1 hands. In my opinion (allowing for the inevitable faults of a profe translation into a language fo very differ ent) there is a good deal of beauty in them. The epithet of ftag-eyed (tho the found is not very agreeable in English) pleafes me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress's eyes-Monfeur Boileau has very justly observed, that we are never to judge of the elevation of an expreffion in an ancient author, by the found it carries with us; fince it may be extremely fine with them, when, at the fame time, it appears low or uncouth to us. You are so well acquainted with Homer, you cannot but have obferved the fame thing, and you must have the fame indulgence for all oriental poetry. The repetitions at the end of the two firft ftanza's are meant for a fort of chorus, and are agreeable to the ancient manner of writing. The mufic of the verses apparently changes in the third stanza, where the burden is altered; and I think he very artfully feems more paffionate at the conclufion, as it is natural for people to warm them felves by their own difcourse, especially on a subject in which one is deeply concerned; it is certainly far more touching, than our modern cuftom of concluding a fong of paffion, with a turn which is inconfiftent with it. The firft verfe is a defcription of the feafon of the year; all the country now being full of nightingales, whofe amours, with rofes, is an Arabian fable, as well known here, as any part of Ovid amongst us, and is much the fame, as if an Eng lish poem should begin, by saying,"Now Philomela fings." Or what if I turned the whole into the ftyle of Eng. lish poetry, to fee how it would look ? I. Now Philomel renews her tender train, Indulging all the night her pleaning pain; I fought the groves to hear the wanton img, 'There faw a fate, more beauteous than the spring. [play, Your large ftags eyes where thoufand giorics As bright, as lively, but as wid as they. 11. In vain Pm promis'd fuch a heavenly prize. Ah! cruel Sultan! who delay't my joys! I have taken the liberty in the fecond verfe, of following what I fuppofe the true fenfe of the author, tho' not literally expreffed by his faying he went down to admire the beauty of the vines, and her charms ravifhed his foul." I understand a poetical fiction, of having first feen her in a garden, where he was admiring the beauty of the fpring. But I could not forbear retaining the comparison of her eyes with thofe of a ftag, though perhaps the novelty of it may give it a burlefque found in our lan guage. I cannot determine, upon the whole, how well I have fucceeded in the tranflation, neither do I think our English proper to exprefs fuch violence of paffion, which is very seldom felt a mongst us. We want, alfo, thofe compound words which are very frequent and strong in the Turkish language. You fee I am pretty far gone in oriental learning; and to fay truth, I ftudy very hard. I wish my fiudies may give me an occafion of entertaining your curiofity, which will be the utmost advantage hoped for from them by yours, &c. From 茄子 From the YOUNGLady's MagaziNE. A Method of obtaining Natural Flowers in Winter, fresh blown any Day you please. THE moft furprising and unexpect. ed effects are fometimes produced by the most eafy and fimple means. Such is the method we are about to difclofe. Choose fome of the most perfect buds of the flowers you would preserve, fuch as are latest in blowing, and ready to open cut them off with a pair of fcif fars, leaving to each, if poffible, a piece of the ftem about three inches long: cover the end of the ftem im mediately with Spanish wax, and when the buds are a little fhrunk and wrinkled, wrap each of them up feparately in a piece of paper perfectly clean and dry, and lock them up in a dry box or drawer, and they will keep without corrupting. In winter, or at any other time, when you would have the flowers blow, take the buds over night, and cut off the end of the stem sealed with Spanish wax, and put the buds into water, wherein a little nitre or falt has been infused, and the next day you will have the pleafure of feeing the buds open and expand themselves, and the flowers difplay their most lively colours, and breathe their agreeable odours. XXXXXXX XXXXXX From the YOUNG LADY'S MAGAZINE. thread with a pair of feiffari s the fruits being thus detached from the tree with out touching the branches, or any thing eife, close the cut end of the stalk with upon it. Then roll up a sheet of white Spanish waxo to prevent the air acting t paper in the form of a cone, with a 1 little opening at the top theo this a perture país the thread tied to the fialk of the fruit, fo as that it may be fufes pended in the cone then close the cas perture with soft green wax, and fold in the paper at the bottom, and close and fecure it with wax in like manner, fo that the air may be effectually exclud ed, for if the air had access to the fruit, it would foon spoil and corrupt. The little cone inclosing the fruit may then be hung by the thread upon a nail in a dry temperate place, neither hot nor, cold, fo as it may not touch any thing, and by thefe means fruit, may be pres ferved quite found and perfect for twow or three years. Apples, pears, plumbs 