The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1798-10-08 00:00:00, page 4

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SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.;
« TO RAISE THE GENIUS, ARD TO MFNDTH^ HBAPT.”
THE Batata;
fr^" FOR THE MIRRORS
FROM A LANDSCAPE.
^T^-^/SH.
LET ratretir'd, remote from wars atoms,
Beyoudtbc focret dread of bejfiU arfefr
In ,&ft fairf^ of verdant Cyprus rove,
Wfo ft&Wdf^frrfiil & ¥{
gr^vs;''.-
Wheretbt tall fine uproars taft&d, bead,
Aad fragrant styles their jdmt branches
„rcad;\,
Where filhz firtaw in fiver torrents glide,,
And waft gold pebbles /rem the meuntail'b;
#;^ f/ ? ^,
From fora? Balaman tower, where Cynthia's
,foam ; '%;:' e o r ™ ,''
Rears her ,ale trident o'er joss lucid ,ream ;
Wrapt in dee, Jelttude, ft:, e„s I'd <af,
O'er )tas uvtftd by thi rowing blafl.
There night's lent bird from borrer's gloom,
, cave,
Oren the green turf of feme hermit's grave,
With horrid ,ell her fad complaints declare,
There bearing fairies dance in midnight dir.
Before the fun ex,ellsthe fades of night,
Andgilds,ex horizon with beaming hght ;
E'er his bright rays bad ting'd the dew, lawn,
I, like the jovial lark, would bail the morn ;
These to fame lonel, grove with jo, repair,
And feed m, tender fleck withfoe,herd's care.
Under,on greenwood tree I'd,afs the day,
Where Ssl's bright beam had never forc'd its
Seen as the God withdraws bis beaming light,
E'er eve unfurls her dismal fades of night ;
B, thefirfl twilight of departing day,
While marching homeward on m,,olitar, way;
Tdbear the evening bird her ditt, tell,^
And th,fewest warbling of the Philomel.^
VIROLET.
From tbe Oracle of the Day.
L INE S . fo^
INSCRIBED TO MISS NANCY H.
'T" y °° dear Nancy, who my pen
infoices; ... &
And wakes rcy paffious to Love's nobler
•fires.
For as I view your matchiefs beauties
o'er, \ #
My bosom beats, with pulse urknown
;'':,'/. before. ^ "f^'y/\
The Muses listen, whi!ft your fong' you
raise,
Then strive (in vain) to imitate your lays.
Again they try, but soon their harps are
Then blushing, bow to your superior ikill.
Thus sp a ke Apollo, bending from his
throne ~ 'CT''
" Music to you its greatest charms must
own."
And when you swell your fwtet, melodious
Drains %
A thrilling tiahfport, glides thro' all my
If I but hear your dear enchanting name,
Myev'ty nerve revibrates thro'my frame.
,How great your virtues, and attrading
With hgven born charms which deck
your lovely face.
. No .affection falls four godlike mind ;
i'Notcufd deceit, ^^,, admittance
-
From envy free, to Hinder quite un
known,!
From pride exempt, as ev'ry aaion's
Tour genrious Jou!, your kfod, benevo
^^ft.
Nor ^r^ 10 ?'° ^ a "
Yotigreat tar dm while mine 4.
ri lode ,
To look propitious, and fade once on
Then 1 lulywiu
''^
From an English PaprWw
•„— —..ft-
Atetter from a faeces,til Ad,
venturer in a Lottery.
^ri^ I ^^ '
VOV will not be at all fer^
X prised when I tell you
that I have had Yety ill luck
in the lottery ; but you will
(Lire when I further tell you,
it is because unluckily I have
got a considerable prizes I
received the glad tidings of
misfortune last Saturday night
from your Chronicle, when;
on looking over the lift of
prizes, as I was hot behind
my pipe A' the club, I found
thaf my ticket was come up
a 20001. In the pride as
well as joy of my heart, I
could not help proclaiming
to the company— my good;
luck-—-as I then fooltihly
thought it, and as the com
pany thought it too, by in
lifting that I should treat
ffiem this evening. Friends
are never so merry, or flay
longer, than when they have
nothing to pay; they never
care too how extravagant they
are on such an occasion. Bot
tle after bottle was therefore
called for and that too of clar
et, tho' not one of us, I be
lieve, but had rather have
had port. In short, I reeled
home as well as I could about
four in the morning ; when
thinking to pacify my wife,
who began to rate me (as u
sual) for flaying out so long,
1 t 4 ; her the occasion of it;
but instead of rejoicing, asL
thought she would, ffie cried
,-" Pithy only two thousand
pounds !" However, (he was
at last reconciled to it, taking
care to remind me, that she
was all along sure it would
come up a prize, becaufethe
number was an odd one. We
neither of us got a wink of
sleep, though Ofts heartily
inclined to it ; for my wife
tept me awake by telling me
of this, that, and t'other thing,
which she wanted, and which
she would now purchase, as
we could afford it. f.^%ri
Iknow net how the news
of my success spread so soon
among my other acquaint
ance, except that my wife told
it to every one she knew, or
net knew, at church. The
confequenc. was, that I had
''ityfe^ seven vdfy heff-
Friends come to dine witti
us, byway of Wiflyng us joy ;
and- the Number of those
fe^ frie&is was increafe£
to a^ve a%zen by fupper|
12ri0 ril>^< ^l^^
time. It it kind in one'i friend)
to be willing to partake us ort'r
te&fa , they made themfekei
very merry; literally at my ex
penfe ; and at parting, told me
they wou'd bring force more
friendly tpd hive another folly"
evening with me on this hippy
occasion.
