No. 125. The difficulty of defining comedy. Tragick and comick sentiments confounded.
Descriptas servare vices, operumque colores, Cur ego, si nequeo ignoroque, pota salutor? HOR. De Ar. Poet. 86. But if, through …
Monthly Archives: May 1751
No. 124. The lady’s misery in a summer retirement.
Taciturn sylvas inter reptare salubres, Curantem quicquid dignim sapiente bonoque est? HOR. Lib. i. Ep. iv. 4. To range in …
No. 123. The young trader turned gentleman.
Even while I am preparing to write a history of disappointed expectations, I cannot forbear to flatter myself.
No. 122. A criticism on the English historians.
Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos Ducit. OVID, Ex Pon. Lib. i. Ep. iii. 35. By secret charms our native …
No. 121. The dangers of imitation. The impropriety of imitating Spenser.
O imitatores, servum pecus! Hor. Lib. i. Ep. xix. 19. Away, ye imitators, servile herd! ELPHINSTON. I have been informed …
No. 120. The history of Almamoulin the son of Nouradin.
In the reign of Jenghiz Can, conqueror of the east, in the city of Samarcand, lived Nouradin the merchant, renowned throughout all India.
No. 119. Tranquilla’s account of her lovers, opposed to Hymenaeus.
Iliacos intra muros peccatur, et extra. HOR. Lib. i. Ep. ii, 16. Faults lay on either side the Trojan tow’rs. …
No. 118. The narrowness of fame.
Omnes illacrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa Nocte. Hon. Lib. iv. Ode ix. 26. In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown. FRANCIS. …