Utque suas pejus meliùsve obit utraque partes,
Hinc Bona proveniunt, fons ducitur inde Molorum.
Urget Amor nostri stimulus, movet intus agitque
Ingem animæ; Ratio stabili regit æqua bilance:
Ni ciat illa, Hominem Socordia lenta teneret ;
Ni regat hæc, traheret necquicquam cæca Voluntas.
Aut Plantæ in morem terrâ gaudentis eâdem,
Tantùm aleretur iners, fœtum ederet, atque periret;
Aut rueret sine more, exlex ut in æthere flamma,
Seque aliosque vago disperderet inscius igne.
Vim motricem Animæ valido natura vigore Aptavit, stimulare hominem atque accendere natam : Pacis amans tacitè sedet Arbitra, Factaque secum Perpendens, monitis regit, imperioque coercet. Altera, ut objectum propius, violentior ardet; Dum vigiles oculorum acies procul altera tendit : Illa bono capitur præsenti; hæc provida seros Prospicit eventus longèque futura tuetur. Cingimur illecebris, paucis defendimur armis; Consilioque valet quamquàm Arbitra; robore præstat Vivida vis animæ: quæ ne exerat acriùs ignem Ingenitum, cultu assiduo et Ratione Magistrà Utendum longo Experientia crescet ab usu, Quæ Rationem armet, Nostrâ compescat Amorem. Hos rixæ studiosa paret discindere amicos Turba Sophistarum: efficiatque ut Gratia pugnet Virtuti, ut Sensû Ratio; temeraria lites Dum serit insanas, artemque ostentat inanem : Quos, ubi sæpe grave exercent de nomine bellum, Aut nihil, aut omnes unà sentire videbis. At Ratio, Nostrumque in nos amor insitus, unum Affectant finem, impulsuque sequuntur eodem Blanda voluptatis, fugiuntque Doloris amara : Sed Flores hic dente avido vorat; altera cautis Mella bibit labris, neque germina mollia lædit.
Summam animi pacem, verè intellecta, Voluptas
Parturit; infandos aliter fert ipsa Doloris.
Huic Nostrum ingenito servire videntur amori
Pectoris affectus : aut verum, aut æmula veri
Umbra boni quemque urget: at omnia participare
Cum nequeunt, Ratioque monet nos quærere nostra ;
Affectus, qui se solùm et sua commoda curant,
Dummodo Fas servent, Rationis castra sequuntur;
Qui sese diffundere amant generosius, auctum
Nobilitant genus, et Virtutum nomina ducunt.
1 FROM MR. POPE, requesting Mr. Spence to return
his letters, and containing general expressions of
regard
2 From MR. CHRISTOPHER PITT, enclosing a Pro-
logue........
3 From MR. ROBERT DOWNES.-Observations on the
prevalence of Free-thinking in the University of
Oxford;-attributed to the predominance of Ma-
thematical Studies........
4 From DR. EDWARD YOUNG.-Introducing Thomson
the Poet to Mr. Spence....
5 From STEPHEN DUCK.-Account of an interview
between him and Curll........
6 From MR. A. SMYTH.-Account of a Riot in Lon-
don, occasioned by a drunken frolic of Lord Mid-
dlesex and some friends, on the 30th of January... 391
7 From THE SAME.-On the same subject............... 392
8 From LORD MIDDLESEX.-On the same subject.... 395
9 From MR. SPENCE TO HIS MOTHER: from Turin,
Account of the representation of a Mystery, en-
titled The Damned Soul. This representation is
also mentioned by Gray in one of his Letters....... 397
10 From THE SAME TO THE SAME.-Humorous ac-
count of an Italian Surgeon.....
11 From THE SAME TO THE SAME.-Account of An-
drey, a Frenchman, one of the Adepts or Alche-
mical Impostors........
12 From HORACE WALPOLE.-Professions of friend-
ship-and enclosing Verses by Pope.......
13 From THE EARL OF ORFORD (Sir R. Walpole), To
COL. CHURCHILL.-Invitation to country quiet
14 From MR. W. CARR TO MR. SPENCE.-Account of
the revival of a drowned man at St. Neots........... 408
15 From MR. N. HERBERT.-On the rescuscitation of
drowned persons.........
16 From THE SAME.-Demosthenes' cure for stammer-
ing-Essayed.-Origin of the term Quack.......... 409
17 From THE REV. GLOSTER RIDLEY.-Dr. Lowth's
Poem the Judgment of Hercules.-The Samothra-
cian Mysteries.-The Cabiri...........
18 From THE SAME, with part of his Poem in Imitation
of Spenser, sent as a fragment of an old MS....... 416
19 From THE SAME.-Reply to Observations on the
Imitation of Spenser.......
20 From MR. EDWARD ROLLE.-Superstitious story of
deaths foretold by passing through a church porch. 422
21 From MR. WHEELER.-Account of Mr. Keirl, The
Man of Ross..........
22 From MR. ROBERT DODSLEY.-Observations on
retirement.............
23 From THE SAME.-Enclosing a Love Song............ 427
24 From MR. ROBERT WOOD.-Account of his intend-
ed tour in Greece-soliciting hints from Mr.
Spence...........
25 From DR. ROBERT LOWTH, from Turin.-Account
of the death of Count Richa........
26 From THE SAME.-Princess of Carignan.-Sig. Pa-
derni. Preparations for publishing the Antiquities
of Herculaneum.-Sig. P.'s opinion of the Polymetis 433
27 From STEPHEN DUCK.-Appointed chaplain to a
regiment of dragoons,-his verses to his censors
on that occasion
28 From THE SAME.-Further particulars of the Man
of Ross..........
29 From HORACE WALPOLE.-Translation of Illam
quicquid agit, from Tibullus.-Inscription on a
neglected column at Florence.........
30 From MR. EDWARD ROLLE.-Gipsy prediction.— ́
Addition to salary of the Poetry Professor at Ox-
ford.-Increase of students at New College......... 441
31 From THE SAME, from Mayence-Passage of the
Alps.-Comforts of travelling in Germany.-The
Tyrol.-Mount Brenner.-Of the Rhine,-its junc-
tion with the Moselle..........
32 From MR. HOOKE, JUN.-Enclosing verses to Mr.
Spence.......
33 From DAVID HUME.-Account of Mr. Blacklock,
&c. ......
34 From MR. ROBERT HILL.-Thanks for Mr. Spence's
benevolence, and enclosing an Enquiry into the
Nature of Apparitions.....
35 From MR. JONES.-Invitation to Welwyn from Dr.
Young, and promise of particulars relating to the
Life of Richardson.........
36 From LORD MELCOMBE TO DR. YOUNG.-En-
closing Verses to him, and an Ode......
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