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There is a like deficiency in the follow- 

 ing Greek epigiam : it is here alfo necef- 

 fary to prefix a title: — 



On the Sratue of Niohe. 

 'Fit ^»)D? fji.t &£oi Tiv^av ^i9c»' 'ex ii XtSoi®' 



Alive, the gods could into ftone transform j 

 Of ftone, Praxiteles with life infonii. 



But it is a far greater defefl to omit the 

 fecor.d part, or point, which is the ca(e 

 with leveral epigrams in the anthology, 

 and which at firit fight appears to be tlie 

 cafe in the folloiving German epigram, al- 

 though it in reality conceals a flurp (ling : 

 You alk an epigram, and on yourfelf; 



My wit is out of joint: 

 But you can laugh fo glibly, fo at nothing, 



'Twill do without a point. 



DR. HECTOR AND HIS PATIENTS. 



and honed fieedom is the privilege of in- 

 genuity 5 and the mind whi':h is ;<bove the 

 practice of deceit can never ftoop to a 

 wiUingnefs to flitter. Give me leave. 

 Madam, to remark, that the conneiflion 

 luWfilling between your hu(band and my- 

 i'elf is of a nature too ftrong for me to 

 think of injuring him in a point where 

 the happinefs of his life is fo materially 

 concerned. Ycu cannot be infenfible of 

 his goodnefs, or my obligations; and 

 futfer me to obferve, Madam, that, were 

 I capable of fiich an aftion, at the time 

 that my behavi-ur m^ght he rewaideil by 

 your paflion, I mult be defpifed by your 

 reafon ; and though I might be elteemcd 

 as a lover, I muft be hated as a man. 



" Highly fenfible, Madam, of the 

 power of your beauty, I am determined 

 to avoid an intervi/w where my reputa- 

 Vou have paf- 



tion may be for ever lo(t 

 Dr. Heaor, a famous phyfician among Cp„,^ y„^ f^y^ Madain, but give me leave 

 the dames ot London in Lord Bacon's jp gnfwer, that you have underftanding 



time, when they complained tiiey were 

 they could not tell how, but yet they 

 could not endure to take any medicines, 

 would tell them, their way was only to be 

 fick, for then they would be glad to take 

 any medicine. 



TEA-URNS. 



Tea-urns pafs for a modern and a Bri- 

 fifli invention : their application only is 

 new. I have feen am- ng the findings at 

 Pompeii, prefei ved in the mufeum of Por 



alio : you have a heart fufceptible of the 

 tendered impreffions, but a foul, if you 

 would choo!e to wake it, above an un- 

 warranted indulgence of them ; and let 

 me intreat you, for your own fake, that 

 no giddy impuife of an ill-placed inclina- 

 tion may induce you to entertain a 

 thought prejudicial to your honour and 

 repugnant to your virtue. I, madam, 

 am far from infenfible ; I too have pafTi- 

 cnsi and could my fituation a fewyears 



tici, an urn containing a hollow metallic gg^ have allowed me a poffibility of fuc 



happinefs you are now ready to beftow. 

 I had the honour, Madam, of fuppingat 



Mr. D s's, where I firftfaw you, atjd 



rtiall make no fcruple in declaring, that I 

 never faw a perfon fo irrefutable, or a 

 manner Co exceflively engaging; but the 

 funeriority of your circuraftances pre- 

 vented any declaration on my fide, and 

 though I burned with a flame as (hong 

 as ever filled human breaft, I laboured to 

 fupprefs, or at lead Itudied to conceal it. 



" Time and abi'ence at length abated 

 an unhoping paflion, and your marriage 

 with my pitron and friend effeftually 

 cured it. D;i not now, I befeech you. 



cylinder, for the infertion of a red-hot 

 iron, in wiiich water was thus kept boil- 

 ing. The whole apparatus, in form and 

 (frufture, clofely refembles our own uten- 

 fils. Hero, in his Pneumatica, defcribes 

 this machine by the rinme ant be f>fa. Cice- 

 ro nitiilions it in his oiation for Ro/ciu« 

 Anierinus as of Corinthian origin. The 

 Cliinefe have it not ; for in Kien Long's 

 Ode to Tea he defcribes a kettle on the 

 fiie. 



MR. ADDISON to a LADY. 



** Mauavi, 

 " It would be ridicidous in me, after 

 the late im iginatinn you were pleaf d to 

 fav-ur nie wjtli, to afteit any lonj^tr an 



ignorance of your fentiments, oppjfite Madam, deftroy a tranquillity I hive j«!l 



foevtr as an approbstion of them nuilf be 

 to tlie diilatrs <;f realon and jufticc. This 

 expreffion, Madam, I am highly fenfible 

 may appear a little too coarfe in the mouth 

 of a poh'e man ; but I hope is no dif- 

 prace to the behaviour of a fincere one. 

 When we are to talk upon matters of im- 

 portance, delicacy muft give way to truth, 

 and ceremony be facrificcd to cand> ur> 



begun to tafte, or blafl your own hsnour, 

 which has hitherto been fpotlefs and un- 

 fullied. My bed edecm is ever your's ; 

 but fhould I promife more ? Confider, I 

 conjure you, the total neceflity I am un- 

 der of rrmoving myliilf from an inter- 

 courfe fo dangerous; and, in any other 

 C'jEnmand^ dilpofc of your molt humble 

 «' And devoted, ♦' J. A." 



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