AD INSIGNISSIMUM VIRUM

D. THO. BURNETTUM,

SACRE THEORIE TELLURIS AUTOREM.

NON usitatum carminis alitem,
BURNETTE, poscis, non humiles modos:
Vulgare plectrum, languidæque
Respuis officium camœnæ.

Tu mixta rerum semina conscius,
Molemque cernis dissociabilem,
Terramque concretam, et latentem
Oceanum gremio capaci:

Dum veritatem quærere pertinax.
Ignota pandis, sollicitus parum
Utcunque stet commune vulgi
Arbitrium et popularis error.
Auditur ingens continuo fragor,
Illapsa tellus lubrica deserit
Fundamina, et compage fracta
Suppositas gravis urget undas.
Impulsus erumpit medius liquor,
Terras aquarum effusa licentia
Claudit vicissim; has inter orbis
Relliquiæ fluitant prioris.
Nunc et recluso carcere lucidam
Balæna spectat solis imaginem,
Stellasque miratur natantes,
Et tremulæ simulacra lunæ.
Quæ pompa vocum non imitabilis!
Qualis calescit spiritus ingeni!

Ut tollis undas! ut frementem Diluvii reprimis tumultum! Quis tam valenti pectore ferreus Ut non tremiscens et timido pede Incedat, orbis dum dolosi Detegis instabiles ruinas? Quin hæc cadentum fragmina montium Natura vultum sumere simplicem Coget refingens, in priorem

Mox iterum reditura formam. Nimbis rubentem sulphureis Jovem Cernas; ut udis sævit atrox hyems Incendiis, commune mundo

Et populis meditata bustum! Nudus liquentes plorat Athos nives, Et mox liquescens ipse adamantinum Fundit cacumen, dum per imas Saxa fluunt resoluta valles. Jamque alta cœli moenia corruunt, Et vestra tandem pagina (proh nefas!) BURNETTE, vestra augebit ignes, Heu socio peritura mundo. Mox æqua tellus, mox subitus viror Ubique rident: En teretem globum! En læta vernantes Favoni

Flamina, perpetuosque flores! O pectus ingens! O animum gravem, Mundi capacem! si bonus auguros, Te, nostra quo tellus superbit, Accipiet renovata civem.

FINIS.

J. Swan, Angel Street, London.

INDEX

TO VOL. VI.

A.

ACETES, his story, 161, 187.

Actæon, transformed into a stag, 147, 181, 182.,

Æneid III, translation of a story in it, 44, &c.

Esculapius, his birth, 129.

Ætna, description of its eruptions, 14, 44.

Aglauros transformed into a statue, 135.

Albula river described, 35.

Augustus, Horace's ode upon his design to rebuild Troy, 107.

Bacchus, his birth, 150.

B.

Barometer, its description in a Latin poem, 427.

Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes, a Latin poem, 429.

Battus transformed into a touch-stone, 134.

Bees, Virgil's description of them, 13, &c.

Berkley's bombardment of the coast of France, 11.

Blenheim battle celebrated, 58, &c.

Boyn battle described, 7, 8.

Burnet (Dr.) a Latin poem on his sacred theory of the earth, 445.

Cadmus's story, 142, 178, &c.

C.

Cecilia, a song for that saint's day, 24.

Calisto, her story, 125.

Campaign, a poem, 51.

Cato, a tragedy, 205. Verses with that play presented to the Princess

of Wales, 289.

Cave of Polyphemus described, 46, &c.

Chaucer's poetry celebrated, 27.

Claudian, the poet, his character, 172, 180.

Clitumnus river described, 34.

Congreve, his skill in poetry, 30.

Coronis, her story, 129.

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