reader will find a perpetual source of pleasure and instruction. With due precautions authors may learn to grace their style with elegance, harmony, and precision; they may be taught to think with vigour and perspicuity; and, to crown the whole, by a diligent attention to these books, all may advance in virtue. LONDON: A Poem: IN IMITATION OF THE THIRD SATIRE OF JUVENAL. WRITTEN IN 1738. Quis ineptæ Tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se? JUV. THO' grief and fondness in my breast rebel, When injur❜d THALES* bids the town farewell, JUV. SAT. III. 1 Quamvis digressu veteris confusus amici ; Laudo tamen vacuis quod sedem figere Cumis Destinet, atque unum civem donare Sibyllæ. * Sir John Hawkins says, that by Thales we are here to understand Savage. Mr. Boswell asserts that this is entirely groundless, and adds, "I have been assured that Dr. Johnson said, he was not so much as acquainted with Savage when he wrote his London." This added to the circumstance of the date (for Savage did not set out for Wales till 1739) might be decisive, if unfortunately for Mr. Boswell he had not, a few pages after, given us some highly complimentary lines which he was assured were written by Dr. Johnson," Ad Ricardum Savage, in April 1738, about a month before London was published. This surely implies previous acquaintance with Savage, for Dr. Johnson would not have |