1 cherries, and all fuch like fruits, mayb be well preferved in this manner. ~ I From the LADY'S MAGAZINE. HAPPINESS: Or the History of M. Ģ. Have been thirty-five years in pur fuit of happiness, and like moft other mortals engaged in the fame chace, find myself thrown out, as it were, and as distant from the object as at my first starting. You must know, Madam, that at the age of eighteen I came to this great métropolis, configned to the care of a rich uncle in a wholesale way of business. My attention and affiduity recommended me to his favour; and; after the expiration of eight years, during which time I had ferved him with diligence and fidelity, he took the refolution, being then in his fixty-fecond year, of retiring into the country, and put me in poffeffion of his trade and warehoufe. For twenty years I purfued his fteps with all the care, and (as the fafhionable word is) Oeconomy, that I was master of. During these 20 years of labour and fatigue, I was constantly envying the happy fituation of my un cle's retirement, and painted in my mind ten thousand beauties that his little box and fields all about in the country af forded him. I refolved to pay him a visit for three years fucceffively, before I had time, or, in other words, I had refolution to lay out fo much money as the journey would cost me; however, I arrived at laft, in the month of Auguft, at his little house near Salop. After the ufual questions of "how do ye do?" and what sort of a journey have you had fat and the like, he came to the main point. Well, George, what have you faved? How does your book ftand?". I told him I had realized fix thousand pounds, befides my stock in trade. The old gentleman with rapture cried out, "that's a good boy I now fhew you my grounds and fields with pleafure; follow me." As we walked on, you may easily conceive, that, after 20 years confinement in Lon don, every lawn, every dale, and every hill, afforded infinite pleasure and fatif faction to my mind; and I painted to myself a thousand raptures and enjoy ments, that my uncle must be poffeffed of in this his fituation. My bufinefs, Sir, foon demanded my return to town: but from the moment I came to my counting-house, inftead of giving attention to my books and trade, retirement was all in my thoughts, and it was the whole of my wishes. When I rose in the morning, if the fun was out, I was lamenting I had not fuch a fpot as my uncle's, where I might fee the force and powers of this wonderful luminary acting upon my flowers, fhrubs, and plants. If it rained, I lamented being in London, where I could not obferve the great utility of these refreshing fhowers to bring up the hay, corn, peafe, and beans, and other fruits of the earth. From these confiderations I determined at all events to quit my business, and retire into the country. I foon found a proper object to relign to, a diftant relation of my wife's, who had been bred to the fame bufinefs. After having fixed him properly in my warehouse, I looked out for my retirement; and as I had been used to drive my wife on a Sunday to Hampton, Dobbin dragged us to the Bell there without my ever thinking of it. But it was the fame thing to me. Upon enquiry I found a house was to be let, about a mile from the town, with every convenience that I wanted... This I thought would do, as I could come in my chaife to the Sunday night's club, fmoke ny pipe, and hear the news from my London friends, that come to pass the Saturday and Sunday nights. I took the house, and remained in it two years and a half: but, alas! I now found, instead of that happinefs which I expected from retirement, the hours between breakfast and dinner were miferably spent; neither could I contrive how to pass them away. My upholsterer, who furnished my houfe for me, told me, I muft have a good bookcafe, and What's-his-name, the philo biblian in Piccadilly filled it for me, But tho' I had Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Virgil, and fome poems by one Churchill, who they tell me is ftill alive, and a volume of the St. James's Magazine by R. Lloyd, M. A. I never looked into any of them. As to my land, I loft the first year more than double my rent: for I knew nothing of ploughing and sowing, though I fancied I knew better than the farmers all put together. Hunting, fishing, and fhooting could afford me no entertainment: for I never galloped after any thing but a brother tradefman on a Saturday afternoon, or Sunday morning or night. I never wished to draw other fifh to my met, that is customers to my fhop, than thofe gudgeons who would pay fauce for it: tho' a militiaman, I never let off a gun in my life. I fhould faint at the fmell of powder. I determined therefore to be nearer London, nearer my friends, and yet enjoy my retirement too. For this purpose I took a house by Vauxhall, with fome land, which I intended to improve: but instead of turning my thoughts up. on that, I was anxious to know how the warehouse and my young relation went do, without fee or reward: but experi A lamentable new Song. To the Tune of the Dead Peal, tolled the Day of the Addrefs of the Locum Tenens. G OD profper long, our noble King, The times,my friends, the times d'ye see, Imprimis,—that's