. Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer. i'j^i. influence of taste on rural lift. 315 sure from farming and literature and social inter- course. The other daj when I had come home from a fa- tiguing excursion, and was not in the best humour in the world, mj wife took up the Seasons of Lam- bert, and by way of comforting me, read me the following pafsage from them, with which I Ihall con- clude this Alexandrian epistle. " Heurejx ! ^ui loin du monde, utile a sa patne, *• Y fair naKrc dcs biers, en respecrc !es loix, " Et dcrobant sa tete au fardeaudes emplo s, " Almedans son doma
. Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer. i'j^i. influence of taste on rural lift. 315 sure from farming and literature and social inter- course. The other daj when I had come home from a fa- tiguing excursion, and was not in the best humour in the world, mj wife took up the Seasons of Lam- bert, and by way of comforting me, read me the following pafsage from them, with which I Ihall con- clude this Alexandrian epistle. " Heurejx ! ^ui loin du monde, utile a sa patne, *• Y fair naKrc dcs biers, en respecrc !es loix, " Et dcrobant sa tete au fardeaudes emplo s, " Almedans son domaine, inconnu de ses maitrei, •' Habite le qu'habitoient ses ancetres ! " De I'amourdeshonneuis il n'est point devore. " Sans craindre Ic grand jour, content d'e;re ignore, " Aux vains dieui du public il laifse leur sfatuosj " Par I'envie et le tems »i souvent abattucs; " 11 ne j'ejare po nt dans ces vastes projets ^' Qui tuurmentent le cceur incertain da succes'; " 11 ne peut etre en butie a ces funettt;., '* Qui souvent dela vie empoisonner t les rc»rc«j " EUver ses trouftaux, emitllir son jard'in, " Plucot que I'aggranJlr fecondir son terrain, '' Par sa snlt Industrie augmenter sa rkhejse, " Voila tousles piojetsque torrae sa sag'laCj " H ne veut qu'arriver au termc de scsjo^rs, "' Par uncheniin facile, ei-^«'il suivra toujiurs. " La Chine, et le Japon, I'ai^uillt et la ;>einiu.'e, " N'ornent po'nt ses Ijtnbns d'une vaine piruie; *' On y voit les portraits de ses snges j'ieui, •• lis vecurent sans fasie, 11 vcut vvre comme eux j " II regard/ sou-vent ces images si cthes, " Qj.' parlent a son ctEur des verttii it ses XI. KK. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Edinburgh
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