O thou, the dear inflamer of mine eyes,
Life of my soul, and heart's eternal prize!
How orient is thy beauty!' how divine!
How dark the glory of the earth to thine!".

-p. 377.

The passages which I have marked as Sublime, might have been introduced under the head of the Descriptive.

"To Him are freely giv'n, the keys

Of heaven and earth, to open when he please,
And lock whene'er he list! In Him it lies
To ope the shoreing floodgates of the skies,
Or shut them at his pleasure! In his hand
Are all the Host of Heaven.".

-p. 132.

"Let mountains clap their joyful hands,
And let the lesser hills trace o'er the lands
In equal measure; and resounding woods,

Bow down your heads, and kiss your neighb'ring floods,
Let Peace and Love exalt your key of mirth,

For now there's peace in heaven, there peace on earth.”

"If God command, the dusky clouds march forth
Into a tempest! From the freezing North
He beckons frost and snow!

p. 143

Know'st thou the progress of the rambling clouds,
From mortal eyes, when gloomy darkness shrouds
The lamps of Heaven? Know'st thou the reason why?
Çan'st thou unriddle Heaven's philosophy ?"-p. 237.

"Heaven hath decreed !--- His will adjourn'd the doom
Of threat'ned Sion, and her time is come!
His hand is arm'd with thunder! From his eyes
A flame, more quick than sulph'rous Ætna, flies!
Sion must fall! That hand, which hath begun,

Can never rest till the full work be done.".

p. 416.

In "Sion's" and the " Funeral Elegies," we have many

examples of genuine pathos.

"Had

"Ifad not the milder hand of mercy broke
The furious violence of that fatal stroke

Offended justice struck, we had been quite
Lost in the shadows of eternal night!

Thy mercy, Lord! is like the morning sun,
Whose beams undo what sable night hath done:
Or like a stream, the current of whose course,
Restrain'd awhile, runs with a swifter force.
O let me swelter in those sacred beams;
And, after, bathe me in these silver streams:
To thee alone my sorrows shall appeal :

HATH EARTH A WOUND, TOO HARD FOR HEAVEN TO p. 426.

HEAL?".

"O thou, my great Creator---thou, that art

The only rock of a despairing heart;

Look down from heaven, O thou, whose tender

Once heard the trickling of a single tear

How often hast thou, with a gentle arm;

ear,

Rais'd me from death, and bid me fear no harm!"----p. 430.

"So may the fair aspect of pleased heaven.

Conform my noon of days, and crown their even;

As I lament, with unaffected breath,

Our loss, dear Ailmer, in thy happy death.

May the false tear, that's forc'd, or slides by art,

THE TEAR THAT HATI NO WARRANT FROM THE HEART:

O may that tear in stricter judgment rise

Against those false, those faint, those flattering eyes." p. 452.

"Thus to the world, and to the spacious ears
Of fame, I blazon my unboasted tears:
Thus to thy sacred dust, thy urn, thy hearse,
I consecrate my sighs, my tears, my verse:
Thus to thy soul, thy name, thy just desert,
I offer up my joy, my love, my heart;
That earth may know, and every car that hears,
True worth and grief were parents to my tears;
That earth may know thy dust, thy urn, thy hearse,
Brought forth and bred my sighs, my tears, my verse;
And that thy soul, thy name, thy just desert,
Invites, incites my joy, my love, my heart.".

Vol. VI. Churchun. Mag. March, 1804.

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p. 453.

The

The Apostrophes, or Addresses to the Deity, &c. &c. are in general excellent; particularly those at pages 61, 93, and 100.

"Thou great director of the hearts of men,

From whence I propagate whate'er is mine:
Still my disquiet thoughts; direct my pen,
No more my own, if thou adopt it thine;
O be thy Spirit all in all to me,

That will implore no aid, no muse but thee!
Unworthy I, to take so high a task;

Unworthy I, to crave so great a boon!

Alas! unseason'd is my slender cask:

My winter's day hath scarcely seen her noon.
But, if the children's bread must be denied,
Yet let me lick the crumbs that fall beside!”.

p. 93.

In his Similies, this writer is peculiarly happy. In the particularity of his descriptions; he discovers an intimate acquaintance with the resembling objects.