a Latin word, And means both first and one, There's Item, the Address so fine, went on, Accordingly, as foon as breakfast was over, I used to cross the bridge, and had more fatisfaction in walking round the warehoufe, and feeing the old spot where I had made my money, than all the beauties of Vertumnus and Pomona. I put in thefe XXXXXXXXXXXXXX hard names on purpose to convince you, that I was bred at Pole's fchool. Practice gave an habit: and under pretence of feeing how my relation went on, I. went every day to the old fhop: and now I find, that not being content with being the real matter, I am now at the age of fifty, really and truly, his foreman or journeyman. Habitude has made every other scene of life taftelefs and infipid to me; and I as conftantly find myfelf in his warehouse at eleven in the morning, as if I was paid for it, and had no other fupport. Now Madam for the moral. My own practice will fhew the extreme folly of ftriking out, new paths, at my age, unfuitable to the mind and education: it will fhew alfo, how very few are capable, from the weaknefs of their understanding and incapacity of reflecting, to bear that retirement which all men of bufinefs are in pursuit of as the certain means of their happiness. Let not, therefore, thofe, who have been used to an active life, think of finding happiness in a rural fituation, till they are fure that their mind can relish it. Pleafure and pain are greater in imagination than in reality; and however tirefome or difagreeable a man may imagine his own burthen to be, was he to exchange it with his neighbour, he would find that load but little different from that which he defigned to throw off from his own fhoulders. A rural retirement to a man that has been in active fcenes in London, I am fure must be a ftate of mifery. Half our pleasure in this world is owing to our imagination; and though I fançied a retirement was happinefs, while I was in poffeffion of its miferable alternative, I am now in a manner come back to my old warehoufe, to the aftonishment of my friends and acquaintance. I, indeed, get nothing by it, as I work even harder than I used to Its confequential merits; But by eight City spirits. Some folks faid, Yes, and fome faid, No, And spoke with much vehemence ; If he went, brothers, we will go, So get a Locum Tenens... Refolving then to make a show, Into their carrs they shuffled, And then the bells rang muffled. And then they made their way to Court, And there each made his bow, Sir; And there they made a little fport, 'Cause they made little fhow, Sir. Along the Strand, mov'd the parade, While hiffes ;-but no hifs was made In Aldermannic order; 'Gainft Sheriff's, Clerk, Recorder. Prefs'd by their places, they addrefs'd, Duty no man difgraces; The BEAUTIES of all the MAGAZINES ''' SELECTED, For JULY, 1763. The COMIC CHRONICLE of the TIMES. N CHAP. I. OW it came to pass in those days, that ONE WILLIAM PITT, a man after the Lord's own heart, was elected Prefident; and behold, from that time, the Genius of England lifted up her head; and began to fhew figns of recovery. The name of an ENGLISHMAN once more bore a refpectable found. The .Dutch ceafed to deride us; our infidious foes called out, Cave. Juftice drew her sword on our fide; and Refentment rung the alarm bell throughout the nation. Courage took the command; Unanimity led our land and fea forces to battle; Glory gave the word; Intrepidity clofed our files, Britons frike home was our war fong; and Honour crowned the arms of England with Victory. When, lo! the word of Quietness came forth.-And the bleffing of Peace was ordered to be propagated among us. For thus faith the people, who fhould know better; we shall ruin ourfelves by our gains; we win too many places; what shall we do with what we've got? The more we conquer, the more must we give up therefore will we be in PEACE, and be no longer out of Pocket. Now the great men of this nation.but verily, thus faith the fan of Shimei -who are thofe great men? number VOL. II. me if thou canft, the great men of the London-Manor. Have we not great Eaters, and great Drinkers? we have great Wits, and great Liars; great Gamblers, and great Titles; great Pedants, and great Slovens; great Fools, and great Fortunes; great Ladies, and great -; but the rest of these greatneffes of this age, will be written in the chapter of Oppofitions. A' CHA P. II. ND it came alfo to pass, that the world was likened unto a Horfe race; and moreover the English Breed was made famous for their Bottom, throughout all the kingdoms of the earth. Notwithstanding which, the French Riders got the whip-hand of us; aur groom was flung out of the faddle; and by the force of the fiend FACTION, WE were drove on the wrong fide the post. At this time the men of the South, and the men of the North, started for the king's Plate, but the fouthern people complained they were joftled; tlierefore they would go to law; and the caufe was tried in the Great Hall of Liberty, viz. MAJORITY verfus MINORITY; and the Minots were taft in cofts of fuit. Then, behold, upftarted the NORTH BRITON; and he declared himself Confervator for the people; and many fevere things he faid; and many fevere things were said against him. |