Should this public offering by a parent prove acceptable to other parents-fhould it affift to ftore the opening mind with agreeable images of nature, or to imprefs pure fentiments of moral and divine truth, at an age when they are not easily obliterated, the compiler will be abundantly gratified. It is delightful, indeed, to every feeling mind to give pleasure to innocence; but to profit it also, is a task on which 重要 a benevolent difpofition will ever exercife itself with a fond partiality. AUGUST 1, 1801. W. M. CONTENTS. Sonnet, Written at the Close of Spring Mrs.C. Smith .. Mavor 6 7 ibid. Cunningham Thomson Cunninghan Written at Midnight in a Thunder Storm Miss Carter 88 118 Ode to Spring Darwin Bidlake Hughes Cowper Akenside Smallett Swift Pope Resignation On the Deity Sheffield Duke of Buckingham. To the Evening Star The Universal Prayer God St. Matthew Nothing Formed in Vain Ode to Peace folk The Snail and the Frog. A Fable. A Wish |