Lud! what a group the motley scene discloses! False wit, false wives, false virgins, and false spouses! Statesmen with bridles on; and, close beside 'em, Miss, not yet full fifteen, with fire uncommon, man; The little urchin smiles, and spreads her lure, And tries to kill, ere she's got power to cure, Thus 'tis with all-their chief and constant care Is, to seem every thing but what they are. lion; Who frowns, and talks, and swears, with round parade, Looking, as who should say, Dam'me who's afraid? [Mimicking. Strip but this vizor off, and sure I am You'll find his lionship a very lamb. Yon politician, famous in debate, Perhaps, to vulgar eyes, bestrides the state; Yet, when he deigns his real shape t' assume, He turns old woman, and bestrides a broom. Yon patriot too, who presses on your sight, Yon critic too-but whither do I run? A SONNET. WEEPING, murmuring, complaining, Mira, too sincere for feigning, Yet why impair thy bright perfection, AN ELEGY ON THE GLORY OF HER SEX-MRS. MARY BLAIZE. GOOD people all, with one accord, The needy seldom pass'd her door, She strove the neighbourhood to please, At church, in silks and satins new, Her love was sought, I do aver, But now her wealth and finery fled, Let us lament, in sorrow sore, EPITAPH ON DR. PARNELL. THIS tomb inscribed to gentle Parnell's name, Celestial themes confess'd his tuneful aid; LETTER, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY A COMMON COUNCILMAN, AT THE TIME OF THE CORONATION OF GEORGE THE THIRD. SIR, I HAVE the honour of being a common councilman, and am greatly pleased with a paragraph from Southampton in yours of yesterday. There we learn that the mayor and aldermen of that loyal borough had the particular satisfaction of celebrating the royal nuptials by a magnificent turtle feast. By this means the gentlemen had the pleasure of filling their bellies and showing their loyalty together. I must confess, it would give me some pleasure to see some such method of testifying our loyalty practised in this metropolis, of which I am an unworthy member. Instead of presenting his Majesty (God bless him) on every occasion with our formal addresses, we might thus sit comfortably down to dinner, and wish him prosperity in a sir |