willingly to school. And then the lover, Shing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eye-brow.Then, a soldier, ll of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard; Jlous in honor; sudden and quick in quarrel ; Seeking the bubble reputation,

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Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice
In fair round body, with good capon lined-
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut!
Full of wise laws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.-The sixth age shifts
o the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ;

ith spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
s youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide
r his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice;
urning again towards childish treble, pipes
nd whistles in his sound.-Last scene of all,
hat ends this strange eventful history,
second childishness, and mere oblivion ;
ns teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.

COLUMBUS TO FERDINAND.

LUMBUS was a considerable number of years engaged in soliciting he Court of Spain to fit him out, in order to discover a new continent, which he imagined existed somewhere in the western parts of the ocean. During his negotiation, he is supposed to have address ed king FERDINAND in the following stanzas :[LLUSTRIOUS Monarch of Iberia's soil,

ILLU

Too long I wait permission to depart :
Sick of delays, I beg thy listening ear-
Shine forth the patron and the prince of art.
While yet Columbus breathes the vital air,
Grant his request to pass the western main;
Reserve this glory for thy native soil,
And what must please thee more— -for thy own reign.
Of this huge globe how small a part we know-
Does heaven their worlds to western suns deny?
How disproportioned to the mighty deep,
The lands that yet in human prospect lie!
Does Cynthia, when to western skies arriv❜d,
Spend her sweet beam upon the barren main,
And ne'er allume with midnight splendor, she,
The native dancing on the lightsome green ?
Should the vast circuit of the world contain

istes of ocean, and such scanty land ? ̈
son's voice that bids me think not so;
more nobly of th' Almighty hand.

vn fair lamp trace half the circle round
ht the waves and monsters of the seas?
there must beyond the billowy waste,
and men, and animals, and trees.
mitting flame my breast i spires
new land amidst the barren waves,
falling low, the source of day descends,
blue sea his evening visage laves.
this tragic lay, Cordova's sage ;*
me shall come, when numerous years are past,
an shall dissolve the band of things,
extended region rise at last;
this shall disclose the mighty land,

away, where none have roved before ; ll the world's remotest regions be r's rock, or Thule's savage shore." the theme I languish to depart. the bark, and bid Columbus sail; s no storms upon th' untravell'd deep; te shall steer, and skill disarm the gale. Nor does he dread to lose the intended course, Though far from land the reeling galley stray, And skies above, and gulphy seas below Be the sole object seen for many a day. Think not that nature has unveill'd in vain The mystic magnet to the mortal eye, So late have we the guided needle plann'd Only to beneath our native sky? Ere this was found the ruling power of all, Found for our use an ocean in the land, Its breadth so small we could not wander long, Nor long be absent from the neighboring strand. Short was the course, and guided by the stars; But stars no more shall point our daring way; The Bear shall sink, and every guard be drown'd, And great Arcturus scarce escape the sea.

When southward we shall steer-O grant my wishi, Supply the bark, and bid Columbus sail; He dreads no tempest on the untravell'd deep, Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.

Seneca, the poet, native of Cordova, in Spain

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Sact Sentences for forming the morals
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acter of a Young Lady
thocles and Calista

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y of Lady Harriet Ackland, do.

entures of General Putnam, Humphrey
faithful American Dog
canoes of Iceland, Encyclopedia

eral Washington's Resignation at the close
çular Instance of Patriotism, Hume
ress to the Inhabitants of New-Hampshire,
jugal Affection, Haller

y of Logan, a Mingo Chief, Jefferson
ch of a Scythian Ambassador to Alexander

am and the Wolf, Humphrey

Aged Prisoner released from the Bastil, Mrd.
cription of the falls of Niagara, Ellicott
Captivity of Mrs. Howe, Gay

Whistle, Franklin

ary of Pocahontas,

Chastelleaux

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ia, or the Happiness of Retirement, do.
ana, a real Character, do.

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tules for Behavior, Chesterfield

ily Disagreements the frequent cause of ime
Set Tormenting
Keory of Columbus

ription of a Marriage Feast at Georgia, in
uit of a famous Grotto in the Island of Ant
aordinary Bells in Russia

Webster

Villa of Prince Zartoriski, in Poland
ee of the Danube

of the Rhine

ruf Constance

ge of Shaffhausen

Mel of Switzerland

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ular state of Property

by condition of Society
junt of a Salt mac in Poland

tet for moveable Houses in Russia
#ption of the Glaciers in Switzerland
eds Bridge of Osiers in Peru

Sran who was cast on a desert island
Fights m Spain

ner of feeding sheep in Spain
ble instance of Fasting

F. d in the Nile
state of Jerusalem
3 in Jerusalem

3 nai

Palmyra
s in Egypt
Well in Cairo

from 'the Oration of Thomas Dawes

ELOCUTION.

Trom Warren's Oration on the Boston Masacres
Barlow's Oration, July 4, 1787
Mr. Ames' Seech in Congress
cero's Oration against Ve.res

f Canuleins

Publius S ipio
Caius Marius

POETRY.

t of the common objects of pursuit, Pope
Characters,

do.

on of a storm of Hail, Dwight

to the Deity, Livingston

do.

ng Hymn,
Peace,

Barlow

DIALOGUES.

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Andrus
verly and Henrietta Belfield

and a Gentleman

and Henrietta

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