When they were gboeffmade
sift to get a little deep, though I
was ohen difturbyd by my wife
talking in her deep. Her head it
feemi literally ran upon wheels,
that is, the lottery wheels ; she
frequently called cut that she had
got the loaool. she muttered se
veral wild and incoherent expref
fioro about gowns, aed rvffi& and
ear-ring.?, and necklaces; and I
once heard her mention th^ word
coach. In the morning when 1
get up, how was t surprised to
find m, good fortune published
to all the world in the newspaper!
though 1 could not but smile (and
madam was greatly ft!sfao ft" the
printers exalting me to the digni
ty of E/quire, hiving been nothing
but plain Mr. all m, life before. -
fl And now the misfortunes arib
ing from my good fortune began
W pour inthick upon me. so
consequence of the information
given in the eewlpaper, we were
no sooner fat down at breakfaft,
than we were complimented with
a rat-ta-coo from the drums, as if!
we had been, just married : After
these hid been silenced by the life
al method, another band of music
saluted us with a peal from the
marrowboner'aM <0 'be
fame tune. I was hmaffed the
whole di, with petitions from tbe
hospital boys that drew the ticket,
the commiffiopers'clerk that wrote
down the ticket, and the clerks of
the office where 1 bought the tick-,
&, all of them praying, " that my
Hmr would confider them." I
Should be glad you would infarfo
me what these people would have
given me if I had had a blank.
My acquaintance in general call
ed to know, when they (hould
fait upon me to wet m, good
fortune. M, own relations, and
my wife's relations, came in such
fhoalt to congratulate me, that I
hardly knew the faces of many of
them. One insisted oa my giving
a piece of plate to hb wife {an
other recommended to me to put
his little boy (my two and fortieth
coufic) Out apprentice ; another,
tetely white wafad, proposed to
me my fating him up again ip
bwfinefs ; and fever,! of them very
kindly told me, they would bor
row three or four hundred pounds
of me, u they knew I could now
spare it
My wife io the mean time, you
may be fureowas not idle in con
triving how Fdifpafe of this new
acquisition. She found out, in
the firft placed (according to the
Q ^ ^ women) that
she bad not got a gotta to her
t^ least riot one fit for her
now to appear in.; Her wardrobe
of honen was no left deficient ;
i'n°cur futkit^e^^ in the
I articles of ntoe china. Shill
also determined to fa a little ple&
fure;an the calls it, and bateaufy
made a party to go to the next
opera. Now, in order ro fuppiy
these immediate wants :nd necef
fifiei )fhe has prevailed on me (tho'
at great loft) to turn the prize into
ready money , which I dared not
refufe her, terete 'he number was
her own chocAng : And the has
further peffuaded me (at we have
had such good luck) to lay out a
great ,rt of the produce in pur
chafieg more tickets, all of her
own choofiog. To me it is indif
ferent which way the moaey goes;
for, upon m, making cut the bal
ance, [already find I (hall be a
lefer io my grins: And all my
fear is, that one of rhe tickets may
come op a live thousand or ten
thoofind.
I am your very bumble fefv'r.
Jeoffert Chance.!
P. S. lam just going to club—
I hope they won't define me to
treat them ?giio.
roHffiffifltmtt HFmCTBmCTCT Mm
Banquet or Camus.
111
Law Anecdote,
SOMETIME before the abo!i_
tien of the Jefair,, a gentte
timlin Paris died, „d, left all his
estate from ah oply son then ,-
broad, to chat body of religious
men, on condition that, pn hit re
turn, the worthy fathers should
give him—whatever they should
chufe.— When the fan came home,
he went to the convent, and rec eiv
ed a very (mail (litre indeed , the
wife font of ttyba ebufag to keep
the greatest part to themselves.
The young gentleman cocfalted
his friends, and all agreed he was
without remedy. At lift a Bar
rister, to whom he happened to
mention his case, advited him to
sue the convem^iod promised to
gain him his cause. The gentle
mao followed his advice ; and
the fait terminated in his Favor
fthrough the management of tty
advocate, who grounded his p'ea
on this reasoning :— *' The tefta
tot” fays he, “ has left his son
that (hare of the estate which the
fathers should cbafa Now %
; jiaio what pay they have cho/et,
by what they keep to themfehr#.
My client then ftardi on the
words of the will, L^t me have,
fays he, the part they have chafe.
and I am fatUfied." It was ate
cording!, awarded to him .witb
out htfiutton, ^CH
A CERTAIN Lady being at
AL tea with her companion, ex
clairoed, O dw ! this tea is too
ftroog for my head, it feels weak
this morning; " my dear," ftid
her hcfband, " that & nothing
Orange, w^men, heads are always
weak , yes my lord, said fam
cording to scripture they are, for
we read, that the bead of the wo-
ENGLISH IMPRO^MLNr. % )
I FRENCHMAN very politel, cb.
French were tbe firft inventors of that
tairtifulomamtntthe Kfl, whichthe
ladd^tha V^^