The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-05-27 00:00:00, page 4

Swift gliding on, to pay full tribute to
the main.
The cradled infancy his bed had left.
The Hitting fays were vaniih’d from
the bßw’rs;
Dame nature of her nursling all bereft.
No longer spread the ground with early
flow’rs ;
But bolder feenes her pencil wide difplay’d,
Where high aspiring woods outspread their
mighty Ihade.
Forth of these haunts iffu’daform more
bright,
Than the fair star the morning haft that
leads;
Youth, lofty youth, creation’s fond delight,
Full, of himfelf, and bent on highest
deeds;
Ready, alike to yield to pleasure’s claim,
Or soar on eag e’« wings, pursuing laurel’d
fame.
Sweetness and case on all his steps attend ;
With winning grace that seldom sues in
vain :
From him e’en wisdom can his bow unbend,
And rough philosophy relax the ft,rain ;
Envy herfeif admir’d his meet address,
Each charming pow’r she own’d, tho* wilh
ing each were left.
Sometimes ered, with ardent, fweVing
breast.
Urg’d on with honor and with vigor
croon’d,
Hope in his eye, pride tow’ring on his crest,
He spurs his courier at the trumpet’s
found :
In beauty’s cause, a bold and hardy knight;
Or meets his country’s foes, in fields of
bloody fight.
War, horrid war I for him can boast of
charms,
Pourtray’d at will by fancy’s varying
hand ;
His foul rejoicing in the loud alarms,
~ Tho’ at his fide deftruftion takes her
stand;
Death Ihakes his dart in vain, while glory
shows.
In borrow’d colours bright, the feene of
human woes.
Sometimes the Cyprian Queen, with gen
tle smiles, K .
Conduit his steps to ever blooming grove;
And silken foftnefs all his hours beguiles,
As o’er the magic Scenes he careleft
roves;
The spicy gales around him breathe per
fume,
From ev’ry fragrant flow’; while Healing
each perfume.
Love, gentled toother of the human heart,
Now bids his train the votive chaplets
bring;
For blythfome youth he draws his golden
dart,
A thousand pleasures load his purple
wing :
What, forms enchanting follow in his train !
What joys on joys press on, to deck his ear
ly reign I
Yet did I fee thee green ey ’d monster there,
With many a fiend lie lurking dole in
wait:
These fcoul’d averse; while to the profped
fair
Hymen still points, Ihaking his torch e
’ '
Each fcoul’d averfe* Youth eagerly prefd
on,
Poet’s Corner.
' THE FOUR
YOUTH.
WHILE thus the golden profpeft
fmil’d around,
The warbling birds in fuller concert fang;
And the majetticinQuntarns fpreft crown’d.
With (pring’s own tweetcft voice me
lodious rang ;
More copious while each river drew his
train.
For *ver w be ble&’d-4-or finally undone.
So yon trim vessel spreads her wanton fails;
So, proudly o’er the calmer wa^er glides.
Courting thefanning, air, the farming gale.
That waft her gently o’er the swelling
tides j
Yet verging towards the main, e’er long to
find
Far different fcenei, I ween—the fportof
ey’ry wind.
Love, &iendfhip, joy, thus *ll their charms
difpiay,
Or (eym to offer in youth’s vig’roos course ;
Clothe his fleet hoars, and brighten up hit
While nature yet imparts her genial
orcti
Til| to matorer yedatie hoftef apace,
For nwoHoo^sr ipan’d strength exchanging
youthful grace.
Now what is the (difference in
people as to their nride, vanity., felf
approbation, or what else we pteafe
to call it ? I t^hk the difference
lies more in the extent of a man’s
reputation, th^n in the degree of
his vanity. I fpmetimes look in
to human nature; indeed 1 take
ftFW at U almolt every day, and
I don’t f?e much difference in the
degree of pride in people’s hearts.
They are proud in their ways.—
The Clergyin the pulpit, and
the Lawyer at the bar, d elight to
be admired for their arguments
and eloquence; they often cafta
teeming cardpfs look around Up
on the audience, to patch the eye
of approbation 5 and fau^the/m
--cenfe of applause. But are these
men more fond oLpraife than the
cartman who drives a better horse
Just as I was writing this, my
jbropm maker. Came to the door.
“ Now” fays he to my wife (for
my wife manages all family mat
ters) “ this is the best broom £ ey
£r made. Upon my honour; it
is true M^am> £ always make
better brooms than any body efle,
but this is my best. Why, Mad
am, £ make brooms for all the
gentry in New-York and Boflon
and Philadelphia; try ft Madam,
it will put last half a dozen Dutch
hfuihes: indeed it will.” So much
1 over heard, and enough in all
conscience to afford me this re
flection, th# a man may be as
proud of making brooms, as Jphn
was of his military prowess, or
Furnofa of her canrbric curtains.
“T ORD,whaca proud haughty
| 4 prig our neighbour John
is 1 always telling what he did
when he was in the army; how he
headed such a platoon of such a
company in such an action ; how
brave he was, he would not let a
man flinch, not he, not a file of
men in the army behaved so well;
with two thousand such men he
would engage to take Cornwallis
and all his army.—Such prat
ing and boasting is enough tp make
one sick.” Fumola had just flop
ped berathingher neighbor John,
when her fnend Cyhthia called
upon her. After the ufuai cere
mony of how do you do—doing
was over, fays Furnofa, “ toy cur
tains are doAe, the upholftefer, a
faithlefs mortal, has promised and
disappointed me, I know not how
many times ; but the curtains are
done, thank fortune ; and (o ele
gant I—Lord Ma’am, will you
step up ft airs and look at them ?
lam sure you will like them ; I
went all over the town for the fin
eft cambric j and so beautifully
wrought. “You amaze me, fays
Cynthia; what cambric curtains?
