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 own mind, what is left in a eeming poture of neglect and inconnexion."

If therefore the delineation of the character of the Man of Birth, who, with every advantage of natural abilities and amiable dipoition, is at once lot to the Public and Himelf, if this character has its beginning, middle, and end, the Poem has all the unity that propriety requires: how far uch unity is attained, may perhaps be een at one view in the following Argument.

After an innovation to the Genius of Spener, and propoition of the ubject, the Knight's firt attachment to his Concubine, his levity, love of pleaure, and diipation, with the influence over him which on this he aumes, are parts which undoubtedly contitute a jut Beginning.

The effects of this influence, exemplified in the different parts of a gentleman's relative character,—in his dometic elegance of park, gardens, and houe—in his unhappines as a lover, a parent, and a man of letters—behaviour as a mater to his tenants, as a friend, and a brother—and in his feelings in his hours of retirement as a man of birth, and a patriot, naturally complete the Middle, to which an allegorical catatrophe furnihes the proper and regular End.

Some reaons, perhaps, may be expected for having adopted the manner of Spener. To propoe a general ue of it were indeed