"As when a lady, walking Flora's bower,
Picks here a pink, and there a gilliflower,
Now plucks a vi'let from its purple bed,
And then a primrose drooping its meek head:
There nips the brier, and here, the lover's pauncy,
Shifting her dainty pleasures with her fancy:
This on her arm, and that she lists to wear
Upon the borders of her curious hair:
At length, a rosebud, passing all the rest,
She plucks, and bosoms in her lily breast:"
So, &c. &c. &c.. -p. 111, 112.

"As when the winged commonwealth of bees,
(Whose careful summer providence foresees
The approaching fruitless winter, which denies
The crown of labour) some with laden thighs
Take charge to bear their waxy burthens home;
Others receive the welcome load; and some
Dispose the wax; others the plot contrive;
Some build the curious comb; some guard the hive
Like armed centinels; others distrain

The purer honey from the wax; some train

And

And discipline the young, while others drive
The sluggish drones from their deserved hive."-

"Even as a hen, (whose tender brood forsake,
The downy closet of her wings, and take
Each its affected way) marks how they feed,
This, on that crumb; and that on t'other seed;
Moves as they move; and stays when as they stay;
And seems delighted in their infant play;

Yet fearing danger with a busy eye,

Looks here and there, if ought she can espy,

Which unawares might snatch a booty from her

p. 128.

Eyes all that pass, and watches every comer," &c.&c. p. 168.

"Even as the soil (which April's gentle showers
Have fill'd with sweetness and enricht with flowers)
Rears up her suckling plants, still shooting forth
The tender blossoms of her timely birth;

But if denied the beams of chearly May,
They hang their withered heads and fade away;
So man," &c. &c.-
-p. 188.

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The Simile of the Hen, is, in my opinion, a delicious morceau of poetry.-These specimens of Quarles's muse, will, doubtless, entertain your readers and if they excite in the poetical or pious mind, a wish to peruse all the pieces, whence the excerpts are taken, I do not think the gratification of that wish, will be either idle or unprofitable, I remain your respectful Servant,

Jan. 22, 1804.

ON THE OBSERVANCE OF LENT.

R. P.

THE HE Endeavour Society, in their constant and unremitting zeal for the diffusion of sound principles, have lately been engaged in printing and widely distributing two well written papers; one on the due OBSERVANCE OF LENT, the other ON THE LORD'S SUPPER, We have received copies of both, and shall present them to our readers, conceiving that we cannot better concur with the designs of that excellent society in printing these papers, than in contributing as far as we can to the making

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them known. They are each of them printed on a large half sheet, for the purpose of being pasted up in the house. They are to be obtained of any subscriber to that society gratis; and those who cannot obtain them from the society may be supplied with them at a very moderate expence from Messrs. Rivingtons, or Mr. Hatchard.

The season of LENT having been appointed by the Primitive Church to commemorate the time when our blessed Lord endured FASTING and TEMPTATION in the Wilderness, has been appropriated to the necessary exercise of HUMILIATION in every age from that time to the present; and the spiritual advantages it bestows will be a powerful inducement with sincere christians to perform such 66 an acceptable service" in "sincerity and truth." We find that FASTING was the constant practice of devout persons in all ages, as is recorded in regular succession throughout the whole Scripture History," which was written for our instruction by holy men of God, who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost."

The necessity and importance of such methods have ever been acknowledged, and indeed they cannot be denied, as a very necessary part of the Christian life; since our Great Redeemer, who was frequent in this exercise, observed to his Disciples, that after he (their Bridegroom) was taken from them, "THEN SHOULD they FAST in those days;" directing them not to do it from a vain ostentation, or appearance unto men to fast," by an affected show, but to conduct themselves with the same due propriety as at other times, that they might " do that which was pleasing in the sight of God; and their Heavenly Father, who seeth in secret," and knoweth all the purposes of the heart, "will reward them openly," by the manifestation of his good pleasure, and make it a powerful means to "attain the end of their hope," by "perfecting holiness in the sight of God."

It is called the LENTEN OF SPRING FAST, because it wa appointed at that season of the year; and the proper observation of it consisted in such frequent exercises of FASTING, PRAYER, and HUMILIATION, with the other usual duties of attending the public service, receiving the Holy Communion, &c. as were most suitable to the circumstances of each individual, whose sincere use of their best endeavours would certainly be acceptable as a reasonable service to God, presented by our merciful High