Eclectic Review, MDCCCXVI. JULY-DECEMBER. NEW SERIES. VOL. VI. Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικην, ή την Επικούρειον τε CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY JOSIAH CONDER, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. SOLD ALSO BY DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE; AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, AND INNES, EDINBURGH. Page. Adams's Narrative of his residence at Tombuctoo, &c. 251 Adams's Inquiry into the Laws of different Epidemic Diseases, &c. Adams's Philosophical Treatise on the Hereditary Peculiarities of the Hu- Bonney's Life of the Rt. Rev. Father in God, Jeremy Taylor, D.D. Bishop 566 Chapman's Unlimited Invitations, in the Gospel Ministry, consistent with trine of Christ's Manifestation in the Flesh Chateaubriand's Monarchy according to the Charter Clarke's Commentaries on some of the most important Diseases of Chil- Clarke's Travels into various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Part II. Frost's Considerations on the Propriety of making a Remuneration to Wit- Greatheed's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Cowper, Esq. Hopkins's Memoirs of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, A.M. President of the Johnson's, Dr. John, Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Vol. III. Containing his Posthumous Poetry, and a Sketch of his Life 102, 206, 310, 414, 513, 622 Maltby's Lexicón Græco-Prosodiacum, Auctore T. Morell, S. T. P. : Memoirs of the early Life of William Cowper, Esq. Written by Himself of the Marchioness De Larochejaquelein - of the Revolutionists, and of the Present Ministry Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R. B. Sheridan Naiad a Tale. With other Poems Narrative of the Imprisonment and Escape of Peter Gordon, from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, for the Year 1815. Parts I. and II. (Chemical and Philosophical Papers) Poetic Mirror, or the Living Bards of Britain Report of the Committee for Investigating the Causes of the alarming In- crease of Juvenile Delinqueney in the Metropolis Ryder's, Bishop, Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester. Sketch of the Past and Present State of the Vaudois or Waldenses, inhabiting Wordsworth's Thanksgiving Ode, Jan. 18, 1816. With other Short Pieces THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1816. Art. I. 1. The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo. By Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureate, Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and of the Royal Spanish Academy of History. 12mo. pp. 232. 8 Plates. Price 10s. 6d.-Longman and Co. 1816. Thanksgiving Ode, January 18, 1816. With other Short Pieces, chiefly referring to recent Public Events. By William Wordsworth. 8vo. pp. 10, 52. Price 4s.-Longman and Co. 1816. T ought to occasion no surprise, that modern poets have rarely succeeded in the attempt to please or to interest, when ubjects of present political concern have been their theme. Seldom, very seldom are the feelings awakened by public events, f a nature to blend with the emotions of taste, or to admit E that pleasing exaggeration which it is the business of the et to produce. The poet himself, in venturing upon a political eme, finds it difficult to exercise the power of abstraction fficiently to enable him to select and combine the appropriate aterials for poetry, and still more difficult to carry the enusiasm of a cultivated mind into subjects, the familiar details which are often mean, painful, or disgusting. The time was, when the wreath of the victor was entwined the hand of the bard; and when the poet alternately wielded e sword, and recited in rude melody the songs of heroes., ut those times are gone by, we trust for ever. We do not lieve that the poet exists, who could succeed in making war, a present event, interesting to the imagination. As to deeds other times, battles fought before the invention of gunwder,-wars which have left us no legacy of taxes,-the thens and the griefs of which we have never had to feel; these it is very possible to render poetical enough; and by t sympathy with which genuine poetry inspires us, we may So far transported in imagination to those times, as to adopt. the moment the characteristic feelings of its heroes and rriors. But stronger sympathies than those awakened by poet, connect us with present events, and they are such as clude the indulgence of the fancy in scenes of modern war. VOL, VI, N. S. B |