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SONNET. 
Written on vifiting a Place of Refidence duri Ing 
Childhood. 
Aff pleafing fcenes where once my child- 
hood ftray’d, 
In thoughtlefs innocence fecurely bleft ! 
No bufy paffions then infpired my breait, 
No guilty fears my infant bofom fway’d. 
Ye fields, ye lawns, ye woodbine-twifted 
bow’rs, 
Oft have I fat beneath your lovely fhades, 
Or wander’d flow amid the graffy glades 
And gather’d dew-fprent wreaths of fatae 
flow’rs, 
Each well-known objet that I now review, 
The fhaded park, or antiquated hail, 
Does fome fond traces in my mind renew, 
Some long-forgotten friendthip does recall, 
And many a promifed joy from Fancy’s fore, 
That once could charm, but now can charm 
no more. 
eo 
THE PURSUIT OF QUIET, 
In a Sevies of Elegies, by Jounx Dect, of 
Dover in Kent 3 ow firft publifoed. 
ELEGY THE FIRST. 
© COULD I hide from Memory’s ftedfaft 
eye 
The pencil’d ftory of my earlier years! 
Over the fad view fhe heaves the lingering 
figh, 
And drops at every glance her fruitiefs tears, 
Sée yonder altar where the tablet lies, 
O’er which the plaintive maid with grace. 
reclines : 
Now to her breaft fhe clafps the fatal prize, 
Now all her foul to wild Defpair refigns! | 
See RE ES BY RIN 
New Patents lately Enrolled. 
[Sept. 1," 
Lo, the bright ray which gilds its pi€tur’d 
morn ! 
By Hope’s fair hand that magic tint was laid! 
What fairy profpe&s all the work adorn! 
Nor Fear, nor Sorrow, introduce a fhade! 
Now mark its alter’d noon! ah! there furvey 
Pale, proftrate Grief implore the opening 
tomb ! 
Extinét is all the lovely flufh of day! 
One glimmering taper only lights the 
gloom! 
Wraoct in a fable cloud hehold Defpair! 
She points to Mifery’s wounds, and bids 
her. die 5 
Who lifts her es to Heav’n in fervent 
pray’r, 
Tho’ not a gleam 33 hope iliumes the fky! 
O from that record, Memory! turn thine eyes, 
Nor bid their beauteous orbs thus frantic 
roll, 
Then might I yet life’s comforts learn to 
prize, Y 
Might yet bring gaietto my wounded foul, 
Why dwell, fond maid! dn every loft delight ? 
Why ftrive each feature of my hopes to fave? 
For this I fleeplefs pafs the long, long night ! 
For this impatient wait the opening grave ! 
Somie angel! bear the tablet far away. 
O plunge it deeply in oblivion’s wave ! 
Then I no more fhould linger thro’ the day, 
No more impatient wait my opening grave, 
Then long-lott peace—then fmiling eafe were 
mine ; 
Then I no more fhould wake th’ impaf- 
fion’d lyre! 
O felf-tormenting maid, the gift refign, 
And far from thefe ill omen’d fcenes retire ! 
i baich: be continued. ). 

- NEW PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 
MR. WYATT, for confirudiing BRIDGES 
and other BUILDINGS, Gc. without 
the USE of WooD. 
PATENT has been granted to Mr. 
SAMUEL Wyatt, of Chelfea Col- 
lege, Middlefex, architect, for a method 
of making and conftruCting bridges, ware- 
houfes, and other buildings, without the 
ufe of wood, as a neceflary conitituent 
part thereof. 
The principle of this invention is en- 
tirely in the employment of iron, caft 
in fuch forms as, when put together, will 
make a compleat whole, either a bridge, 
arched cieling, &c. without the ule of 
timber, or any kind of cramps, {crews, or 
faitenings, except lead or cement run into 
the interitices and jomings of the feveral 
pieces. The bridge, which the patentee 
ropofes, is compofed of fucceflive rows 
ef hollow pillars of iron laid horizontally, 
each row divided by folid plates of the 
fame metal, perforated to receive the ter- 
mination of one fet of pillars, and the be~ 
ginning of the next, and the whole, when 
put together, forming a very wide arch. 
Some idea may, perhaps, be formed of 
this feries, by fuppofing it to be a facade, 
or double cotonade of pillars, with merely 
their connecting architrave, thrown down, 
and lying horizontally, or nearly fo, and 
the architrave of the one feries ferving as 
a bafe for the next, and fo on fucceffively, 
allowing for the curve of the arch, till the 
requifite length is completed, Theil iron 
arch abuts againkt mafonry-work on each 
fide; and the interftices between the pillars 
are filed up with light iron frame-work, 
fo as to bring the whole on a faficient 
level to fupport the pavement. 
Another part of this patent is the con- 
ftruétion of floorings and roofs of eaft-iron, 
alfo without any bolts, fcrews, or other 
joinings. For the ceiling, which muft be 
fomewhat vaulted, the patentee ufes iron — 
plates, which, when connected ia 
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