learning which was opened to them, and carry the point so far as to think whatever excellent doctrine they had met with among pagan writers, had been stole from their conversation with the Jews, or from the perusal of these writings which they had in their custody. DIALOGUES UPON THE USEFULNESS OF ANCIENT MEDALS. ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO THE LATIN AND GREEK POETS. quoniam hæc ratio plerumque videtur LUCRETIUS, lib. iv. VERSES OCCASIONED BY MR. ADDISON'S TREATISE ON MEDALS. SEE the wild waste of all-devouring years! Perhaps by its own ruins sav'd from flame, Ambition sigh'd. She found it vain to trust Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile and Rhine: A small Euphrates through the piece is roll'd; And little eagles wave their wings in gold. The medal, faithful to its charge of fame, Poor Vadius, long with learned spleen devour'd, Theirs is the vanity, the learning thine, Touch'd by thy hand, again Rome's glories shine : Oh when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, |