A pleafing form, where every grace combin'd,
With genius bleft, a pure enlighten'd mind;
Benevolence on all that fimiles bestow'd,
A heart that for her friends with love o'erflow'd:
In language skill'd, by fcience form'd to please,
Her mirth was wit, her gravity was ease.
Graceful in all, the happy mein she knew,
Which e'en to virtue gives the limits due;
Whate'er employ'd her, that fhe feem'd to chufe,
Her house, her friends, her business, or the Muse.
Admir'd and lov'd, the theme of general praise,
All to fuch virtue wifh'd a length of days:
But fad reverse! with flow confuming pains,
Th' envenom'd cancer revell'd in her veins ;
Prey'd on her fpirits-ftole each power away;
Gradual fhe funk, yet fmiling in decay:
She fmil'd in hope, by fore afflictions try'd,
And in that hope the pious Chriftian died.
Ingenio fublimis, vividus, verfatilis,
Oratione grandis, nitidus, venustus :
Hoc monumento memoriam coluit
Sodalium amor,
Amicorum fides,
Lectorum veneratio.
Elfiniæ in Hibernia natus MDCCXXIX.
Eblanæ literis inftitutus :
Londini Obiit MDCCLXXIV.
Hic conditur quod reliquum eft
Henrici Thrale,
Qui res feu civiles, feu domefticas, ita egit,
Ut vitam illi longiorem multi optarent,
Itá facras,
Ut quam brevem effet habiturus præfcire videretur;
Simplex, apertus, fibique femper fimilis,
Nihil oftentavit aut arte fictum, aut cura
elaboratum.
In fenatu, Regi patriæque
Fideliter ftuduit;
Vulgi obftrepentis contempor animofus,
Domi inter mille mercaturæ negotia
Literárum elegantiam minimé neglexit.
Amicis quocunque modo laborantibus,
Conciliis, auctoritate, muneribus, adfuit.
Inter familiares, comites, convivas, hofpites.
Tam facili fuit morum fuavitate
Ut omnium animos ad fe alliceret ;
Tam felici fermonis libertate,
Ut nulli adulatus, omnibus placeret.
Natus 1724. Obiit 1781.
Confortes tumuli habet Rodolphum patrem, ftrenuum fortemque virum, et Henricum filium unicum quem spei parentum mors inopina decennem proripuit.
Domus felix et opulenta quam erexit
Avus auxitque pater cum nepote decidit.
Abi Viator
Et vicibus rerum humanarum perfpectis,
Æternitatem cogita!
Tranflation of DRYDEN'S EPIGRAM on MILTON.
Quos laudet vates, Græcus, Romanus, et Anglus,
Tres tria temporibus fecla dedere fuis.
Sublime ingenium Græcus; Romanus habebat
Carmen grande fonans; Anglus utrumque tulit.
Nil majus Natura capit: clarare priores
Quæ potuere duos tertius unus habet.
EPILOGUE TO THE CARMEN SECULARE OF HORACE.
Performed at FREEMASON'S-HALL.
QUE faufta Romæ dixit Horatius,
Hæc faufta vobis dicimus, Angliæ
Opes, triumphos, et fubacti
Imperium pelagi precantes.
SUCH ftrains as, mingled with the lyre,
Could Rome with future greatness fire,
Ye fons of England, deign to hear,
Nor think our wishes lefs fincere.
May ye the varied bleffings fhare
Of plenteous peace and profp'rous war;
And o'er the globe extend your reign,
Unbounded mafters of the main.
Tranflation of a WELCH EPITAPH (in HER BERT'S TRAVELS) on Prince MADOCK.
INCLYTUS hic hæres magni requiefcit Oeni, Confeffas tantum mente manuque patrem; Servilem tuti cultum contempfit agelli,
Et petiit terras per freta longa novas.
Friendship, peculiar gift of heaven,
The noble mind's delight and pride,
To Men and Angels only given,
To all the lower world deny'd:
While love, unknown among the bleft,
Parent of rage and hot defires,
The human and the favage breast
Inflames alike with equal fires.
With bright but oft destructive gleam,
Alike o'er all his lightnings fly,
Thy lambent glories only beam
Around the fav'rites of the fky.
Thy gentle flows of guiltless joys
On fools and villains ne'er defcend;
In vain for thee the monarch fighs
And hugs a flatt'rer for a friend.
When virtues kindred virtues meet,
And fifter fouls together join,
Thy pleasures, permanent as great,
Are all transporting, all divine.
Oh! fhall thy flames then cease to glow
When fouls to happier climes remove?
What rais'd our virtue here below,
Shall aid our happiness above.
* First printed in the Gent. Mag. 1743. Afterwards in Mrs. Williams's Mifcellanies, and again in the Gent. Mag. 1785, with Dr.
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