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mundane point, it cannot reasonably have any thing to do with the ecliptic, further than where its pole or horary circle intersects the ecliptic, it may be said to be ruled by that planet which governs the sign where it falls; and in fact the Placidian method of taking the part of fortune, carries absurdity on the face of it: for it will, by always allowing it to have the same declination as the Moon, frequently form a contradiction which nothing can reconcile: for instance, by the Placidian method the Moon may be in Cancer, and the part of fortune happen in Capricorn, and yet they would allow them both to have north declination, which of itself is sufficiently absurd; but to suppose, as some authors do, that it should be allowed the same latitude as the Moon, and also the same declination, is quite preposterous; for instance, if the Moon were in ten degrees of Virgo, and the part of fortune in twenty degrees of Libra, if the Moon had no latitude they would allow them both the same declination, but it is clear that one point is north of the equator and the other south; and it must be evident by giving five degrees north latitude to each of those places it would increase the declination of one, and lessen that of the other; therefore it is full time for such doctrine to be exploded.

dane distance from the ascendant; for if the Sun should be on the ninth, and the Moon on the tenth, or the Sun on the second, and the Moou on the third, the part of fortune would still be on the cusp of the second, by the Moon being the space of one house in advance from the Sun, and as the Moon recedes from the Sun by the quickness of her motion, so the part of fortune keeps moving in succession through all the houses from the first to the second, and so on to the twelfth, till the Moon overtakes the Sun, and then the horoscope or ascendant becomes also the Lunar horoscope; the part of fortune being always on the ascendant when the Sun and Moon are rising or setting together upon the same horary circle.

The following are the characters of the aspects as given by Placidus, Partridge, Lilly, Coley, and other authors

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The above are the whole allowed by Placidus to have any considerable effect; and it will be seen that the semiquartile is properly expressed by the quartile divided in halves, and the sesquiquadrate by a quartile and half of another, and the biquintile or twice 72 degrees is two hearts reversed as the quintile is one.

BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD SAVAGE.

Continued from p. 216.

THESE necessities sometimes forced him upon disreputable practices, to which the following lines from The Wanderer:

Though misery leads to happiness and truth,
Unequal to the load, this languid youth,
(O! let none censure, if untried by grief,
If amidst woe, untempted by relief)

He stoop'd reluctant to low arts of shame,

Which then, even then, he scorn'd, and blush'd to name.

Yet his distresses, however afflicting, never dejected him; in his lowest state he wanted not spirit to assert the natural dignity of wit, and was always ready to repress that insolence which the superiority of fortune inflated, and to trample on that reputation which rose upon any other basis than that of merit, he never admitted any gross familiarities, or submited to be treated otherwise than as an equal. This invincible behaviour, whether firmness or obstinacy, appeared in his conduct towards Lord Tyrconnel, to whom, when he wrote, it was not in a style of supplication or respect, but of reproach, menace, and contempt; and appeared determined, if he ever regained his allowance, to hold it by the right of conquest only.

The great hardships of poverty were to Savage not the want of lodging or food, but the neglect and contempt it drew upon him. He complained that as his affairs grew desperate, his reputation for capacity declined: his opinion in questions of criticism was no longer regarded when his coat was out of fashion, and he was no longer thought qualified for any performance but his annual ode to the queen.

He now revived the plan of publishing his works by subscription, but, with the exception of a few guineas from the hand of pity, it failed, and he dropped the idea, spending his time in mean expedients and tormenting suspence, living for the greatest part in fear of prosecutions from his creditors, and consequently skulking in obscure parts of the town, of which he was no stranger to

the remotest corners. But wherever he came his address secured him friends whom his necessities soon alienated.

He was always ready to comply with every invitation, no man therefore had a more extensive acquaintance, for by his dining with one company he never failed of obtaining an introduction to another. It is a remarkable trait in his character, that though his life was thus dissipated and distressed, the distraction of his views did not hinder him from reflection, nor the uncertainty of his condition depress his gaiety.

After the death of the queen he resolved to write a second tragedy upon the story of Sir Thomas Overbury, in which he preserved a few lines of his former play, but made a total alteration in the plan; by this he was buoyed up in the expectation of future riches, but did not neglect the necessary steps to secure a continuance of his pension, and wrote a poem to her memory, which Dr. J. says may be justly ranked among the best pieces the death of princes has produced. It however failed of the desired effect.

His distress was now publicly known, and his friends proposed to raise him an annuity of fifty pounds by subscription, upon which he gladly agreed to retire into Wales. They intended his absence from London to be for life, but he designed only to take the opportunity which their scheme offered him of retreating for a short time, that he might prepare a new edition of his tragedy founded on the story of Sir Thomas Overbury, for the stage, after which he intended to return to London to exhibit it, and to live on the profits of his labour.

While this scheme was ripening his friends directed him to take a lodging within the liberties of the Fleet, that he might be secure from his creditors; and sent him

every Monday a guinea, which he regularly spent before the next morning.

He now began sensibly to feel the miseries of dependence. He was prescribed to with an air of authority, and it must be owned very indelicately; inasmuch, his friends instead of consulting him, they proposed to send for a tailor to measure him, and then to hold a consultation among themselves how he was to be equipped. Upon hearing of which he went to the lodgings of a friend in the most violent agonies of rage, and being asked what it could be that gave him so much disturbance, he replied with the utmost vehemence of indignation, "That they had sent for a tailor to measure him."

After many alterations and delays, a subscription was at length raised, which did not amount to 50l. a year, of which Mr. Pope paid 201.! little enough to subsist on in the cheapest part of the country; but Savage, however, was satisfied, and willing to retire, and resolving to live according to the exactest rules of frugality; which resolution, however, like every other salutary one made by him, was soon broken. He set off towards Swansea with fifteen guineas in advance, which were spent before he left Bristol, and he was compelled to solicit a fresh supply to enable him to reach the place of his destination, where, however, he did not continue long. With an intent to return to London, he went to Bristol, where his peculiar misfortunes caused him to be received with kindness. He was not only caressed and treated, but a collection made for him of 301. His misconduct there, however, as it had done in London, tired all his friends, and at last he saw himself reduced to wander about the town slighted and neglected, and in quest of a dinner, which he did not always obtain: and, to complete his misery, pursued by

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