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i '-j. ft i U -1 .7 i. t 'V! t - Sdedted Poetry. not7ith the fame charming conn tfianccrffiTchr'; fhewore- the v fixfl time I er faw her,jvluch was at a ball, where I had the honour to chaw her for a partner, and for the firft 'time in my life felt the thicbbing of thoBghtlexperifive furniture or drefs VOutJlBe quite antifederal. In (hort, I told him, that paQe buckles and po verty were never made to -be compa nions My neighbour's wife, had told , nineTand Ihe was then determined to For tro EnghwcT, to be furei is no rhach for iiSjjet in cafe of a war vid hur, we (hod vain fome money. War is l'dce a lawCmte ; and I iio, to my reef, what a lawfhute is, for 1 vas alnu.ft ruii eted :by.-: canine a cruze H O P E. a tender, heaft-ach? exchedby. t er I ave a pair of palle buckles, that the Tagatift a gcfli-p. cf mine,' that chcted Amid the varying fcenci of. life, Where filrnt care and noify ftrife,'. The fhifting drama fill, . . In this dark valley dr,jdivm'd in tear, ' "Augmented by increafrng years, , 1 liopc lights her .taper-full. -,.r Although the foul ride on the wavei, -Where danger-fwims and terror laver- To fright the goddefs Joy; To fa ye her ff om the' rotk, defpair, Hope is her Ihrady anchor there, el e cant drefs, her eafy .manneis, het I wotld mieht know we wete not. poor l with I could provejt rrepreiented to her the folly ofvtbe deception, aric ndeavoured Jo realon with her ; bur he remained otftinate and fixt in her utpofe. The cut tains were again Mentioned : and I told her (he fhouhr h ive a pair of pafte buckles I Iwould , i ftantly go to the fhops .and . buy: VI cm for her and bring them to he' 1 felJL in lejs than an hour, if:.' Ihe- finiling and ferene, as the face of Un earth iirihe brightmorniug of .-M'ay wheivnot a rude breath of air dillujbi the feet flilln cfs of the fee n e, in deranges the order of the expandirg blofloms and flowers not with tl c (lilt fmait voice tif f Jendfhip ati'd lov vl4ch in the halcyon days of court (hip, or the fhottlived period of the honey nobur tiled to dittilfrnni lier-i-ould-aec eptof-t hem, Not-1 5, as gentle-an I refiefhing! as the- I Teed,' ihe replied, So, iff can't tne ; but the devel (hal hav all mv gof-. tups, men, vrinen and childi int befoar Tgo to law lihne c-f um agen; War requires money ; as bad as a law finite $ withoute money bur generuls and cpif, ' nits, and granydeers woodn't fire;.; without money our preefts woodn't Pri .out of pnrpaturry when - we ' vere'vkilt ntiay, our drvmnibrs vvood no moar rat t el their fticUs without : inetry thancourfillrs O'Cnrrih, or !' Drift-nil would rattel their tun o Credulity the buoy. What though a deluge finle the groundj Nought but the fea be fcen around, 7And nought but heav'n above? -Like Noah, on the tide of gritf, . Thernind foon finds a fweet relief From Hope, her herald dove. MPS, JfaQ ng dew of a' f ti mine i '3 e v e l i n g nut' inaicnationiowereci on . ner djow fMKyjL. war her fTrcTp once the feat of anpetic-itiulesr wa tt ithout their hire. W hen we hav orjt inonv then will be the time to invaide now anrwrTphTuT hefcTr iiv the-tuiniiit and hurly . burly of a itovni ; lightning -.flaflied - from her' eyes ; thunder roared from her tongue ; and her voice in vengeance thus bul llupon me r-Yru a man hav hem. voluntarily, I vow I wonY have ;hem at all my flioeVflwll fdoiftr ..Knplondtiike LnnnonT hrirrr it hoam netiedTwi! h iti inS; which vviU: 1 e? with s, 'snd -bild it-in-BeHaft, ' My nnch more fafliionnble into thehar- deer cnntiymen',. every one otLyou. "tratrrrt'was'a It ornlhed I w as iir4eveU -know -pa hUv tuat ouai ea w ize but the mechanical words"" of" the TfrunMtherfoarjT tailing, "I caii'tuntie " the knot,' take a fool's advice, and be quiet. . nt that inftant popt into my thoughts ' 1 