Page 69 83 89 96 102 No. 75 48 How fat the precept to love our enemies is practicable 49 Parallel between ancient and modern learn. ing ly discovered, containing a comparison of writers $2 Distresses of an author invited to read his play 109 53 Misargyrus's account of his companions in the Fleet 119 54 The fatal effects of false apologies and preten ces : a story :55 The story continued 131 56 The story concluded 137 57 Translation of the manuscript of Longinus concluded 143 58 Presumption of modern criticism censured. An cient poetry necessarily obscure. Examples 150 59 Poets not universally or necessarily poot, 158 60 Satan's letter in behalf of religion and virtue 165 61 Honour both as a motive and an end, presupposes virtue ; an allegory 171 62 Mifargyrus's account of his companions con cluded 63 Paucity of original writers. Pallages which Pape has borrowed, pointed out 18 125 179 No. Page 64 The Hero diftinguished from the modern man of honour. Account of Eugenio by Bene- 65 Benevolus's letter continued 66 Benevolus's letter concluded 68 Human sports not such as can gratify pure be- nevolence. Frolics unlawful because dan- go Sequel to the story of Eugenio. Not accept- ing a challenge, declared honourable by the 223 How often Thall th' unpractis'd youth With tears, alas! complain! And scowl along the main ! Thus amiable and kind ; Nor heeds the faithless wind. The ladies, to whom I lately addressed some thoughts upon the choice of a husband, I shall to-day consider 'VO, II. A romance. as married ; and as I am very far from thinking that they may now fịt down in negligent security, and remit at once their affiduity and circumspection, I shall warn them of some opinions of which this conduct is the consequence, detea fome errors by which the general intention of good-nature may be disappointed, and endeavour to put them upon their guard against some propensities by which it may be overborne, It is now necesary to remind them, that the paffion which is supposed to animate the lover, the passion which is represented by flames and darts, which swells the bosom with perpetual rapture, and neither changes its object nor loses its ardour, exists only in poetry and The real passion which wit and folly have thus concurred to disguise, is subject to disgust and fatiety, is excited by novelty, and frequently extinguished by poffeffion. It is also equally true, that a refined and abstracted friendship between persons of different sexes, a union of souls to which the corporal passion is merely accidental, is only to be found in the writings of those enthusiasts, who have addressed the world from a cave or a college, and perhaps denied the force of defires which they could not fubdue; or in the professions of infidious hypocrites, who have endeavoured thus to gain a confidence, which they intend only to abuse. But there is an esteem which is meliorated by love, and a love that is elevated by esteem ; a kind of mixed affection, peculiar to mankind as beings compounded of instinct and reason, or, in other words, of body and mind. This is that species of affection, upon which the supreme or peculiar happiness of marriage depends, and which can scarce be preserved without a constant attention and perpetual efforts. As a . |