THE CONVERT. Some to our Hero have a hero’s na… Denied, because no father’s he cou… Nor could his mother with precisio… A full fair claim to her certifica…

Ye idler things, that soothed my h… Where would ye wander, triflers, t… As maids neglected, do ye fondly d… On the tair type, or the embroider… Detest my modest shelf, and long t…

Part I VAGRANT. Take, take away thy barbarous hand… And let me to thy Master speak; Remit awhile the harsh command,

Dwellings YES! we’ve our Borough-vices, an… How far they spread, how rapidly t… Yet think not virtue quits the bus… Nor charity, the virtues crown and…

THE FRANK COURTSHIP. Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindr… Was six feet high, and look’d six… Erect, morose, determined, solemn,… Who knew the man could never cease…

All the comforts of life in a Tav… ’Tis his home who possesses not on… And to him who has rather too much… ’Tis the house of a friend where h… run;

MY Damon was the first to wake    The gentle flame that cannot di… My Damon is the last to take    The faithful bosom’s softest si… The life between is nothing worth,

‘WHAT is a Church?’—Let Truth a… They would reply, ‘The faithful,… From Christian folds, the one sel… Of all professions, and in every p… ‘What is a Church?’—'A flock,' ou…

THE BROTHERS. Than old George Fletcher, on the… Dwelt not a seaman who had more to… Kind, simple and sincere—he seldom… But sometimes sang and chorus’d—'…

THE PATRON. A Borough-Bailiff, who to law was… A wife and sons in decent state ma… He had his way in life’s rough oce… And many a rock and coast of dange…

These are monarchs none respect, Heroes, yet an humbled crew, Nobles, whom the crowd correct, Wealthy men, whom duns pursue; Beauties shrinking from the view

DISPOSED to wed, e’en while yo… There’s great advantage in a small… Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise… This prudent maxim of the priest o… If poor, delay for future want pre…

RESENTMENT. Females there are of unsuspicious… Easy and soft and credulous and ki… Who, when offended for the twentie… Will hear the offender and forgive…

THE CONFIDANT. Anna was young and lovely—in her e… The glance of beauty, in her cheek… Her shape was slender, and her fea… But graceful, easy, unaffected all…

THE STRUGGLES OF CONSC… A serious Toyman in the city dwel… Who much concern for his religion… Reading, he changed his tenets, re… And various questions could with s…