nificent Gardens at Stowe, in Buckingham- To the Author of the Polite Philosopher ... 573 shire, the Seat of the right hon. Lord Cobham, To his Grace the Duke of Gordon on his (now of the Marquis of Buckingham.) 534 Return from Scotland........... 538 To the right hon. Susanna Countess of Eglin- Anniversary Ode to the Memory of a Daughter To the right hon. Charles, Lord Kinnaird ... 575 Stanzas from Albion's Triumph. An Ode on To Serena. An Epistle ib. The Vision of Patience. An Allegorical Poem. ib. Written in the ancient Palace of Falkland, Ode, to Mr. William Cumming, on his going To the Author of Universal Beauty Horace and Lydia, Book iii. Odle ix. imitated. ib. To Marcella ib. 543 On the Death of Mrs. Stuart of Cardiness, On the extraordinary Execution of Capt. John Translated from the Horti Arlingtoniani of To Amanda. Epistle II. To the hon. Lady Susanna Montgomery ib. To a young Lady on her Recovery. An Ode. 544 To Mr. Henry Tonge, Student in the Uni- To the hon. Sir John Clerk, Baronet, one of Vo ty ib. the Barons of his Majesty's Exchequer in To the same, with Nature, a Poem The Olive: an heroic Ode. Occasioned by the auspicious Success of his Majesty's Councils, and his Majesty's most happy TRANSLATIONS AND POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. Apollo and Daphne ib, Dedication to the Duke of Buccleugh 555 Psalm xlii. in Imitation of Spenser Lamentation of David for Saul and Jonathan 558 The Wish ... ib. Oratio Galgaci Ducis Britannici On the following Motto of an eminent fraudu- Responsio M. Catonis ad Labienum, de lent Bankrupt at Edinburgh : Cave. Catullus. (De Sepulcro suo) ib. Propertius. (De Uxoribus Indis).. 563 Stanzas occasioned by Mr. Pope's Transla- Ex Corn. Galli. Eleg. ii. (Ad Uxorem) ib. tion of Horace, Book iv. Ode i... Sannazarii Epigrammata in Venetiam ...... ib. To a young Lady, with a Translation from lo Mortein Jo. Bapt. Muliere, Histrionis ib. To a Lady, on a single Patch.... la Fontes Lutetiæ. Epigramma Santeuil ib. Inscription designed for a white marble In regiam Sagittariorum Cohortem, anno 1732. ib. To Semanthe. Ode Chanson de Moliere ib. Ode de Mesire Jaques Chastelard, Savoyard qui fut decapite a Edinbourg, pour l'A- 'The Descent of Orpheus: from Boethius... ib. On the military Procession of the royal ib. Company of Archers, at Edinburgh, July To a Gentleman, who, in a Poem describing a Lady's Person, omitted her Hand, which Foree of Love. A pastoral Essay.... 569 To Mr. Aikman, on a Piece of his Painting 570 The best Cosmetic for the Ladies Verses on seeing the Picture of Mary Queen Poems. Part III. Retreat of King Stanislaus, and the Surren- The Complaint On the Marriage of his royal Highness the The Author's Epitaph ib. ib Epitaph of the Author's Pather .............. ib. jb. ib. ib. ...... ib. THE LIFE OF MALLET, BY DR. JOHNSON. Op David Mallet, having no written memorial, I am able to give no other account than such as is supplied by the unauthorised loquacity of common fame, and a very slight personal knowledge. He was, by his original, one of the Macgregors, a clan, that became, about sixty years ago, under the conduct of Robin Roy, so formidable and so infamous for violence and robbery, that the name was annulled by a legal abolition; and when they were all to denominate themselves anew, the father, I suppose of this author, called himself Malloch. David Malloch was, by the penury of his parents, compelled to be Janitor of the High School at Edinburgh; a mean office, of which he did not afterwards delight to bear. But he surmounted the disadvantages of his birth and fortune ; for, when the duke of Montrose applied to the college of Edinburgh for a tutor to educate his sons, Malloch was recommended; and I never heard that he dishonoured his credentials. When his pupils were sent to see the world, they were intrusted to his care; and, having conducted them round the common circle of modish travels, he returned with them to London, where, by the influence of the family in which he resided, he naturally gained admission to many persons of the highest rank and the highest character, to wits, nobles, and statesmen. Of his works, I know not whether I can trace the series. His first production was William and Margaret'; of which, though it contains nothing very striking or difficult, be has been envied the reputation : and plagiarism has been boldly charged, but never prored. Not long afterwards he published The Excursion (1728); a desultory and capricious view of such scenes of nature as his fancy led him, or his knowledge enabled him, to describe. It is not devoid of poetical spirit. Many of his images are striking, and many of the paragraphs are elegant. The cast of diction seems to be copied from Mallet's William and Margaret was printed in Aaron Hill's Plain Dealer, No. 36, July 24, 1724. la its original state it was very different from what it is in the last edition of his works. |
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