As poet-translator, no big wig ranks stouter;

Of Address that's rejected he brings forth the spouter; And true second Pan with Apollo dares wager,

That with him young master shall stand forth en

gager;

For which, I'll avouch, the great lord of Parnass

Crowns Midas papa with the ears of an ass.

Architecturalists.

Θα τον ποιήσει μελι κανθαρος ἢ γωλα κωλωψ.
When the sky falls then shall we catch larks.

FROM Sounds sweetly blending that ravish the ear,
Let sculptors and architects labours appear;

Whose studies, I needs must with sorrow confess,
Confer not one grace on the old Grecian dress:
In grandeur, taste, (v) science, we lag far behind,
'Tis mere crucible's dross to the metal refined. (w)

(v) The late Mr. Wyatt, although possessing a considerable share of talent, had very glaring defects; indeed, I do not wish to be invidious, but it appears to me, generally speaking, that

if a grand idea happens to strike any living architect, it is not the effect of study, but rather flashes across the mind in a moment as by mere chance. I was once favoured with the sight of a design for a public building, by a young student of the name of Bond, which, for classic taste, I never saw surpassed; of this promising genius, however, though some years have now transpired, not a syllable has been said. Another architecturalist I must also record, in the person of Mr. Edward Aiken, some of whose compositions have fallen under my inspection that were testimonials of his worth, and the assiduous attention he had paid to all the leading principles of his profession.

Some years back there was a glimmering of hope that Britain would have produced a second Cleomenes, if not a Phidias, in the person of Mr. Proctor; but as his modesty was as great as his merit (and there exists no genuine talent without it), and his misfortunes being greater than both, he suffered himself to pine in want, rather than acquire comfort at the expense of what he deemed the dignity of his condition. At length Mr. West discovered him in a garret, in a state of starvation, modelling the calamity of Diomedes with all the fire of the Greek school: Mr. Proctor thus became relieved, and was favoured with the protection of Sir Abraham Hume; but the solacement came too late: the thread of nature was exhausted, and the unfortunate artist became a prey to death while preparations were making to send him to Rome.

(w) Perraut, who has gained immortal reputation as the great architect of the Louvre at Paris, was nevertheless subjected to the satirical lash of Boileau, merely because he happened to be brother of a very learned member of the French academy, between whom and the satirist there had been some literary wrangling, and for this alone has Boileau most ungenerously transmitted the name of Perraut to posterity with the character of a light and paltry architect.

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