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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…
JESSE AND COLIN. A Vicar died and left his Daughte… It hurt her not, she was not rich… Her humble share of worldly goods… Paid every debt, and then her fort…
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran… Of shame and guilt!—who cannot rea… Misery and mirth are blended in hi… Much innate vileness and some outw… There wishes strong and stronger g…
Upon The Subject When all the fiercer passions ceas… (The glory and disgrace of youth): When the deluded soul in peace, Can listen to the voice of truth:
Part I VAGRANT. Take, take away thy barbarous hand… And let me to thy Master speak; Remit awhile the harsh command,
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…
Place the white man on Afric’s co… Whose swarthy sons in blood deligh… Who of their scorn to Europe boas… And paint their very demons white: There, while the sterner sex disda…
WE had a sprightly nymph—in every… Are some such sprights, who wander… She had her useful arts, and could… In Time’s despite, to stay at twe… ‘Here will I rest; move on, thou…
Next died the Lady who yon Hall p… And here they brought her noble bo… In Town she dwelt:- forsaken stoo… Worms ate the floors. the tapestry… No fire the kitchens cheerless gra…
A QUIET, simple man was Abel K… He meant no harm, nor did he often… He kept a school of loud rebelliou… And growing old, grew nervous with… When a kind merchant hired his use…
NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn… And yield the praise to worth and… But this with serious words and so… For these are friends with whom we… Helpers of men they’re call’d, and…
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—'…
When the sad soul, by care and gri… Looks round the world, but looks i… When every object that appears in… Partakes her gloom and seems dejec… Where shall affliction from itself…
’TIS well—that Man to all the va… Of good and ill his mind accommoda… He not alone progressive grief sus… But soon submits to unexperienced… Change after change, all climes hi…
YOU say you envy in your calm ret… Our social Meetings;—'tis with jo… In these our parties you are pleas… Good sense and wit, with intercour… Composed of men who read, reflect,…