" 471 h had given occasion rn from Leyden, 1745, as impelled, by his rage ious epistle to Pulteney, name of Curio, as the be ession, he first commenced here Dr. Stonehouse then and success, that a stranger I upon him. Akenside tried aving deafened the place with ed to Hampstead, where he re and then fixed himself in Lon 1 man of accomplishments like his. wn as a poet, but was still to make and would, perhaps, have been recies, but that Mr. Dyson, with an that has not many examples, allowed pounds a year. Thus supported, he in medical reputation, but never atxtent of practice, or eminence of popuan in a great city seems to be the mere une; his degree of reputation is, for the ly casual; they that employ him know not they that reject him know not his deficience. observer, who had looked on the transactions cal world for half a century, a very curious be written on the Fortune of Physicians TM. e appears not to have been wanting to his own he placed himself in view by all the common on entertained a very high idea of the varied learning and science y connected with the character of an accomplished physician, and armed of the physicians of this island, that "they did more good to d without a prospect of reward, than any profession of men whatever.", endship for Dr. Bathurst, and the most eminent men in the medical line of ay, is well known. See an epistle to Dr. Percival, developing the wide of knowledge over which a physician should expatiate, prefixed to Obserions on the Literature of the Primitive Christian Writers. ED. The res duced in.. May easy position, as whether su by the app's men, fearing will be for av quences of ce representation known, before and whose is ri despised. Both but both are not, In the revisal nce of expres"veil oon, by a under superfluity La sui." The words erceived; attention r. The reader wantimes amazed, and many turnings in the · went in. He remarked quires that praise should fabrication of his lines he other writer of blank verse: pauses are musical; but the is commonly too long contis not recur with sufficient freried on through a long interuses, and, as nothing is distinbered. blank verse affords from the neCase with the couplet, betrays luxuinto such self-indulgence, that they ge, ornament upon ornament, and are d to close the sense at all. Blank e, I fear, be too often found in descripargument loquacious, and in narration certainly poetical as it is not prosaick, and not vulgar. He is to be commended as tifices of disgust than most of his brethren g. He rarely either recalls old phrases, metre into harsh inversions. The sense, s words is strained, when "he views the Alpine heights;" that is, from mountains like d the pedant surely intrudes, (but when se without pedantry?) when he tells how re the stated round of time." lly known to the readers of poetry that he methods; he became a fellow of the Roval S obtained a degree at Cambridge; and was at the College of Physicians; he wrote little poetry lished, from time to time, medical essays and se he became physician to St. Thomas's hospital: be Gulstonian lectures in anatomy; but began to give Crounian lecture, a history of the revival of leani which he soon desisted; and, in conversation, eagerly forced himself into notice by an ambitious tion of elegance and literature. His Discourse on the Dysentery, 1764, was consi a very conspicuous specimen of Latinity, which en him to the same height of place among the schola possessed before among the wits; and he might, pe have risen to a greater elevation of character, but studies were ended with his life, by a putrid fever, Ju 1770, in the forty-ninth year of his age". Akenside is to be considered as a didactick and poet. His great work is the Pleasures of Imaginatin performance which, published as it was, at the ag twenty-three, raised expectations that were not very satisfied. It has undoubtedly a just claim to very par lar notice, as an example of great felicity of genius, uncommon amplitude of acquisitions, of a young stored with images, and much exercised in combining comparing them. With the philosophical or religious tenets of the auth I have nothing to do; my business is with his poetry. subject is well chosen, as it includes all images that ca strike or please, and thus comprises every species of poet cal delight. The only difficulty is in the choice of exa ples and illustrations; and it is not easy, in such exuberan of matter, to find the middle point between penury satiety. The parts seem artificially disposed, with sufficie coherence, so as that they tchange their places with out injury to the general A most curious and ori. Hardinge, in vol. viii. of Nic by Deng AKENSIDE. s are displayed with such inxus mind, and settles in the ear. I reaer versification, justice requires tha exemption which is ver y of closing the sense wit le cose. 1 |