am, my deer printur? your far So I refolved to make the belt of my vent to cummand till tleth. . Mrpa.n -, and rcrollttting Mat me wut I Patrick 0'Flahep:tv. Should angry ftorm, or black'ning cloud. In darknefs1our horizon fliroud, To cheat us of the light; ' Hope, ever adtive, ever nigh, Lifts the'black bonnet from the fltj, ' . And drives away xhc night. '. '.'' '' . ' If adverfe winds, or eaftern gale, : Wide o'er the field of pleafure 'ail. 1 ' Its blofloms gay deface; Hope eager flies and turns the vane, --Mild" lephyrs rbreathe, the flow'rs again . Appear with native grace. Thus when the box of mis'ries broke, ; fair Hope furviv'd the cruel ftroke,' . ' ' i , ' I . i J - ' i ' .r,: I BalhbooH, nrer Tipermrv re urneo m inence-io my-paumei,i ifi. . , - J ' s : Catholicon mod fure ; "7 " For all the plagues that reach "the mind, And all the pain that vex mankind, , Herfelf a teady cure. .: EPIGRAM.. THE FEAST. Jfit li'mniy fmoket it utmt tmtn Jin t Hit neighituri art eUraud t tnitry tut, " rjtl,' OaV0 Mifcellany. 7 HE DOMESTIC TORN ADO i IN IMITATION OP STERNE. My wife, I fiy, entered the - - r...i I i . roo'.n, wnere i miing wiin:mv--nann,asi-wns,to -rather er.iow reltim. on inc tauie aim m head carelefdy lesnins on my harm" in one of my lackadailicsl niooJs. mu fin over the happy p ofpetfts of mj country tinder the aufpices of the fe ileral government, and the bleflings domeUic and matrimonial life I was thinking how the farmer might be improved the laft appeared to me ah nmft p.'ifcdt at lealt, thought I with in myfelf, the comforts of a hiifljiiM' exceed thofe of a folitary, lil'elelv lump of cUv called an OM Caciiel u ai much as the full blaze f the mcti dim fun furpafles the, glimmering o . a lightning bug in a dogday twiligh; ' Yes, au4-l4hatJceJ-l!caeii for iu from my tety heart t bui my wife, 1 fiy, entered the room The crpeii' too once entered ifaradifc. Pauloi fner ny anrl,-that thought: For ) ti otcft, wi h the finccrhy jf a dwg lover. I would blIt the, villain, vho fhoiil-l pronounce, or even think thcr a P iake. There was fomething, how ever, which (I know not how n t wherefore) ftnick me, in Wiy appear a'Kf, that made me Involunuiily ihink .f Adam and Eve, applet, frt. pent and the deil My wife, 1 bate fiid, or wat alwut faying, entered the roo'n now, why I fliould jH the khink of hifll'g, of a iper, or of Ee'l er, if I wat tn P'fTer the p.um of tooth drawing to all eternity, I , could not t ell but my wife then en tered the room, ye the very o- U man, who in the mod public arid fole mn manner, had voted .to Jove honour, ami eJr me fhe, thtt wo man, my wedded wife, at that luck led' moment entered the room but nearteu ion ot a lhacow i ou pi e tend to be a . man of gencrofity ! No ! You pitiful, ' mifergrown imnge of nothiriinefs you fhapelefs iViLltaie of a flea's gi zzard y ou" Hold, h u (h , cried I, railing myfelf out of my chair, and .advancing towards her, with as much compofure as my furprife wouhl permit, hlh,. my dear ; i lam no - childpreplied (lie, . in a tone w hich pierced my heart to the quick. I am not a child ; fo you nr d not attempt toMiufh me to reft " Have patience a nsomenr, my love, frfid-tj'TiiT-'a faul! evfng4 accent ; -Avhy all tfiis fury" whirl wind of madr.tfsl '.Whirlwind ! don't compare me to whirl windsfhe exclaiinctl w ith a" frown, which I am fue michTTe fen through a doi ble pine door at leaft I thought fo then, it 'made fuch an imprdTion tipon mv fhiverinc foul --i'l j ,-1 '1 Rel 1 Toit? com inuedftev1 -with all the natural, un?fFeciel-eIo-quence of a fcolding vvife. ril .teach )ou ; ; but not n w The c'"rta'tnr are my province;, ard I'll' read -you . ftich a Uclnre'" then with an air (and a devil of an air it was!) fhe, withdrew, but ui.fortunarely. in 1 er halle, fhe ran bounce'auaii ft thete i able, over fet