thing that is the consequence of that coquetry, viz. She tosses, her head about with fo many fantastical airs, that the beholders cannot catch a glance—her face is too unfteady to be beheld. In the English verfe the paffage might run fome-how in this

manner.

For GLYCERA's radiant face I burn,

Purer and brighter than the Parian urn;

'I burn,-when with that giddy gay delight
She looks, and charms and cheats the gazer's fight.

June 4, 1750.

G. W.

Of INTELLECTUAL PLEASURE.

[A fecond ESSAY. See Number I.]

Quòd fi corporis gravioribus morbis vitæ jucunditas impeditur, quanto magis animi morbis impediri neceffe eft!

J

CICERO.

UCUNDITAS VITE, in the motto of this paper, must be

understood to fignify that noble and refined felicity of the foul, which arifes from intellectual Pleasure: if we apprehend it in any other fenfe, the affertation contained in the fentence is by no means true; fince fenfual Pleasure is rather advanced and augmented by that depravity of mind, thro' which her votary beholds his vicious purfuits under the appearance of real good. A deviation from virtue is indeed the great' and moft dangerous difeafe of the foul, by whofe influence the lofes the delicacy of her original frame, and becomes inured to thofe habits, which are deftructive of her real happiness and the defign of her creation.

In the former effay notice was taken of the advantages, which the foul may derive from the fubordinate affiftance of the

the body; it was then obferved, that unbridled appetites, and pain, and sickness, throw the mind off from her biass, interrupt her contemplations, and make her unfit for the delight arifing from the cool and undisturb'd enjoyment of the intellect. In the present paper I shall just hint fome reflections upon those more frequent and more invincible obftacles, which the foul meets with from the intellectual faculties themfelves, in which I fuppofe the paffions to be ingrafted and established.

The fpecific difference, between the nature of the foul and that of the body, naturally puts the former fomething upon its guard against the fnares of the latter. It is indeed too true, they frequently are united, and the divine fpark within us is oppreft and almost extinguished by the fenfual mixture it receives from our mortal mafs: yet, for the most part, reason and appetite maintain fome little ftruggle; the understanding difdains to give up all her dignity, and is victorious after many repulfes. The danger is infinitely greater from the foul herself when her own faculties begin to taint and be corrupted, when the paffions fwell themselves into vices, and when the power of thinking corrupts itself by remaining toọ much within, and not foaring upwards to those divine regions from whence she had her own original. Celestial contemplation is to the foul, what the air of one's native country is to the body, and envigorates it when all other remedies fail. It is an exercife which performs, in its divine excur fions, the fame fervice to the intellect, that walking or riding performs to the animal spirits, increasing their force, improving their operations, and ennobling their nature. The foul, which never thus exerts its powers, returns too frequently upon herself, ftagnates for want of her natural and proper nourishment; paffions and inclinations at random, whether good or evil, engrofs her intention, and the body becomes their counsellor and assistant.

The mind, when improved, brightened, and dignified by exalted fpeculations, will have an influence upon our bodies,

from

from whose union in the cause of religion and virtue intellec tual pleafure arifes. Her operations are not confined to things above the visible diurnal sphere, but, like the fun, illuminates every subject, and is then in her highest degree of perfection, when she can affimilate the objects fhe confiders to her own nature.

Purity of heart, and benevolence of temper, are the only means of attaining this happy turn of thought. The one comprehends those speculations which relate to heavenly operations, the attributes of God, and the furvey of his mercies, which none but the pure in heart can conceive or relifh; and to them thefe divine perfections unfold their charms with even additional luftre, as the rays of the fun encrease their force when collected in a mirror of chrystal. By the other we enjoy those more congenial subjects of intellectual pleasure, which arise from events within our common obfervation, the profperity of our friends, (for our own is too interested to deserve the name,) the virtues we obferve in others, the composure of the state, the fertility of the earth, and the operations of nature. But it will not be ever in our power to follow either of thefe ways, 'till we can gain that noble triumph over our paffions, which Sir THOMAS BROWNE fo touchingly defcribes in his Chriftian Morals ; Still Anger walks hanging down the head, till Malice goes ❝manacled, and Envy fetter'd after us, till we lead our own

captivity captive, and are Cæfars within ourselves."

