The Scientific Receptacle (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1795. Excerpt: ... $. By Mr. Henry Bell, at 'Mr. Slevevson's-School Ilo'wdett Dock. THE chiefest delight of a tun-bellied sot, Is an elbow chair, his FIFE, and his pot. 6.---Sonnet On Malice, by Mr. A. Ghndcmiing, (Humbly inscribed to the learned and ingenious Mr. JONSON, of Whitie ') THE baneful breast in which this mor.fler reigns In secret fhew'th the base ignoble mind, To mercenary ends 'and strife.confined; On Constant range thro' black Tartarian plains, Coll ecting legions of infernal trains, To perpetrate what malice has designed; VVXvc&i, and distressing humankind Not worthy of a point in these domains. Unfit to dwell on earth, nor fit to die Is he who strives to do the ill "he can; Who with dire" daemon's in destroying vie, But stop---nor tune your PIPEs to spread his mamc, He's more than brutal andhes less than man So from the human race blot out his name.--Sonnet to the Rose, hy Mr. J. T. Hughes, Cctberstone RECLINED beneath a myrtle shade, Young Damon PIPE'd his song; The zephyr whisp'ring thro7 the glade, Thus brought the strain along; ' He'd pluck'd a rose, then gaz'd admired, f Then singing as the Muse inspired." Hail beauteous rose 1 thy blushing power, Strikes the admirer's view; What fair one would not wisti from thee, Her beauty to renew? Thy fragrant essence to inhale, And snuff p&e aromatic gale. To Delia go, a gift from me, With colours all divine; Should she in extacy embrace, And press her form to thine. Fly fly to this secluded grove, And bless me with a mutual'love. 8.--Corydon. A Pastoral Elegy, hy Vertigo. 'YE shepherds cast your past'ral reeds. In sorrow to the ground, Silent as death, may they become, Nor more be heard to found. My joy is fled, my happy days are o'er; For oh my much-lov'd Cory Don's no more All heard ye not the sc..