it, broke her, heft fer , of china into a ihoufaud pierej Fere I expected the ftorm viould rrtrn with redoubled fmy.'and to be fail ly broom flicked or di'bffd al out' the -houfe for her car-h fsnefs but I Wits difappomted ; fhe cominued her march, recan'lefs tif !my broken" peace and her brnkrn ,tra enps and fiucers, and left me, like atvesify, pood raturen, luDinuiive, nen-peckel Imt- nn the ihankinj? heaven, as I walked alorc;. x hat my Tex is diftinguifiicd by beard and or tuba 4 Yorick Junior. AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUES (from late Irijb Pajtef) C U RIO U S"LETT ER. 71 folUwtig Utter .vat fount?, tiuo month t ot . in a fotttr ko'-je, and xit it i ur itadert " acuriojilyt . . : ' ; "' My deer inr. printur, ' y -- line a very plane man. ; I hav no lai liiriand -verei- litt el - tnlifli thu'T 1 can taitke Irifh as falle as5ny mail in Munfter, excep my wif,, who to be f re can tauke me def ; and"afterwards loaul&mnaULlm ei infJpL But, tho'.. Ime,n.6t..book lani'd,. yet fa- Three inhabitants of JSalck, ' who travelled together, fonild a treafine. ' They divided it, and continued their j;onie. confer i in r; with each other on the ufe they mould make of their newly acquired wealth " As the provj fions they had bi ought along i ith them Were con fumed, they were under ;a"h ect filt yj i or; fend in g t o the na rt ft w, rowiT, m order to pet feme. voungeft was charged with this com- ne laui to mifli on, aiid clepj'.rted. him felt on the way, how rich ?m 1 ! But 1 fhoi)ld be niuch richer, if I had teen alone, when we found the treji fure : The companions of my ioutrey praventKCii aw:iy two-parts from me fragments of boih, which I did, as well at I could, and Mt down as coin pofed as till the idea of the cur taint ruflictl back upon my mind, and becan to haunt me Kiel fie! faid 1 to myfelf, once or twice, it is not worth minding; I'll thi k no mof T it But, nature writ too prwrfl to be overcome by fuch feeble chid ing Now, I ,alwas had an aver fion to curtains i fo I determined, tr fneak away after my fpo'.feyas boh! us an Alexander, and knowtj e wptfl f it for I drenlrd the confines ot the cuta':nt and I folemnlv detinue, yes, and if it wasnot agrunft the fto . mach of myjcohfcif tire, I fljonld even 'wear, point blank, there is fnmcihin in furniture check, and Mue trd white calico, aye, and your red. purple and' white too, v hich I did' never think of, but with terror; thry fcrm like the tegalia oPdoniefltc ty ranny Indeed, of all the odiou forms of government, with whicli the vvcrld has ever lecn acemfed, th pettycoatical. thoncht I, is tl e mof. energetic, at lcaft,.if ret the wotfl. Pnwevcr. ai I 'was going to relate. I followed my wife, and found that alt this mighty totnao arofc from the roilowirj circnn Itanf e. It feemt I had told one of. my neighbours; eitlv in the morning th-t I thought a fiWer buckle was at great an ornament to a lvdi flioe, parte one, where the expenfe of the latter would besr fo hard on the hiiOnnd, as to make him Cqjlsil ftme rf the good thinfsof his dining table ciid the rral neceflariet of .hit family, tofnaHehim to mike the putclufc.' In fuch citcunidsjicci, 1 " - m - - W . m . . ther TtdyO'Rovke, who is a deepe. 2;t riot I recover tijemT Tesr tfcjs Ikollardf cffien tells me, when Ime f ould be eafily done ; I need only, pe gging him a jorum of whifley punch, fn ,hc a? gotng for. When I i icium, i li'ay iiy, imhi i timed m that tho Ime lunorentx ; yet I hav a goode nndurftanding.