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HE EMERALD.

A very hard-trotting horse, who cut cards, &c. and of the latter with sets off before you have discovered bits of cork, shaped out as you can, that the stirrups are too long to as-burning out the dots with a red-hot sist you in humouring his jolt ;--then, fork, which, in your hurry, occasionally jerks off, and drills a deuce or two extrying in vain to stop him. traordinary in your hand

Beguiling a long distance in a carriage, at night, over an execrable road, with a drinken coachman, jaded horses md frightened ladies.

At the moment when your horse is beginning to run away with you, losing your stirrup-which runs away too; and bangs your instep raw, as often as you attempt to catch it with your foot.

Being mounted on a beast who, as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very coolly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrances on the subject.

A coach-window-glass, that will not he put up when it is down, nor down when it is ap.

Ned Tes

"Even then this forked plague is fated

to us,

When we do quicken."

This is Horace's

"Periculosa plenum opus alea." with a vengeance!

Tes. I won't be interrupted, Ned!-he reads on)

-deuce or two extraordinary in your own hand; and when all is done, your dice might as well be cogged; for, from the great difference you have made in the breadth of their faces, they turn up, 99 times in 100, the same numbers.

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Your carriage-horses all at standing inflexibly still, just as you are entering, late in the evening, upon Hounslow-heath, with half your income in your pocket, and no pistols to guard

On opening your trunk, after a long journey, discovering that the snuff contained in an ill-packed canister, has "burst its cearments," and grimed it-it. self into your clean linen, &c.

On arriving at an inn, half-drowned, and half-frozen, in an open carriage, and eagerly flying for your life to the kitchen fire, as the warmest place-being, every instant, humped, bumped, hustled, bustled, scalded, and scolded, from your post, by a mob of red-hot cooks and scullions, waiters, &c. they are in the full fermentation of getting up two or three large dinners.

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Sen. There was both the "stare loco nescit," and the "et tremit artus." Virg.

Discovering, at the end of a long and fatiguing journey, that you have invol untarily lightened your carriage by leav ing, two or three hundred miles behind, the box of letters, papers, accountbooks, &e. which constituted the solcobject of your expedition.

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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL IN

TLLIGNCE.

Mr. Henry Siddons has prepared for Tes. In a bleak ride-to be kept immediate publication a full and copious freezing at a turnpike-gate for half an work on the Theory of Gesture and hour, while you fumble in your pocket, with a thick glove on. (which you have Action, which is to be illusrated by The not courage to take off) for pence to upwards of sixty engravings of characpay your fingers being so cold, that, teristic figures, by an amateur. even without a glove, they could not foundation of his Treatise is the wellfeel the difference between a handker-known work of M. Engel, which he has in a certain degree translated, with chief and a halfpenny. Evening relaxation for two, at a bad such variations and additions as the innon asking for a back gammon-practice of rhetoric in England renderboard, seeing one brought in, in ruinsthe men half lost, and the dice quite ; if you are still bent on playing, you supply the deficiency of the former with wafers, pocket-pieces, lip-salve-boxes,

ed necessary,

Dr. Croth, Lecturer on the Science of Music at the Royal Institution, proposes to publish the first volume of Specimens of various Styles of music.

THE L

Mr. Johnes, the translator and pub-men, who lisher of Froissart, is engaged in a new lets and laws printed there. version of Joinville.

Dr. Gilbert Geyard's Institutes of Biblical Criticism, read in the University and King's College, Aberdeen, are

in the press.

Mr. Nicholson has in his Journal given directions by which a person may save himself from drowning, if he chance to fall into the water. The results of Mr. Nicholson's reasonings are, that if a man fall into deep water, he will rise to the surface by floatage, and will continue there, if he does not elevate his hands, and that the keeping them down is essential to his safety. If he move his hands under the water in any way he pleases, his head will rise so high as to allow him free liberty to breathe. And if, in addition, he move his legs exactly as in the action of walking up stairs, his shoulders will rise above the water; so that he may use less exertion with his hands, or apply them to other purposes. He has himself been witness to the success of the experiment.

Demeter Alexandrides, . D. of Tyrnawa, in Thessaly, has translated Goldsmith's History f Greec modern Ceck. The first ve companied with a map of ancient Greece has already been published.

Two Greeks, the brothers Zozima, wards a new edition of all the ancient are applying part of their fortune toGreek, Classics from Homer down to the time of the Ptolemies, under the superintendance of their countryman Coray. This collection, which is to be printed by Didot, is intended for such of their countrymen as wish to learn the ancient language of their fore fathers. It will be delivered gratis in Greece to diligent scholars and active teachers; and a considerable discount will be allowed to such wealthy patrons of learning as buy copies for the pur pose of presenting them to poor students. (Mon. Mag.)

This

Kells Pitt, near Whitehaven, the property of Lord Lowther, has recently A Danish Dictionary, on a plan simi- undergone a thorough repair. lar to that of Dictionaire de l'Academie pit is 118 fathoms in depth from the Francoise, which is intended to fix the surface to the main band seam of orthography and form the standard of coals; and it is in other respects the the language, has for some time been most remarkable of any in the kingdom hand, and is already in some degree of for extent of field without interruption forwardness. It is undertaken at the from dykes, being from north to south expence, and conducted under the di-2400 yards, and from east to west, as rection, of the Royal Danish Society of already explored, above 1000 yards! the Sciences, and the most distinguish-It is also now extended upwards of 900 ed literati of the country are engaged yards under the sea, from high water in the execution of it, having divided mark, and is as promising as at the first among them the different letters of the working. alphabet.

