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all things recommend . As far as our language would allow them, they have formed a paſtoral ſtyle according to the Doric of Theocritus, in
which I dare not ſay they have excelled Virgil ! but I may be allowed, for the honour of our lan
guage, to ſuppoſeit more capable of that pretty ruſticity than the Latin . To their works Ì refer my reader to make obſervations upon the paſtoral
ſtyle: where he will ſooner find that ſecret than from a folio of criticiſms* .
- Probably by Mr. T. Tickell, with ſome ſlight aſliſtance
from Addiſon, who about this time was giving the laſt poli ture to his Cato. See Nº 15. 22. 23. 28 . 33 and 40. and notes.
" *** This day is publiſhed the life and character of M. P. Cato, collected from Plutarch in the Greek , and from Lucan , Salluft, Florus, and other authors, in the Latin tongue. Pr. 6d.
N. B. On the 14th of April, 1713, the Tragedy of Cato was acted for the firſt time. The prologue and epilogue written by Dr. Garth and Mr. Pope. Guard. in folio. Nº 29. and N° 30.
N° 31. Thurſday, April 16, 1713. By Mr. E. BUDGELL . Juv . Sat. x . 357 . Fortem poſce animum Aſk of the gods content and ſtrength of mind .
My lady Lizard is never better pleaſed than when ſhe fees her children about her engaged in any profitable diſcourſe. I found her laſt night ſitting in the midſt of her daughters, and form ing a very beautiful femi-circle about the fire . I
immediately took my place in an elbow chair, which is always left empty for me in one corner.
