The goddess then o'er his ancinted head, Something betwixt a heideggre and owl,) 290 "All hail! and hail again. My son the promis'd land expects thy reign. REMARKS. thor of some forgotten plays, translations, and other pieces. He was concerned in a paper called The Censor, and a translation of Ovid. "There is a notorious idiot, one Hight Whachum, who, from an under spur-leather to the "law, is become an under-strapper to the play house, who "hath lately burlesqued the Metamorphoses of Ovid by a "vile translation, &c. This fellow is concerned in an impertinent paper called The Censor." Dennis, Rem. on Pope's Homer, p. 9, 10. v. 286. Ozell.] "Mr. John Ozell," if we credit Mr. Jacob, "did go to school in Leicestershire, where somebody "left him something to live on, when he shall retire from "business. He was designed to be sent to Cambridge, in "order for priesthood; but he chose rather to be placed in "an office of accounts in the city, being qualified for the "same by his skill in arithmetic, and writing the necessary "hands. He has obliged the world with many translations " of French plays." Jacob, Lives of Dram. Poets, p 198. 295 Safe where no critics damn, no duns molest, And thou! his aid-de-camp, lead on my sons, REMARKS. 300 305 v. 296. Gildon.] Charles Gildon, a writer of criticisms and libels, of the last age, bred at St. Homer's with the Jesuits; but renouncing popery, he published Blount's books against the divinity of Christ, the oracles of reason, &c. He signalized himself as a critic, having written some very bad plays; abused Mr. P. very scandalously in an anonymous pamphlet of the Life of Mr. Wycherley, printed by Curl; in another called The New Rehearsal, printed in 1714; in a third, entitled The Complete Art of English Poetry, in two volumes; and others. v. 297. Howard.] Hon. Edward Howard, author of the British Princes, and a great number of wonderful pieces, celebrated by the late earls of Dorset and Rochester, duke of Buckingham, Mr. Waller, &c. Let bawdry, Billingsgate, my daughters dear, Gaming and Grub-street skulk behind the king. 310 And all be sleep as at an ode of thine!" 315 320 She ceas'd. Then swells the chapel-royal throat; God save king Cibber! mounts in ev'ry note. Familiar White's, God save king Colley! cries; . God save king Colley! Drury-lane replies: To Needham's quick the voice triumphal rode, REMARKS. v. 324. But pious Needham.] A matron of great fame, and very religious in her way, whose constant prayer it was that she might "get enough by her profession to leave it "off in time, and make her peace with God." But her fate was not so happy; for being convicted, and set in the pillory, she was, to the lasting shame of all her great friends and votaries, so ill used by the populace, that it put an end to her days. Back to the devil the last echoes roll, 325 329 Loud thunder to its bottom shook the the bog, |