And scorn the labour'd monument."
And in his "Instalment" (which shared the same fate as "The Wish"):
"Oh! how I long, enkindled by the theme,
In deep eternity to launch thy name."
Young was no "Milasian:" so these rhymes go to acquit Swift of the Irishism attributed to him by Cuthbert Bede; as, taken in connexion with those used by Pope and others, it is clear they were not uncommon or confined to the Irish poets. At the same time, I cannot think them either elegant or musical, nor can I agree with one of your correspondents, that their occasional use destroys the sameness of rhyme. If poets were to introduce eccentric rhymes at pleasure, to produce variety, the shade of Walker would I think be troubled sorely.
Alexander Andrews.
Passage in Boerhaave (Vol. vii., p. 453.).—As the passage is incorrectly given from memory, it
is not easy to say where it is to be found. I venture, however, to lay before the Foreign Surgeon the following, from the Institutiones Medicæ cæt. digestæ, ab Herm. Boerhaave (Vienna, 1775), p. 382.:
"Unde tamen mors senilis per has mutationes accidit inevitabilis, et ex ipsa sanitate sequens."
And from Ph. Ambr. Marhesz, Prælectiones in H. Boerh., Inst. Med. (Vienna, 1785), vol. iii. p. 44.: