Love with white lead cements his wings: She ventures now to lift the sash; 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. • Portugal.-H. WS to show, ad, 2. THE PROGRESS OF THE farmer's goose, who in grow la Her body light, she tries her w scorns the ground, and up While all the parish, as she thi ear sounds harmonious from Such is the poet fresh in pa The third night's profits of hi VOL XIV. K THE PROGRESS OF POETRY. THE farmer's goose, who in the stubble Soon make dame my grow lank and spare, Her body light, she tries her wings, And scorns the ground, and upward springs; Hear sounds harmonious from the skies. The third night's profits of his play; VOL XIV. K scene, ocrene. ons fail, and ale ; both and bare, lets in air; body pin'd, of wind; race, to flying case: loathes and clothes;' vapour, ngs of paper. flying sings, 1 Grub-Street rings. 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.] 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 |