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She hurls him headlong from.iiis fancied height. His virions vanifli, %nd he finks in night.
Columbia's fons now freed from Avars' alarni, More peaceful fcenes their manly bofoms warm i Ceres and Pan, delighted, both furvey The blifsful fcenes, and mix in fpor'clve play; And when the fun withdraNVS his fervid rays, Divinely fmg beneath the fpreading bays; Where manly youth?, and fairefl maids are feen. In jocund mirth upon the level green.— Sure this is blifs, that to the heart imparts Raptures divine, beyond the reach of arts.
Years rclPd on years in this delightful drain, No foe to dread, no harmlefs infants (lain. 1'he tranquil fwsin went whirling on his way. And cheerful, labour'd till the clofe of day; Nor anxious thoughs of fearful woes to come, Purfu'd his footPieps to his cheerful heme. Around his fire the liitle group repair, — Here fat his wife, — his friend and children — there : Lord of his hut, — he fagely reads the news, With look important, as poor parfon Hewes; Decides with eafe the fate of mighty kings :— Himfelf more mighty, as he reads — or fings.* Sure fcenes like thefc will never know alloy,
- The author thinks it necefTaiy, and a duty he owes to the rifing;
generation, thus publicly to caution fchcol-mnllers (in country places efpecially") to pay a more ft ridt attention to the children under th.eir care: to keep them from that dctcflab'e method of tuning their lef- fons over, at their feats. Tlius they acquire a bad habit, which they may never fhakeoff; occafioned principally from the inattention or ft-upidityof teuchers. Children (ho uld by all means be taught to read with the natural inflexions of the voice, as in fpeaking.
f I have often fpent part of a Winter evening by the fire lide, and in the company of thofe ufeful citizens, fneering'y tcrm'd by the pam- per'd fons of luxury, clovms and tujlics; and have difcovered through the clouds of obfcurity, the feeds of genius; that v^'ith proper cuUiva-
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