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“ I could never read thefe lines without calling“ to mind t'nofe grotefque heads, which are fixed“ to the roof of the old building of King’s College ,“ in Cambridge ; which the ingenious architect has“ reprefented as vomiting out the rain that falls“ through certain pipes, mold judicioufly duck in“ their mouth for that purpofe. Mr. Addifon re-“ commends a method of trying the propriety of a“ metaphor, by drawing it out in vifibfe reprefen-“ tation. Accordingly, I think this curious con-’“ ceit of the builder might be employed to the ad-“ vantage of the youth in that Univerfity; and“ ferve for as proper an illuftration of the abfurdity“ of the Poet ’s image, as that ancient, picture which“ FElian mentions,, where Homer was figured with“ a ftream running from his mouth, and a group of“ Poets lapping it up at a diftance.”

The Chapel of this College is juftly efleemed,by connoifieurs, as the moft perfect and magnificentmonument of Gothic architecture in the world.How far it had advanced at the Founder’s death, isuncertain: it is probable that it was raiied prettyhigh at the eaft end, and carried on Hoping towardsthe weft, to the height of the white {tone. Henry,the firft Founder,, had fettled a great part of the re-venues of the Dutchy of Lancaster, and alfo aftone-cjuarrv in Yorkshire , for the completion ofthe whole work; but Edward IF. on his acceffion,G 3 feized