Peace, occasioned by the British Fleet and the Posture of Affairs.
Written in the Character of a Sailor." It is not to be found in the
author's four volumes. He now appears to have given up all hopes of
overtaking Pindar, and perhaps at last resolved to turn his ambition
to some original species of poetry. This poem concludes with a
formal farewell to Ode, which few of Young's readers will regret:

"My shell, which Clio gave, which KINGS APPLAUD,
Which Europe's bleeding genius called abroad,
Adieu!"

In a species of poetry altogether his own he next tried his skill,
and succeeded.

Of his wife he was deprived in 1741. Lady Elizabeth had lost, after
her marriage with Young, an amiable daughter, by her former husband,
just after she was married to Mr. Temple, son of Lord Palmerston.
Mr. Temple did not long remain after his wife, though he was married
a second time to a daughter of Sir John Barnard's, whose son is the
present peer. Mr. and Mrs. Temple have generally been considered as
Philander and Narcissa. From the great friendship which constantly
subsisted between Mr. Temple and Young, as well as from other
circumstances, it is probable that the poet had both him and Mrs.
Temple in view for these characters; though, at the same time, some
passages respecting Philander do not appear to suit either Mr.
Temple or any other person with whom Young was known to be connected
or acquainted, while all the circumstances relating to Narcissa have
been constantly found applicable to Young's daughter-in-law. At
what short intervals the poet tells us he was wounded by the deaths
of the three persons particularly lamented, none that has read the