| 23 | y − no + e = √y2+ey—268+ — + 1⁄2 e 4 24y+Vy+268 + · 25 a = yne + e nete ey =y-ne + e S 26 2 A Question in Anatomy. By D. R.: THE blood is faid to be conveyed from the ventricles of the heart to all parts of the body by the arteries, and from thence back again by the veins. Query, when a limb is cut off, how does the blood communicate itself from the arteries to the veins. The U The BRITISH MUSE: CONTAINING Select Pieces from the most celebrated ENGLISH Poets, &c. NTO thee, Wisdom, to thy facred fhade They know no joy but that which fame ac- And fome there are whom gentler paffions move, That think all happiness depends on love. That in purfuit of knowledge e'er employ'd, toys, And various change of momentary joys, The only foother to a human breast, After our journey through this maze is done, Before I found out, What you was about G A Morning Hymn. As thou hast been, fo may'ft thou still, 2. When cover'd by the midnight gloom, And veil'd in fhades of night; The curtains of Almighty love Were drawn around my bed; 4. 5. Bless God, my foul, whose power divine As each return of day declares So may each day my thanks renew, And may I carefully purfue K. T. An Infcription on a Tomb. U No guilt, no fordid av rice made it more; By your Jacks, your Jews, and your Turks With honeft fame, and fober plenty crown'd, 2. Who joys to hear the fighs fincere ; Who melts to fee the tender tear : From each ungentle paffion free, O be the maid that's made for me. 3. 2. Even he, whofe life is uncorrupt, And ne'er from virtue does depart; Who ever with right reason acts, And truth flows from his upright heart. 3. Whofe heart with gen'rous friendship glows; He, who is never meanly wont Be fuch the maid that's made for me. 4. Whofe fimple thoughts devoid of art, Avaunt, ye light coquets, retire Pfalm XV. imitated. 1. Gracious Lord, what living man Thy throne beatify'd fhall fee? Or who afcend thy holy hill, His neighbours tender name to ftain ☛ Who knows not how to do amifs, Nor flanders in his breaft retain. He, who thinks humbly of himself, He, who does innocently fwear, 6. Nor robs the innocent, himfelf Eugenio To the Proprietors of the UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. GENTLEMEN, The Reputation, which the late Poet Mr. Thompson has merited by his ex cellent Compofitions, might be fufficient to recommend his pofthumous Tragedy of Coriolanus: But as every Reader may not have Leifure to confider this Part of his Labour for the Entertainment and Inftruction of the Public, I beg Leave to publish the following Remarks on it, by the univerfal Channel of your Magazine, who am yours, &c. SAPPHO. Remarks on Mr. Thompson's Tragedy of Coriolanus: With a curious Reprefentation of the fame engraved in Copper. R. Thompson intending, as I prefume, to correct the unnatural attempts of bafe minds, who are ready to facrifice their country to a private refentment, or to their own infatiable ambition, forewarns them of the miferable end of fuch Trayters, by producing upon the ftage the real character, certain hiftory, and tragical end, of the Roman General Caius Marcius Coriolanus. In the confufions, which the change of government in the Roman ftate, firft from Monarchy to Ariftocracy, and at laft to Democracy, railed; the Volfci, a neighbouring people, and envious of the grandeur of Rome, refolved to attempt its ruin, and to ferve themselves of its inteftine broils. They invaded the Roman territories but were as often repulfed by the Romans; who, feeing their country attacked, had wifdom and honefty enough to lay afide and stifle all private pique and animofities for the prefent, and to unite against the common enemy. It was in these wars that the Hero of this drama obtained the triumphant furname of Coriolanus, who was an eminent Patrician, and Commander under the Conful Cominius at the fiege of Corioli, the capital of the Volfci: where, obferving that the troops detached by the Conful to fcale the walls were repulfed in their first attack, and had |