and great industry, could not but produce fomething valuable. When he pleases leaft, it can only be faid that a good defign was ill directed. His tranflations of Northern and Welfh Poetry deferve praife; the imagery is preferved, perhaps often improved; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with fentiments to which every bofom returns an echo. The four ftanzas beginning Yet even these bones, are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here, perfuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. LYTTELTON. EORGE LYTTELTON, the fon GE of Sir Thomas Lyttelton of Hagley in Worcestershire, was born in 1709. He was educated at Eaton, where he was fo much distinguished, that his exercises were recommended as models to his fchool-fellows. From Eaton he went to Chrift-church, where he retained the fame reputation of superiority, and displayed his abilities to the publick in a poem on Blenheim. He was a very early writer, both in verfe and profe. His Progress of Love, and his Perfian Letters, were both written when he was |