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Love with white lead cements his wings:
White lead was sent us to repair
Two brightest, brittlest, earthly things,.
A lady's face, and China-ware.

She ventures now to lift the sash;
The window is her proper sphere:
Ah, lovely nymph! be not too rash,
Nor let the beaux approach too near.

Take pattern by your sister star :

Delude at once and bless our sight; When you are seen, be seen from far, And chiefly choose to shine by night.

But art no longer can prevail,

When the materials all are gone; The best mechanic hand must fail, Where nothing's left to work upon.

Matter, as wise logicians say,

Cannot without a form subsist; And form, say I, as well as they, Must fail, if matter brings no grist.

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THE PROGRESS OF POETRY.

THE farmer's goose, who in the stubble
Has fed without restraint or trouble,
Grown fat with corn and sitting still,
Can scarce get o'er the barn-door sill;
And hardly waddles forth to cool
Her belly in the neighbouring pool!
Nor loudly cackles at the door;
For cackling shows the goose is poor.
But, when she must be turn'd to graze,
And round the barren common strays,
Hard exercise, and harder fare,

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And scorns the ground, and upward springs;
While all the parish, as she flies,

Hear sounds harmonious from the skies.
Such is the poet fresh in pay,

The third night's profits of his play;

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When the deluded people dream of South Sea wealth, their w the directors by whom that ruino d. The parliamentary proceedi were carried on with unusual viole descended from one of these directo the injustice with which they were The legislature restrained the perso an exorbitant security for thei their characters with a previous note pelled to deliver, upon oath, States, and were disabled from mak of any part of their property. ad penalties, it is the common righ ard by his counsel at the bar: th ir prayer was refused; and their eridence, would listen to no defen oposed, that one eighth of their res lowed for the future support of th iously urged, that, in the various ut, such a proportion would be too might possibly be too heavy. A t and unheard, in arbitrary fines wept away the greater part of their Miscellaneous Works, I. 11.]

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dream of South Sea wealth, their wrath rose to the brim against the directors by whom that ruinous project had been conducted. The parliamentary proceedings instituted against them were carried on with unusual violence. Gibbon, the historian, descended from one of these directors, complains grievously of the injustice with which they were treated.

The legislature restrained the persons of the directors, impos. ed an exorbitant security for their appearance, and marked their characters with a previous note of ignominy. They were compelled to deliver, upon oath, the striot value of their estates, and were disabled from making any transfer or alienation of any part of their property. Against a bill of pains and penalties, it is the common right of every subject to be heard by his counsel at the bar: they prayed to be heard; their prayer was refused; and their oppressors, who required no evidence, would listen to no defence. It had been at first proposed, that one eighth of their respective estates should be allowed for the future support of the directors; but it was speciously urged, that, in the various shades of opulence and guilt, such a proportion would be too light for many, and for some might possibly be too heavy. All were condemned, absent and unheard, in arbitrary fines and forfeitures, which swept away the greater part of their substance."-GIBBON'S Miscellaneous Works, I. 11.]

YE wise philosophers explain
What magic makes our money rise,
When dropt into the Southern main:
Or do these jugglers cheat our eyes?

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