In Prussia the potatoe is cultivated with peculiar success. As the stalk grows, the earth is heaped up, leaving only three leaves at top. The roots are thus greatly increased, and the produce is said to be astonishing.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

ing subject and executed it with great The Stranger has chosen an interestskill. We regret, not receiving the communication in time for this number.

The BATCHELOR will delay his far ther visits.

M.DE LA LANDè's annual medal for the best work on astronomy has been adjudged by the French National In- We inform "a friend" that we have stitute to M. Svannerg, a Swedish asalready had our attention on the learn tronomer, who has lately publisheded scetch of the history of literature by an Account of the measuring of a De-La Harpe, and if on consideration we gree in Lapland, shewing the error shall think its republication consisten that has been made in measuring it in with a necessary variety, shall be happ to enrich our numbers with so elegan and learned performance.

1736.

The Imperial printing establishment at Paris affords constant employment to 400. workmen, besides a number of wo

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THE METAMORPHOSED MOLE AND
THE LAMB.

Tis granted that no charm is seen,
More pleasing than a modest mein:
Yet nothing meets with more disgraces,
Than awkward airs and blushing faces,
This maxim as a medium hold,
Be not too backward, nor too bold.

A vagrant Lamb, to shun, one day,
The sun's intolerable ray,
Enter'd a cave. From out her hole,
Dusty and sad appear'd a Mole.

Each stares with wild, astonish'd look,
The Lamb at length the silence broke.
It ne'er has been my chance to find,
A friend so fashion'd to my mind;
No longer breathe this stifled air,
With me to healthy hills repair,
Come and enjoy the solar ray,
And bring your virtues into day;
The dewy lawn, the flowery field,
New raptures to your heart shall yield.
But why so slow? what fate severe
Has fix'd such worth and beauty here ?

My humble state the Mole replied,
Is owing to my want of pride.
For human nature once I knew,
I saw, I blush'd, and I withdrew.
A female's faultless form I bore,
That belles might envy, beaus adore.
But ever fearful to offend,

I sought no charm that airs could lend :
Yet scandal titter'd round the ring,
I felt the smart of envy's sting,
Yet for no secret vengeance pray'd:
To shun contempt I sought the shade.
Ah! where can innocence appear
Secure! for malice found me here.
Patience expired, with rage enflam'd
Irose, and impiously exclaimed:
Hide me, ye powers, from taunts & lies,
From sland'rous tongues and envious
eyes;

Let me beneath the ground be hurl'd,
Nor view the vices of the world.
Jove heard too soon the rash petition,
And placed me in this low condition.
Yet only changed my outward frame,
My disposition's still the same.

Shrunk to this mean and narrow bound
And doom'd to grovel in the ground;

My heart retains no wish to shine,
But loaths the human face divine.
Such is my fate, to me 'tis given
To hate the cheering orb of heaven.
Pomonia ripes her fruit in vain,
Tho' bounteous Ceres glads the plain,
Bacchus with rosy hand profuse,
Pours forth the tide of purple juice,
And Flora decks the fields with flowers,
Still nothing soothes my pensive hours;
Not I, however make my moan,
In sad despondency alone.
Thousands, who wit were known to in-
herit,

Have lost their sense for want of spirit.

They mostly are deserving praise,
Who court the world and know its ways.
What's wit, unknown to fostering taste?
A diamond in the watry waste.
What beauty, too, if none descry
Her love-insinuating eye?
A rose in desert wild, I ween,
That blossoms and decays unseen.
And when behold, how hard the case
Of beauty destitute of grace!
If artless innocence be seen
Without an elegance of mein,
How is her simple bosom torn,
With ridicule contempt and scorn.

She spoke, and underneath the clay
Incessant work'd her burrowing way.

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A LITTLE while, O traveller! lin- Behold these waves! ah! nevel at.

ger here,

And let thy leisure eye behold and see The beauties of the place; yon heathy hill [green: That rises sudden from the vale so The vale far streatching as the view

can reach

[here, Under its long dark ridge-the river That, like a serpent thro' the grassy mead, [sight: Winds on, now hidden, glitt'ring now in Nor fraught with merchant wealth, nor fam'd in song

This river rolls an unobtrusive tide;
Its gentle charms may sooth and satisfy
Thy feeling. Look, how bright its
pebbled bed

that bank

Cleams thro' the ruffled current; and [edg'd swords: With flag-leaves border'd as with twoSee where the water wrinkles round the stem

Of yonder water-lilly, whose broad leaf Lies on the wave; and art thou not refresh'd [stream? By the fresh odour of the running Soon, traveller! does the river reach the end [cent, Of all its windings; from the near asThou wilt behold the ocean where it pours [thou, Its waters, and is lost. Remember Traveller! that even so thy restless years

Flow to the ocean of eternity.

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stay!

How swift their course! how soon they glide away!

Each virgin's envy now, and lover's theme,

Thy beauties, Myra, are that fleeting

stream:

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TO THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS CONTAINED IN THE EMERALD,
VOL. 1, FOR 1806.

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