Cofmopolity of Literature.

KHAN of Tartary admired the art of Molière, and discovered the Tartuffe in the Crimea; and had

this ingenious Sovereign furvived the tranflation which he ordered, the immortal labour of the comic fatirift of France might have laid the foundations of good taste even among the Turks and the Tartars. We fee the Italian Pignotti referring to the opinion of an English critic, Lord Bolingbroke, for decifive authority on the peculiar characteristics of the hiftorian Guicciardini : the German Schlegel writes on our Shakepeare like a patriot: and while the Italians admire the noble scenes which our Flaxman has drawn from their great Poet, they have rejected the feeble attempts of their native artifts. Such is the wide and the perpetual influence of this living intercourse of literary minds.—D'ISRAELI.

Covetoufnefs.

SET never fo much probability hang on one fide of a covetous man's reasoning, and money on the other, it is eafy to forefee which will outweigh.-LOCKE.

2. HE that is envious or angry at a virtue that is not his own; at the perfection or excellency of his neighbour, is covetous, not of the virtue but of the reward and reputation; and then his intentions are polluted. JEREMY TAYLOR.

3. HE that takes pains to ferve the ends of covetousness, or minifters to another's luft, or keeps a fhop of impurities or intemperance is idle in the worft fenfe.-Ibid.

4. SEE the reward of covetousness; it is cheap in its offers, momentary in its poffeffion, unfatisfying in the fruition, uncertain in the stay, fudden in its departure, horrid in the remembrance, and a ruin, a fad and miferable ruin is in the event.-Ibid.

5. COVETOUSNESS debafeth a man's fpirit,

and finketh it into the earth.-ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON.

6. COVETOUSNESS is a moft obliging leveller; it mingles the great and the small with wonderful condefcenfions, and makes Lords and valets company for one another. It will folicit in the meaneft office and submit infamous disguise. It turns lions into jackalls, engages honour in the most scandalous intrigues, and makes it underputter to cheats and sharpers.-JEREMY COLLIER.

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7. THE Covetous man has many tools to work with. If Deceit fuits his purpose he will use it to the best of his skill; if Cruelty will fave a penny, he will not hesitate to kill a poor debtor for the price of his skin. No turn, either in State or Religion, can hurt him; he receives any impreffion and runs into any mould the times will give him. He is a Christian at Rome, a Heathen at Japan and a Turk at Conftantinople; what you will without and nothing within.-Ibid.

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Critics.

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IF you would fucceed as a critic, you must deal with an author as would with an enemy; the beacon, draw down the posse at the first landing, and charge him while he is ftaggering on the beach. To give him

time to feel his limbs and to march, may be of ill confequence; he may be joined by his friends and gain upon the country, and then it may be too late to ftop his progress. JEREMY COLLier.

2. WHERE an author has many beauties confiftent with virtue, piety and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves and shower down their ill nature.-Watts.

3. THERE is not a Greek or Latin critic, who has not shown, even in the style of his criticisms, that he was a mafter of all the eloquence and delicacy of his native tongue.

Criticism.

RITICISM, as it was firft inftituted by Ariftotle, was meant a ftandard of judging well. — DR. JOHNSON.

2. IF ideas and words were diftinctly weighed and duly confidered, they would afford us another fort of logic and criticism, than we have been hitherto acquainted with. LOCKE.

3. MEANWHILE Momus bent his flight to the region of a malignant deity, called CRITICISM. She dwelt on the top of a fnowy mountain, where Momus found her extended in her den, upon the spoils of numberlefs volumes half devoured. At her right hand fat IGNORANCE, her father and husband, blind with age; at her left PRIDE, her mother dreffing her up in fcraps of paper herself had torn. There was OPINION, her fifter, light of foot, hood-winked and head-strong, yet giddy and perpetually turning. About her played her children, NOISE and IMPUDENCE, DULNESS and VANITY, POSITIVE