POETICAL WORKS OF VINCENT BOURNE, M. A. CONSISTING OF ORIGINALS AND TRANSLATIONS. To which are added his LETTERS. "I love the memory of VINNY BOURNE. I think him a better A NEW EDITION-IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. OXFORD: Printed by N. Bliss, FOR R. BLISS, AND R. BLISS, JUN. F. C. & J. Rivington, Cuthell & Martin, J. Richardson, Cambridge. EXTRACT of a Letter from W. Cowper, Esq. to the Rev. W. Unwin. "I LOVE the memory of Vinny Bourne. I "think him a better Latin poet than Tibullus, "Propertius, Ausonius, or any of the writers in "his way, except Ovid, and not at all inferior to "him. I love him too, with a love of partiality, "because he was usher of the fifth form at West"minster, when I passed through it. He was so good natured, and so indolent, that I lost more "than I got by him; for he made me as idle as "himself. He was such a sloven, as if he had "trusted to his genius as a cloak for every thing "that could disgust you in his person; and in"deed in his writings, he has almost made amends "for all. His humour is entirely original-he can speak of a magpie or a cat, in terms so ex |