Probationary odes for the laureatship Author:John Hawkins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: J. HE Following excellent obfervations on the Lyric Style, have been kindly communicated to the Editor by the Rev. Thomas Warton—They appear to have been taken a... more »lrrioft verbatim from feveral of the former works of that ingenious author ; Hot chiefly from his late edition of Milton'f Minora. We fincerely hope, therefore, that they may ferve the double purpofe of enriching the prefcnt colkcTiion, and of attracting the public attention to that very critical work from which they are principally traded. THOUGHTS ON ODE WRITING. ilAH MoXTrij Carmen, Cantus, Cantilena, Chanfon, Canzone, all fignify what Anglice we denominate ODE— Among the Greeks, Pindar; among the Latins, Horace; with the Italians, Petrarch ; with the French, Boileau; are the principes hujufce fcientiae Tom Killigrew took the lead in Englifh Lyrics; and indeed, till our own Mafon, was nearly unrivalled—Jofephus Miller too [ XV ii ] hath penned fomething of the Odaic, infer his Opera Mlnora. My grandfather had a MS. Ode on a Gillyflower, the which, as our family had it, was an efquifj'e of Gammer Gurton's: and I myfelf have feen various Cantilenes of Stephen Duck's of a pure relilh—Of Shad well, time hath little impaired the fame—Colley's Bays ruft cankereth not—Dr. Cafaubon mea- fures the Strophe by Anapaefts—In the Polyglott, the epitrotus primus is thfc metvimenfura.—I venture to recommend ' Waly, waly, up the bank," as no bad model of the pure Trochaic—There is alfo a little fimple ftrain, commencing " Saw ye my father, fawye my mother;" "which to my fancy, gives an excellent ratio of hendecafyllables.—Dr. Warton indeed prefers the Adonic, as incomparably the ireateft, ay, and the neweft poX-rye. pfyov.-—A notion too has prevailed, that the Black Joke, or MiXseppi/XAai AuQvxt is not the " cofa de...« less