him a Methodist.

Mr. West's income was not large; and his friends endeavoured, but
without success, to obtain an augmentation. It is reported that the
education of the young Prince was offered to him, but that he
required a more extensive power of superintendence than it was
thought proper to allow him. In time, however, his revenue was
improved; he lived to have one of the lucrative clerkships of the
Privy Council (1752); and Mr. Pitt at last had it in his power to
make him Treasurer of Chelsea Hospital. He was now sufficiently
rich; but wealth came too late to be long enjoyed; nor could it
secure him from the calamities of life; he lost (1755) his only son;
and the year after (March 26) a stroke of the palsy brought to the
grave one of the few poets to whom the grave might be without its
terrors.

Of his translations I have only compared the first Olympic Ode with
the original, and found my expectation surpassed, both by its
elegance and its exactness. He does not confine himself to his
author's train of stanzas; for he saw that the difference of
languages required a different mode of versification. The first
strophe is eminently happy; in the second he has a little strayed
from Pindar's meaning, who says, "If thou, my soul, wishest to speak
of games, look not in the desert sky for a planet hotter than the
sun; nor shall we tell of nobler games than those of Olympia." He
is sometimes too paraphrastical. Pindar bestows upon Hiero an
epithet which, in one word, signifies DELIGHTING IN HORSES; a word
which, in the translation, generates these lines:--

"Hiero's royal brows, whose care