokes of nature and chach it abounds, and the majesty of its diction, preithholding from the few, who I expect will relish iosity (to call it nothing more) as part of a tragedy Gray. These persons well know, that till style and ittle more regarded, mere action and passion will putation to the Author, whatever they may do to the business of the one "to strut and fret his hour ' and if he frets and struts enough, he is sure to find ee Tacitus' Annals, Book xiii. xiv. that pursued, is the best for dra nedion between the Fren ❝to either; and yet this med fall of success on our theat Actors (I speak of the troo well as act, in order to do But let me hasten to give the "Gray's plan, as I find, and Title and Dramatis Person AG A DRAMA Agrippina, the Emp Nero, the Emperor. Poppaa, believed to Orho, a young man Seneca, the Empero Anicetus, Captain o Demetrius, the Cyn Aceronia, Confidan SCENE, the "The argument drawn out "of a plot and under-plo "that the action itself wa |