-. But if th;s be aule, Blarney, ancl if I have roundur landing at aule, this neede nat hinder me from riting abatue polly ticks, be caife this is a thing that every bodie undurdands. But it is time for me to be after telling you what it is 1 mane. The fociety of United Ir;fh men arc they can they hav amung nm aule profidi atutnies, aid bvuers, & fteymakurs, and doctors, and grand jintleinin, who ware formerly pnrlamint men, and, if they were able to by burroes, a 1 I nnti ic the icme oren i ann tney ua 'own ; ry companions will cat with our fufpfciinp s-ny thing, rnd will die. I l-.ave but the third of the treafure, and I then fiiall have the whole. In the mean time, the two other travel, lers, fcatrd tir.dcr the (hade of a. tree, 'aid to one another, what a (trance mifliap it is, that we fhonld fall into firtihPly mhy fine pp1e : 0,"Pf')' with that j-oung fellow ! Ve t but noe every thine, for " "bilged to 1isicltf the tt ea- amune nm aule prohffion fu,.e w,t.h Um ll il.ouW have belonged to lis, and then we rcnld call ourfclvfs rich. lie will foonietnin; we have go. d poignatds. The young man lettirm; his companions :iuifiuite him: THev aft.rwards eat . and kev,eynamonp urn, preefls, and prof-' f the poifoned vicl mils and die : ai M.e.ion minifturs, and ethiefts, and then the treafure belongs to nobody. 11 the othur religions in the kingdom Now this fociety tels ws that the r'lenfiie revoluflion : the mod char inin, vartuous, iiobeUnrnifie that the 'world ever fawe, dml that we autto imet te it as fa fit as we can. But o- he ofhur.hat d, there er. foppin book inakert who fwere that it is the molt bomiu:4-le,, hcllifli wotke that ever w as dote" fence Addem was crillened, md that if te attempr'any fitch thing, CURICUS ANECDOTE. Ti e vhiirfiral and immortal author of Trill i am Shandy wis mairitd to nrs, Srerne on a Sattndv morning. His parifiioneit had timely infoima tion of this rircumftatice, rtftl krow ing he would ptcach the next trofn we fhalldiftroy all lrelond;;miwhat i ti g at bis pnfli church, and dthtcoa woi Vf, diftioy ouifelves. Now by ihe at the fame time of feeing the Wide,, ' vtfliiietn, thcte gretc people lxldcr tne they afletubled in fuch crowds that the , "fo, bv tlieirpalaVvei ing oh" Ixith fides, church was full before the belk Y - palauveritig that I !ont know what tn think of it, at all at all and therefote I fend you my own, thautt upon the fuhpcl : 1 th'inkt tlien that ten eAit is little enuff for givingtl.p Kimch revolt flion a fre triel. If we finde in the year iSoo that ithasbrout to the Fret fh nun, liches, and bono-, and happ) felt, and all that, then, in the name of the bleflit virgin, let in nil drave our fpedes, and flauns, and fhilclirs. and hav a pratid bodJeia. ticnol our one. nit iff we fceibarit as maid the Krei.fhmen poor and in done tolling. The bride, n was ex- perted, made her appearance, and the count y folks indulged them felveM ith . the ufiial obterva'ions, until, Stcrre mounted the pulp... 1 let e every eye was direiftetl to him, and every ear ready to catch the words, t f his text, which turned "out, to 'their pflnnifii rnetit, to Ik? the following t Wt ten U,Ud all ntht mdhit tturH tt9 Jjb. The congregation lex led fct each, other i fome fmiled, f.tbert (lcppr1 their moutht with their b?rdkerchtef fimous. ard wiked, then let us remane I to prevent tbem frcm la'gh!rg, while the old toiKS wore very leiiom i?ces, .and thought the humourift a very odd (fort of man for a r1p:t Ictfturerj However, they ittended to hit dif. coutfe, whi?h tut red oct, at ufual, very inflrrc'tivf,'' and all went home vety highly dfvei ted with tbe'texr. except foor mrs.S'rmf, vihobbflcd, down to her flfrcrV end cvtty Hep cf die way to her Loufe, , fuug, and p-. hMe and content our- relvet with vohinteenng, and tinging ttczion, and drinkcing rebellion iuft to flio that ve ae breve Itifli bo) t, tut not come the jnak any farthur. In the mane time, until that hapy "veer (hal come, in which "we m'ny pcfibly hav the plcfure ol cutin ore aoder ttoatt, let us le induftrus, and em a ieie deil cf money, and (eve more. i
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