Ease, grumbles Listless, worried at tea-party;* Ease, bellows† King, with morning visit pester'd; * At these charming assemblies, composed of motley groups of nymphs and swains, who are most fashionably indifferent to each other, one knows not which most to admire, the dress of the women, or the drowsiness of the men. The institution of these parties cannot be sufficiently admired. The lady of the house enjoys a noble opportunity of treating a number of people, at a frugal rate, an important circumstance in American economy. The misses, stimulated by chat inspiring tea, prattle divinely, and dart electric flashes from radiant eyes, the effects of which are unfortunately lost, as most of the gallants are too sleepy, from the fulness of their dinner, and the frequency of their bumpers, to attend to the glance, or even hear the voice of these charmers, charming ever so wisely. This is the gratuitous name of a gentleman, whom some of his friends alarm, in the midst of morning business, by the frequent rap of the noisy knocker. This circumstance at once evinces that he is fashionable and they have leisure. Horace, in his first satire, describes the discontent of a Roman lawyer, Sub galli cantum consultor ubi ostia pulsat, but a Philadelphia attorney is willing, even at cock. crow, to be rouzed by clients, provided that Loun». Oft neither found in Library recess,* Joe, Not dashing frock-coat, leathern galligaskins, gers will abstain from his office until evening grants the careless and convivial hour. Mr. D'Israeli has very truly and brilliantly said, "among the disturbers of literary tranquillity may be classed those unhappy wanderers, who besiege the houses of their neighbours, and like the barbarian soldier, enter the apartment of an Archimedes, and murder him in the midst of his studies." * A studious rook, where the person alluded to, makes the nearest possible approaches to tranquillity of mind, by incessant employment among the writings of such spirits, who have augmented the strength, or heightened the graces of literature. † An asylum for a few social spirits, who, by a sentiment or a song, contrast the labours of the day. On wreaths of purple smoke, curling from the cinnamon segar, care scuds away; and each individual exclaims in the tone of festivity To night shall gay Champaign expand the soul, Give me the man, who, satisfied with little, Drains with a friend his demi-john to th' last drop, And with the hapless poverty-struck victim, Why with ambition trouble we our noddles? Fled from his conscience. Care mounts the phaeton, curricle, and tandem; Care mounts the charger, and the pacing pony; Swifter it flies than Happy the man, content with what's before him, Heedless of ills, awaiting him to-morrow, Light lays his load by Horace' golden maxim, Nil admirari. Know we the wight, exempt from all temptations? You have your own, dear Joe, and I have mine too; Drive them away, in nipperkin of beer, or Whiff of tobacco. You, in your study, sit uninterrupted, Round you the classics, English, Greek, and Reading or scribbling rapidly the hours fly, I sit immured in office, night and morning; Fees tail, and simple. MERCUTIO. FREE IMITATION OF PERSICOS ODI, &c. DINNERS of form, I vote a bore, Where folks, who never met before, And care not if they ne'er meet more, Are brought together: Cram'd close as mackerel in their places, Thrice blest, who at an inn unbends Mirth and good humour round him sees, MERCUTIO. AD CALVUM. Debetur canis reverentia sancta capillis; Joan. Pet. Lotichius. IMITATED. ON MY BALD-HEADED FRIEND. "A reverence to gray hair is due”— |