When sweet and blushing, like a virgin bride, In fpeaking of the morning appearing, the clouds gathering, the lightnings flashing, or any apparent change in the heavens, we always recommend the reader to give a look upward, as he is reading the defcription. This method we before mentioned, and we advise the practice of it in all thofe places where the fenfe will permit, as it gives a pleafing variety in the perufal of a long poem, and helps, in a confiderable degree, to keep alive the attention of the hearer. When wanton gales along the vallies play, This ufeful leffon for the fair and young. Now raise your voice to the fame key in which you began. "Ye Perfian dames," he faid, "to you belong, "Who "Who truft alone in Beauty's feeble ray, "Boaft but the worth Balfora's* pearls display! "Drawn from the deep, we own the surface bright; "But dark within, they drink no luft'rous light. "Such are the maids, and fuch the charms they boaft, "By fenfe unaided, or to virtue loft. "Self-flatt'ring fex! your hearts believe in vain "That love fhall blind when once he fires the ❝ fwain; "Or hope a lover by your faults to win, "As fpots on ermine beautify the skin: "Bleft were the days when Wisdom held her reign, "Loft to our fields, for fo the Fates ordain, "The dear deferters shall return again: "Come thou, whofe thoughts as limpid springs are "clear; "To lead the train, fweet Modesty appear: *The gulf of that name, famous for the pearl fishery. "Here "Here make thy court amid our rural scene, "Diftrusting all, a wife fufpicious maid; "But man the most-not more the mountain doe "Holds the swift falcon for her deadly foe. "Cold is her breaft, like flow'rs that drink the ❝ dew; "A filken veil conceals her from the view. "No wild defires amid thy train be known, "But Faith, whofe heart is fix'd on one alone: "Defponding Meekness, with her downcaft eyes "And friendly Pity, full of tender fighs; "And Love the laft. By thefe your hearts approve "Thefe are the virtues that muft lead to love." Now lower the voice. Thus fung the fwain; and ancient legends fay, The next Eclogue is particularly affecting, and, in reading it, you ought to let a good deal of the pathetic breathe through the whole. Few bofoms we believe fo inflexible as not to feel confiderable emotions at hearing it well read. ECLOGUE ECLOGUE II. HASSAN, OR THE CAMEL-DRIVER. Scene, the Defert. Time, Mid-day. IN filent horror, o'er the boundless wafte, Shrill roar'd the winds, and dreary was the view! The foregoing is very defcriptive of the dreary fituation of Haffan and his poor fuffering camels. Let your vice and look keep in melancholy unifon with the affecting fcene. With defperate forrow wild, th'affrighted man Thrice figh'd, thrice struck his breaft, and thus began: Raife your voice now to a little higher key, but take care to preferve the pathetic undiminished. "Sad was the hour, and luckless was the day, "When first from Shiraz' walls I bent my way! "Ah! "Ah! little thought I of the blafting wind, "Then what but tears and hunger shall be thine? The following addrefs to the poor animals is very affecting. "Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear Or why, fond man, fo eafily betray'd? « Why |