of the Ancients. This we rightly phrafe Doing hem into English, and Makin" them English; Two expreffions of great Propriety, the one denot3 our Neglect of the Manner bow, the other the ce and Compulfion with which it is brought nt. It is by virtue of this Style that Tacitus like a Coffee-Houfe Politician, Jofephus like Pritish Gazetteer, Tully is as fhort and smart a or Mr. Afgill, Marcus Aurelius is exce!fap, and honeft Thomas à Kempis as Tim and Polite as any preacher at court.

tnt.

3. The ALAMODE Style,

tine by being new, and has this happiness it, that it is as durable and extenfive as itic. Take fome examples of it, in iption of the Sun in a Mourning coach he death of Queen Mary.

· Phœbus now, as once for Phaeton,

las mafed his face, and put deep Mourning on; Dark Clouds his fable Chariot do furround,

And the dull Seeds ftaik o'er the melancholy round.

Of Prince Arthur's Soldiers drinking.

* While rich Burgundian wine, and bright Cham-
paign
Chafe from their minds the terrors of the main.

Amb. Philips. Pr. Arthur, p. 16.

(whence we alfo learn, that Burgundy and Cham-
paign make a man on shore despise a storm at sea.)
Of the Almighty encamping his Regiments.
'He funk a vast capacious deep,

Where he his liquid Regiments does keep,
Thither the waves file off, and make their way,
To form the mighty body of the fea;

Where they encamp, and in their station ftand,
Entrench'd in Works of Rock, and Lines of
Sand.

Of two Armies on the Point of engaging.
* Yon' armies are the Cards which both must play;
At least come off a Saver if you may:

Throw boldly at the Sum the Gods have set ;
Thefe on your fide will all their fortunes bet.

All perfectly agreeable to the present Customs and best Fashions of our Metropolis.

But the principal branch of the Alamode is the PRURIENT, a Style greatly advanced and honoured of late by the practice of perfons of the first Quality; and by the encouragement of the Ladies, not unsuccessfully introduced even into the Drawing-room. Indeed its incredible Progrefs and Conquefts may be compared to thofe of the great Sefoftris, and are every where known by the fame Marks, the images of the genital parts of men or • Lee, Sophon.

f Blackm. P civ. p. 261.

women.

It confifts wholly of metaphors drawn from two most fruitful fources or fprings, the very Bathos of the human body, that is to fay *** and *** Hiatus magnus lachrymabilis. * ***

And felling of Bargains, and double Entendre, and Κιβέρισμα. and Ὀλφέιλδισμο, all derived from the faid fources.

which confifts of the moft curious, affected, mincing metaphors, and partakers of the alamode.

As this, of a Brook dry'd by the Sun.
h Won by the fummer's importuning ray,
Th' eloping fream did from her channel stray,
And with enticing fun-beams fole away.

Of an eafy Death.

When watchful death fhall on his barceft look,
And fee thee ripe with age, invite the hook ;
He'll gently cut thy bending Stalk, and thee
Lay kindly in the Grave, his Granary,

Of Trees in a Storm.

Oaks whofe extended arms the winds defy,
The tempeft fees their firength, and fighs, and

paffes by.

Blackm. Job, p. 26.

i Ibid. p. 23.

* Denn.

Of Water fimmering over the Fire. 'The Sparkling flames raife water to a Smile, Yet the pleas'd liquor pines, and leffens all the while.

5. LASTLY, I fhall place the CUMBROUS, which moves heavily under a load of metaphors, and draws after it a long train of words. And the BUSKIN, or Stately, frequently and with great felicity mixed with the former. For as the first is the proper engine to deprefs what is high, fo is the

fecond to raise what is base and low to a ridiculous Vifibility: When both these can be done at once, then is the Bathos in perfection; as when a man is fet with his head downward, and his breech upright, his degradation is compleat: One end of him is as high as ever, only that end is the wrong one. Will not every true lover of the Profund be delighted to behold the most vulgar and low actions of life exalted in the following manner?

Who knocks at the Door?

For whom thus rudely pleads my loud-tongu'd gate, That he may enter ?--

See who is there?

Advance the fringed curtains of thy eyes,
And tell me who comes yonder.---

Anon. Toní. Misc. Part vi. p. 224.

m Temp.

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Shut the Door.

The wooden guardian of our privacy
Quick on its axle turn.---

Bring my Cloaths.

Bring me what Nature, taylor to the Bear,
To Man himself deny'd: She gave me Cold,
But would not give me Cloaths.----

Light the Fire.

Bring forth fome remnant of Promethean theft,
Quick to expand th' inclement air congeal'd
By Boreas' rude breath.---

Snuff the Candle.

Yon' Luminary amputation needs,
Thus fhall you farve its half-extinguif'd life.

Open the Letter.

= Wax! render up thy truft.--

Uncork the Bottle, and chip the Bread,
Apply thine engine to the fpungy door,
Set Bacchus from bis glassy prison free,
And firip white Ceres of her nut-brown coat,

Theob. Double Falfhood.