Deserted at his utmost need With downcast look the joyless victor sate, The various turns of fate below; The mighty master smil❜d to see Take the good the gods provide thee. Gaz'd on the fair Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Now strike the golden lyre again; And rouse him like a rattling peal of thunder. Has rais'd up his head; As awak'd from the dead, Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise, See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in the air, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes! Each a torch in his hand; These are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain, Behold how they toss their torches on high, To light him to his prey, And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute; Timotheus to his breathing flute, And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, With nature's mother wit, and arts unknown before. Or both divide the crown; She drew an angel down. DRYDEN. CHAP. XXVIII. ON THE DEATH OF MRS. THROCKMORTON'S BULFINCH. YE nymphs! if e'er your eyes were red Where Rhenus strays his vines among, Or only with a whistle blest, The honours of his ebon poll Were brighter than the sleekest mole; With which Aurora decks the skies, Above, below, in all the house, Well lattic'd-but the grate, alas! But smooth with wands from Ouse's side, Night veil'd the pole. All seem'd secure, A beast forth sallied on the scout, Long back'd, long tail'd, with whisker'd snout, He, ent'ring at the study door, It's ample area 'gan explore; And something in the wind Just then, by adverse fate impress'd, For, aided both by ear and scent, He left it--but he should have ta'en: Maria weeps-The Muses mourn--- THE END. Stereotyped and printed by A. WILSON, COWPER. This Day are published, printed in the same size as the SPEAKER, price 3s. 6d. bound. EXERCISES IN ELOCUTION; selected from the best authors, and disposed under proper heads, with a view to facilitate the improvement of youth in reading and speaking, as well as to lead young persons into some acquaintance with the most valuable writers, and impress upon their minds the sentiments of honour and virtue.-Intended as a sequel to a work, entitled, THE SPEAKER. BY W. ENFIELD, LL. D. Pnted for J. JOHNSON, No. 72, St. Paul's Churchyard, and the rest of the Partners in the Genuine Edition of the SPEAKER; where may be had the following valuable Works. Published by JOHN BONNYCASTLE, Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Academy, Woolwich. 1. THE SCHOLAR'S GUIDE TO ARITHMETIC. Pr. 2s. 6d. bound. 2. AN INTRODUCTION TO MENSURATION AND PRACTICAL GEOMETRY. Price 4s. bound. 3. AN INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA. Price 4s. bound. 4. A POPULAR INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY, with Plates Price gs. boards. 5. THE ELEMENTS OF GEOMETRY, containing the principal propositions in the first six, and the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid; with notes critical and explanatory. Price 6s. bound. 6. AN INTRODUCTION TO TRIGONOMETRY. Pr. 12s. boards. Published by J. WALKER, many years Teacher of Elocution in London. 1. OUTLINES OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR, calculated for the use of both sexes at school. Price 3s. bound. 2. ENGLISH THEMES AND ESSAYS; or, The Teacher's Assistant in English Composition. Price 4s, bound. 3. ENGLISH CLASSICS ABRIDGED; being select parts of MILTON, ADDISON, and POPE, adapted to the use of both sexes, in schools or private tuition. Price 5s. bound. 4. THE ACADEMIC SPEAKER; or, A Selection of Debates, Orations, Odes, Scenes, and Speeches, from the best writers, proper to be read and recited by youth at school. Price 4s. bound. 5. THE ELEMENTS OF ELOCUTION. Price 7s. boards. 6. THE RHETORICAL GRAMMAR. Price 78. boards. 7. A KEY TO THE CLASSICAL PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK, LATIN, AND SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES, in which the words are accented and divided exactly as they ought to be pronounced, 73, in boards. |