No. 128. Anxiety universal. The unhappiness of a wit and a fine lady.
[Greek: Aion d asphalaes Ouk egent, out Aiakida para Paelei, Oute par antitheo Kadmo legontai man broton Olbon hupertaton hoi …
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No. 127. Diligence too soon relaxed. Necessity of perseverance.
Capisti meliust, quam desinis. Ultima primis Cedunt: dissimiles hic vir et ille puer. Ovid. Ep. ix. 24. Succeeding years thy …
No. 126. The universality of cowardice. The impropriety of extorting praise. The impertinence of an astronomer.
Nihil est aliud magnum quam multa minuta. VET. AUCT. Sands form the mountain, moments make the year. YOUNG. TO THE …
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 …
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. …