Miscellanea aurea: or, The golden medley : Consisting of I A voyage to the mountains of the moon .. II The fortunate shipwreck, or, A description of New Athens .. VII An account of bad and good women, ancient and modern Among which is the story of the Spartan dame, the subject of Mr Southern's play With several other epistolary essays in prose and verse: . alleto all fiiblunary Things. This, youll fay, islooking too near on Nature, and the State ofhuman Things. It may be fo ; but this I muflreply, That if this nearer View afford but littlePleafnre, it fiiews me the Truth of Things, andfo deliv
Miscellanea aurea: or, The golden medley : Consisting of I A voyage to the mountains of the moon .. II The fortunate shipwreck, or, A description of New Athens .. VII An account of bad and good women, ancient and modern Among which is the story of the Spartan dame, the subject of Mr Southern's play With several other epistolary essays in prose and verse: . alleto all fiiblunary Things. This, youll fay, islooking too near on Nature, and the State ofhuman Things. It may be fo ; but this I muflreply, That if this nearer View afford but littlePleafnre, it fiiews me the Truth of Things, andfo delivers me from a great deal of Difquiet j itcurbs the uneafy Appetite of Things abfent,and makes me not wifh for any thing but what1 enjoy j for whatever is tranfitory, whatever has [ H7 ] has an End, whatever is not Eternal, has notPower to raife my Defire, that terminates onlyin that fupreme Being, which, as it had no Be-ginning, fo never will have an End. But this, youll fay, is preaching the Melan-choly Dodrines of a dying Man, and you arein the Health and Vigor of your Age, too briskand warm to relilh thefe cold Maxims: You arefor more gay and aftive Notions; long may youenjoy that Health and Vigor, and late may itbe eer you come to my weak State and Condi-tion ; for you will think then, as does now Tour faithful Priendy and Servanty C R I T E R4 [ H^ jLETTER IV. Jljat our Jleefmg Hoiir^ are as <])aluahleas our waking, A Paradox. Soinne quies reniin, placid: jjlme fomne deoru?n. To Chriftophcr Crotchet Efq-, at CaptainR-ittleV in Windmill-ftreet, Piccadilly. Dear Kit, TITHAT all \\\ Raptures Oh! the tranf- ^ porting yo)s of the divine Chariclea, tx^henI lay payititig on he,-fmiicy Breafl, 7ny Soul juft flut-tering to my very Mouthy to meet her balmy , Kit^ haft thou at laft obcainti PofleifionoF the coy Cba,idea r No, nothing but an emptyDream -, you drtrvrnt flic was kind, but wakdand found her tlie fame coy, proud, cruel, info-lent Woman (lie has always be
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