Hill bavi fuit Pear geefe. Dangerou bang over So as to b bot fumm filled wit unfavora Extreme MISS V ftruction plants will no Apple-t Graftin fruit. profit m trees m effect. ducing ARGUMENT OF BOOK I. Subject propofed. Addrefs to the Natives of Herefordfhire. Dedication to MR. MOSTYN. Situation for an Orchard. Soil. Places famous for their Cider. King Ethelbert murdered by Offa at Sutton Walls. Account of Marcle Hill having moved. A foil not rich enough for Apples will fuit Pears. Very poor land will ferve to support sheep and geefe. Goats browse on the steepest mountains of Wales. Dangerous practice of gathering Samphire from rocks that bang over the Sea. The most barren land may be improved, fo as to be made capable of bearing Some produce. In very bot fummers trenches fhould be dug round Apple-trees, and filled with water; a long continuance of hot weather being unfavorable to the fruit. The unhealthiness of hot feafons. Extreme beat of the fummer in the year 1705. Death of MISS WINCHCOMB. Heat a caufe of Earthquakes. Deftruction of ARICONIUM. Some different forts of trees and plants will flourish when planted near together; but others will not. What forts of trees may be planted near the Apple-tree without injuring it, and what are noxious to it. Grafting. Different stocks proper for different forts of fruit. In the plantation of Orchards, ornament as well as profit may be attended to, and the different kinds of Appletrees may be intermixed with tafte, fo as to produce a pleafing effect. Virgil has finely diverfified his Georgics by introducing feveral beautiful digreffions and defcriptions.-Graft ing, Ferent forts of Apples. Pears. The Musk ed-ftreak Apple-cultivated and improved ORD SCUDAMORE. Compliment to his n. Excellence of Red-ftreak Cider. The - it fings its praifes, and thofe of its naGeneral fertility of Herefordshire. Its Iron, Saffron, Wool. Its Natives famous nguished at the battles of Creffy and Aginlarly the Ancestor of the noble family of Compliment to LORD CHANDOS, and his SALISBURY and to ALDRICH, Dean of --University of OXFORD.-SIR THOMR.BROMLEY. MEW, Bishop of WINUKE OF BEAUFORT. LORD WEYRLEY, Secretary of State.-Beauty of Females. Love. Friendship. TREVOR, Panegyric on Sincerity; -on Virtue in geneis of VIRGIL's character. - HOMER.ILTON ;-cenfured for his Politics, but Poetry, of which the Author profeffes him itator. s Virgil begins his GEORGICS; Quid faciat lætas fegetes, quo fidere terram Poet, for ORCHARD, writes OR CHAT, from the Greek Oparos, Homer ufes to exprefs the garden, or rather orchard, of Alcinous, seventh book of his ODYSSEY. in Miltonian verfe] dern blank verfe had its origin in the School of Italian Poetry.-year 1528, Triffino published his Italia Liberata di Goti, without Not a long time after this, the celebrated Earl of Surrey the firft fpecimen of English blank verfe, in a translation of the 1 and fourth books of the ENEID.- -The Dramatic Poets foon to lay afide rhyme: the firft example of which, and indeed the firft ar English tragedy, was the Earl of Buckhurft's GORBODUC; in 1, as well as in Surrey's tranflation from Virgil, there are many which Milton would not have difdained to own. Blank verfe, ver, made but little progrefs, except among the Dramatic writers; does not appear to have been adopted for any original compofition of equence. Milton is therefore juftified in faying (in the account e verfe of his PARADISE LOST, prefixed to that Poem) that he had e firft example, in English, of antient Liberty reftared to Heroic Poem the troublefome and modern bondage of rhyme. hilips was the firft Poet of any eminence who followed him in this of verfification, for which he is celebrated by Thomson. Philips, Pomona's bard, the fecond thou B AUTUMN, 640. He Adventurous I prefume to fing; of verse 5 He is alfo complimented on the fame account by a very able and elegant Poet, the prefent learned Provost of Eton College, in A Poetical Epistle to Chriftopher Anstey, Efq. on the English Poets, chiefly those who have written in Blank Verfe, published in the year 1772. After a very masterly opening, the Author thus addreffes Milton. 4. my foul, Poet of other times, to thee I bow Adventurous I presume to fing; of verse. Nor fkill'd, nor ftudious Thus Milton, in the opening of his PARADISE LOST; I thence Invoke thy aid to MY ADVENTUROUS SONG, That, with no middle flight, intends to foar Above th'Aonian mount And, in the beginning of his ninth book, having recited the common fubjects of Heroic Poems, fuch as wars, races, games, tilts and tournaments, feftivals and entertainments, he thus proceeds; |