The next is also from Homer, and is proposed as an improvement of Pope:— They knew and own’d the monarch of the main: The sea subsiding spreads a level plain: The curling waves before his coursers fly: The parting surface leaves his brazen axle dry. _Miscellaneous Works_, 1801, iv. 410. From the same source comes number three, a quatrain from Vida’s _Eclogues_:— Say heavenly muse, their youthful frays rehearse; Begin, ye daughters of immortal verse; Exulting rocks have crown’d the power of song! And rivers listen’d as they flow’d along. _Miscellaneous Works_, 1801, iv. 427. Another is a couplet from Ovid, the fish referred to being the _scarus_ or bream:— Of all the fish that graze beneath the flood, He, _only_, ruminates his former food. _History of the Earth,_ etc., 1774, iii. 6. Bolton Corney also prints the translation from the _Spectator_, already given in this volume. His last fragment is from the posthumous translation of Scarron’s _ Roman Comique_:— Thus, when soft love subdues the heart With smiling hopes and chilling fears, The soul rejects the aid of art, And speaks in moments more than years. _The Comic Romance of Monsieur Scarron_, 1775, ii. 161. It is unnecessary to refer to any other of the poems attributed to Goldsmith. Mitford included in his edition a couple of quatrains inserted in the _Morning Chronicle_ for April 3, 1800, which were said to be by the poet; but they do not resemble his manner. Another piece with the title of _The Fair Thief_ was revived in July, 1893, by an anonymous writer in the _Daily_ _Chronicle_, as being possibly by Goldsmith, to whom it was assigned in an eighteenth-century anthology (1789–80). Its discoverer, however, subsequently found it given in Walpole’s _Noble Authors_ (Park’s edition, 1806) to Charles Wyndham, Earl of Egremont. It has no great merit; and may safely be neglected as an important addition to Goldsmith’s _Works_, already burdened with much which that critical author would never have reprinted. APPENDIX E GOLDSMITH ON POETRY UNDER ANNE AND GEORGE THE FIRST. In Letter xvi, vol. ii. pp.139–41, of _An History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to his Son_, 1764, Goldsmith gives the following short account of the state of poetry in the first quarter of the Eighteenth Century.