When this conqueft is gained, the pleasures of the intellect will open to our view a new world of beauties, fatisfying our thirst of knowledge, and demanding our attention, equally folid and substantial in our ferious, pleafing and entertaining in our gayer hours. We fhall not be then indebted to a combination of events, or the actions of others, for our happiness; but every obfervation, every incident will encrease the stock of our contemplations: we shall be pleased with the fuccefsful opening of a flower, and behold with refined pleafure a field waving with grain, tho' the ground be

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longs to another: the fucces of the virtuous will put us in humour with this world, while the profperity of the wicked will naturally incline the ftream of our thoughts towards a better. The fame turn of reflection, which thus collects all the scattered and (by themselves) inconsiderable advantages of life into a regular fyftem of felicity, will likewife disperse all difagreeable circumftances, and reduce them to nothing by dividing their forces.

INTRODUCTION to a new SYSTEM

C

CASTLE-BUILDING.

of

ASTLE-BUILDING, or the science of aerial architecture, is of much too vague a nature to be comprehended in a concife regular definition: but for the fake of custom and method, I define it to be, the craft of erect ing baseless fabricks in the air, and peopling them with pro▴ per notional inhabitants for the employment and improvement of the understanding. I believe I may venture to affirm, this is the only art of the circle, where the theory and practice are one and the fame thing. It is likewife of the most undoubted antiquity, fince it is older than the creation, the Devil himself being a very great CASTLE-BUILDER. But I would not be understood to fuggeft by this any thing to the disadvantage of the fcience; nil prodeft quod nori ladere poffit idem; every art may be and has been abused. The ufe of CASTLE-BUILDING is univerfal, and there are many hours in life, that without it would be infupportable. The poets (who by the bye are the greatest CASTLE BUILDERS in the world) would tell you, that there is a goddefs, who is patronefs of this art; that he was the daughter of Imagination by Vanity; and that Jove sent her upon earth as a kind of ANTI-PANDORA, to eafe every diforder, and supply every defect in nature. But to leave

thefe

these nonfenfical gentlemen to their crambo-work, and to talk a little common fense, it is certainly an infallible remedy for many inconveniences in life. RUFUS is perhaps of all the husbands in England the most hag-ridden by his wife and yet, by his admirable proficiency in this art, at the very time BRANDELINDA is fcolding at him and beating him, he can fancy himself a sultan, reclining on a velvet sofa, with his flaves and his mutes about him. A thousand instances parallel to this I fhall have occafion to mention in the progrefs of my work, which I shall divide into chapters; they having the fame effect as partition in orations, which, QUINTILIAN fays, relieve and entertain the reader in the fante manner as the mile-ftones do the traveller. But my reader will have a particular advantage, for he'll have a month's reft between every chapter; so fhould I be ever fo dull, and fatigue him ever fo much, he will have time enough to bait his horse, fmoak a pipe with my landlord, and kits the chamber-maid, if he pleafes. Imuft not conclude this introduction without affsuring the publick, that in the course of this fyftem I fhall have the affiftance of a very ingenious perfon of the lovelier and better fex: fo that, however poorly I fucceed in my part of the undertaking, the ladies may be certain of a great deal of pleasure every now and then from a charming authorefs, who will do immortal honour to the petticoat. I intend to fubjoin, by way of fupplement, a compleat lift of the moft eminent CASTLE-BUILDERS, with a chronological hiftory of their atchievements, from Babel down to a certain great bridge, which fhall be given gratis to the purchafers of the STUDENT, and my own picture, like the ftatue of MERCURY in the fable, fhall be thrown into the bargain.

CHIMERICUS CANTABRIGIENSIS.

ODE