I never saw any in my life,*’
Oh! I believe so: I am sure
of that; for I would not have
curtains like other folks ’ Blefsme,
what chintz and fiik and such
common fluff I No, I’ll assure you
1 have the richest suit of curtains
in town : Aye, what does the
writer mean by all this? Oh!
nothing more than this, Futnofa
was a moment before berathing
her neighbour John for his pride
—That’s all.
The TIMES.
than his neighbour? “ Bravo”
cries Jonathan, “my horse will
draw a ton weight from the dock
to kny part of the town, three hun
dred weight more than any other
man’s horse in town will draw.”
He boasts and triumphs among
his comrades, as much as neigh
bour John of his warlike feats,
or Furnofa of her curtains.
Shoes 1 fays thereafter of a Ihoe
manufactory । there is not* such a
(hoc intown, such leather; so well
made; so neat, so tasty, if you
want ftoes come to me for them.
Look at that Hoop, fays Boat
swain : such a sailer; how Ihe fits
in the water like a duck ! Bless
me how I can run round every
packet in the found I 1 can beat
old Sam to atoms. We tried it
last fumtber, I let him get well a
head, then set my topsail and fly
ing jib, and out studding fails.
Lord, I left him astern in twenty
minutes and before night he was
out of fight.
But how is it with the book ma
ker, is not he more vain than oth
er people ? Why indeed book
makers, especially rhymesters, are
allowed to have a good Ihare of
felf fatisfaflion. But look ye,
friend ; the man who writes, puts
his vanity on record ; the man who
speaks vanity, speaks it in the air.
The vanity of a man is some-times
estimated by the number who are
acquainted with it; this makes a
mighty difference indeed!
The man vfhocommitsa crime,
and breaks a jail, is as proud of
the address he does it with, as a
General who takes an army by
stratagem; but one is concealed
from all except half a dozen broth
er ruffians, and the other is pub
lifted and repeated by all the
world.
Anecdote of Lord Heathfield,
THIS diftinguifted General
being once on a visit in the
country, near a vilage, at a barn,
in which a company of ftrbWng
players had taken their quarters,
cpudefcended, accompained by
some of the neighbouring gentry,
to honour the play with his
presence, when the excellent tra
gedy of Tamerlane, and the enter
tainment of the Stage Coach, were
attempted. The play was ftock
ingly mangled, but the entertain
ment was 6 egregiously mistaken,
and grossly perverted, that no
body could fell what it was intend
ed to represent. After the per
formance was over, the Manager
of the company came forward to
pay his compliments to the gentry
for the honour of their pretence.
His Lordftip desired him co in
form him what the entertainment
he had just was called; hut
the ^fanager mistaking the quefr
tion, and conceiving his Lordftip
wanted to befpeah a play, answer
ed, “ What play would your
honour pteate3o choofe?’* His
Lordftip repeated the question,
and the Manager told him, it was
the Stage tftttrh, “l am glad of it 4 ’’
replied his Lordft ip, “ and desire
you would inform me when you
intend using it again, as f mean to
be ari pptfide ,passenger.”
TO be fold at public Ven* • J.
due on Wednesday the ißth of May
instant, er the dwelling-house of Stephen
Lamfon Innholder in Exeter, about Twen4
ty Acres of pasture land, situate at a place
called the neck in laid Exeter, bounded
Northerly, on the road that leads to Kim
ball’s bridge so called, Westerly and South
erly, on land Os Nath’l Gilman Esq. and
Easterly on land lately Capt. John Odlin’i
deceased.
Extier^ Maj 12, 1794.
REfpeftfully informs the
public, that he ihall continue the
Rout which Mr. Cram has rode as Pott,
Er the purpose of fuppfylhg the Coftotfjen
with The .Amtricah Htrald as Liberty 1 his
Rout <0 commence the ift of July, Whfcn
will be di {charged with punctuality, and
all favours gratefully acknowledged.
g3?Thoft who wish their papers to
difeontinue, are desired ta lodge their
names where their papers are left, by
the 20ch of June next, otherwise they
will be continued as ufuai.
Exeter, tath May tygfr
WARRANTEE Deeds,
Quitclaim do* • -
Justice’s Writs & Summons^
Do. Executions, printed on
very good paper —Likewfe,
Writing-paper and Writ*
ing- books of various kinds
may be had at this Prihting-
Office.
'JuftPiMjhed, (Pricey pence.)
And for fab at St® ar ns & WiNttow'*
That beautiful SyC
, tem of Morality—
THE
WHOLE DUTY
( OF
WOMAN.
■* 1 i ii, .. , ■■■■-■ it
Paper-Rags.
CASH, Writing-Paper, or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen Rags at this
Office.
Nailing Bufinefsy
at the fliop on the Great Bridge, Exeter*
formerly occupied by Mr. Samuel Gilman.— ■
Where he can supply any Gentleman with
NAILS, of every kind, on the shortest no
tice, and at a very reasonable price.
He deems it heedleis to fay any
thing farther in favor of his Nails, than where
they have been used, he has the Joiner’s
particular approbation, of good, mer
chantable Nails.
Exeter; May nth, 1794.
Wanted., two or three
Likely Spring PI GS*
Enquire of the Printers.
STRAYED or Stolen from me »he fub
fcribfer, the 7th. infianr, a red Mare
with a white face, four White feet, and
wall eyis, thirteen or fourteen hands high;
trots and paces. Whoever will give infor
mation of said Mare, or return her to the
owner, shall receive the above reward, and
all necessary charges paid.
jBeGS leave to inform his
friends and the public. That he has lately
established the
BLANKS.
SIMON SANBORN.
Hampten, May 17941
Public Vendue.
Two Dollars Reward.
Enoch Rowe,
David Morie,