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Having asccrtaned the names and con-
tltions of the parties. the reader becomes
Naturally inqaisijivc into their employ
kcnt and wishes to know whether their
occupation is worthy of them. This laud-
bble curiosity is abundantly gratificd in
4he succeeding lines for,


Jack and Gill


Went up Il hill


To fetch a pail OF water.


Here we behold the plan gradually un-
IoIling; Il new scene opens to Our view,


pqd the description is exceedingly bcauti-
fll. We now discover their object,
Which we were before left to conjecture.
W. see the two friends, like Pylades and
Grcstcs, assisting and cheering each 9th
er in their labors, gaily ascending the hill,
eagcr to arrive at the summit, and to fill
|lhcir pail or bucket. Here, too, is a new
&cgancc. Our acute author could not
BIT observe the necessity Of machinery,
a hch has been so much commended by
xritics. and admired by readers. Instead,
bowevcr. of introducing Il host of gods
I Ind goddesscs, who might have only i'm
3eded the progress Of his heroes, by the
Intervention of the bucket. which is, as it
tught to be, simple, and conducive to the
Srorress of the poem, he has considerably
Aprovcd Oh the ancient plan. In the
4 MANAGEMENT of it also. he has shown
nuch Judgment, by making the Influence
d the machinery and the subject recipro-
al: for while the utensl carries on the
heroes it is itself carried on by them. 1t
Has been objected, that their employment
! not sufficiently dignifed for epic poet
IN but, in answer to this, it must be re-
harked, that it was the opinion of Socra-
Us, and many other philosophers, that
Beauty should be estimated by utility, and


yurely the purpose of the heroes must


kvc been beneficial. They assembled the
nnIgcd moun;ain to draw water, and


Drawing water is certainly more condu-


Gve to human happiness than drawing
hood, as do the boosted heroes of tie


Had, or rowing on the ocean. and Invad-


H. other mems property, as did the plous
Eneas. Yes they went to draw water.


Interesting scene 1t might have been


drawn for the purpose of culinary con-


Mmp,on it might have been to qucnch


Dc thirst of the harmless animals who re-


ed on them for support it might have


Hen to feed sterile soil, and to revive


thc dropping plants which they raised by
her labors. Is not our author more lu-
&cious than Apollonius, who chooses for
he heroes of his Argonautics set OF ras-
RIs undertaking to steal a shecp-skIn /:
Md if dignity is TO be considered, is not
&awing water a circumstance highly char
|Gteristic of antiquity DO we not find
Ne amiablc Rebccca busy at the we'll
does not one of the maidcns in the Odys-
ey delight us by her diligence IN the
Ame situation-and has not learned
Qean proved that it was quite fashionable
|n Peloponnesus : Let there be an end
~ such frivolous remarks. But the de-
3rptivc part is now finished, and the all-


4or hastcns to the catastrophe. At what


Pr of the mountain the well was sltuat-


\, what was the reason of the sad mis-
Srtune, or how the prudence of Jack for
polk him, We are not informed; but so
sns! it happened,