In 1705, he began to correfpond with

Mr. Pope, in whom he difcovered very

power of

early the poetry. Their let-. ters are written upon the paftoral comedy of the Italians, and thofe paftorals which Pope was then preparing to pub lifh.

The kindneffes which are firft experienced are seldom forgotten. Pope always retained a grateful memory of Walsh's notice, and mentioned him in one of his latter pieces among thofe that had encouraged his juvenile studies! —Granville the polite,

And knowing Walsh, would tell me I could write.!

In his Effay on Criticifm he had given him more fplendid praife, and, in the

opinion of his learned commentator, facrificed a little of his judgement to his

The time of his death I have not learned. It must have happened between, 1707, when he wrote to Pope, and 1711, when Pope praifed him in the Effay. The epitaph makes him forty-fix years old if Wood's account be right, he died in 1709.

He is known more by his familiarity with greater men, than by any thing done or written by himself.

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His works are not numerous. In profe he wrote Eugenia, a defence of women; which Dryden honoured with a Preface.

Efculapius, or the Hofpital of Fools, publifhed after his death.

A Col

A Collection of Letters and Poems, amorous and gallant, was published in the volumes called Dryden's Mifcellany, and fome other occafional pieces.

To his Poems and Letters is prefixed a very judicious preface upon Epiftolary Compofition and Amorous Poetry.

In his Golden Age reftored, there was fomething of humour, when the facts were recent; but it now ftrikes no longer. In his imitation of Horace, the first stanzas are happily turned; and in all his writings there are pleafing paffages. He has however more elegance than vigour, and feldom rifes higher than to be pretty.

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