INSULA KENNETHI, INTER HEBRIDAS. PARVA quidem regio, sed religione priorum Et summi accendat pectus amore boni. Quo vagor ulterius? quod ubique requiritur hic est, SKIA. PONTI profundis clausa recessibus, His, cura, credo, sedibus exulat; At non cavatâ rupe latescere, Exæstuantis pectoris impetum ODE DE SKIA INSULA. PERMEO terras ubi nuda rupes Saxeas miscet nebulis ruinas, Torva ubi rident steriles coloni Rura labores Pervagor gentes hominum ferorum, Inter erroris salebrosa longi, Fœda latescit. Inter ignotæ strepitus loquela, Quot modis, mecum, quid agat, requiro, Thralia dulcis? Seu viri curas, pia nupta mulcet, Sedula mentem. Sit memor nostri, fideique solvat Littora Skia. SPES. HORA sic peragit citata cursum ; Apr. 16, 1783. VERSUS, COLLARI CAPRÆ DOMINI BANKS INSCRIBENDI. PERPETUI, ambitâ bis terrâ premia lactis AD FOEMINAM QUANDAM GENEROSAM QUÆ LIBERTATIS CAUSE IN SERMONE PATROCINATA FUERAT. LIBER ut esse velim, suasisti, pulchra Maria : Ut maneam liber, pulchra Maria, vale. JACTURA TEMPORIS. HORA perit furtim lætis, mens temporis ægra Pigritiam incusat, nec minus hora perit. QUAS navis recipit, quantum sit pondusaquarum, Dimidium tanti ponderis intret onus. QUOT vox missa pedes abit horæ parte secunda ? Undecies centum denos quater adde duosque. Els BIPXION *. Εἶδεν ̓Αληθέση πρώην χαίρουσα γράφοντα *The Rev. Dr Thomas Birch, author of the History of the Royal Society, and other works of note. Q 3 Εἰς τὸ τῆς ΕΛΙΣΣΗΣ περὶ τῶν Ονειρων Αινιγμα In ELIZE ENIGMA. Quis formæ modus imperio? Venus arrogat audax QUI benignus crimina ignoscis, pater Facilisque semper confitenti ades reo, Aurem faventem precibus O præbe meis; Scelerum catenâ me laborantem gravè Eterna tandem liberet clementia, Ut summa laus sit, summa Christo gloria. The lady on whom these verses, and the Latin ones that immediately follow, were writen, is the celebrated Mrs Elizabeth Carter, who translated the works of Epictetus from the Greek. This and the three following articles are metrical versions of collects in the Liturgy; the first, of that, beginning, "O God, whose nature and property;" the 2d and 3d, of the collects for the 17th and 21st Sundays after Trinity; and the 4th, of the 1st collect in the communion service. |