...or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back, His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it." You will soon be ashamed to love one for whom you have not a high esteem. Love will only follow esteem....

...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.' We have heard from very good authority that a corrected and im- : proved copy of these verses is in...

...polite, The same we practis'd at first sight, Must save it from declension. Some Some act upon this prudent plan, " Say little and hear all you can —...but hateful — So barren sands imbibe the show'r, Hut render neither fruit nor flow'r. Unpleasant and ungrateful. The man I trust, if shy to me, Shall...

...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your bacfc How he efteems your merit, Is fuch a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. As fimilarity of mind, Or fomething not to"be defined, Firft fixes our attention ; So manners decent...

...Tom or Jack, •And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear if. As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defin'd, First fixes our attention ; So manners decent...

...Tom or Jack, A'ltl proves by thumps upon your back. How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed TO pardon or (o bear it, As similarity of mind, Or something not to be defin'd, Fiist fixes our attention ; So manners...

...Tom, or Jack, And proms by thumping on your back His sense of your great merit, Is such a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. Some VARIATIONS. XXIV. 3. To finish a fine building. 5 If he could possibly forget, XXV. 3. First fixes...

...Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he efteems your merit, Is fuch a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it. As fimilarity of mind, Or fomething not to be defined, Firft fixes our attention ; So manners decent...

...and polite, The fame we practifed at firft fight, Muft fave it from declenfion. Some act upon this prudent plan, " Say little and hear all you can." . Safe policy but hateful — So barren fands imbibe the fhower, But render neither fruit nor flower, Unpleafant and ungrateful. The man I...

...Tom, or Jack, And proves by thumping on your back His fenfe of your great merit, Is fuch a friend that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon, or to bear it. XXvII. Some friends make this their prudent planSay little, and hear all you can, Safe policy, but...