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Ode On Classic Discipline.

VI . Patient care , by just degrees , Word and image learns to class ; Couples those , discriminates these , As in strict review they pass : Joins , as varying features strike , Apt to apt ; and like to like : Till in meet array advance .

Concord , method , elegance ! vii . Time meanwhile , from day to day , Fixes deeper virtue's root ; Whence , in long succession gay , Blossoms many a lively fruit : Meek obedience / following still , Frank , and glad , a wiser will !

Modest candour , hearing prone , Every judgment—save its own ! VIII . Emulation ! whose keen eye , Forward still , and forward strains ; Nothing ever deeming high , Where a higher hope remains ! Shame ingenuous , native , free , Source of manly dignity ! Zeal , impartial to pursue Ilight and just , and good and true !

IX . These , and every kindred grace , More and more perfection gain ; While attention loves to trace Grave record , or lofty strain ; Noting , how in virtue's pride Sages liv'd ; and heroes died ! Conscious , how in virtue's cause . Genius gave , andclaim'd applause !

x . Thus with early culture blest , Thus to early toil inttr'd , Infancy ' s expanding breast Glows with sense and powers matur'd ; Whence if future efforts raise / Moral , social , civil praise ; Thine is all th' effect—be thi :: e The glory—Classic Discipline !

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IN IMITATION OF SHAKSPEAR . BY W . II . IRELAND , On contemplating Westminster-Abbey . Of My good ford , how irksome passed , the time , While in yon porch I did wait yourconiing ; Yet ' as this chrystal arch ' , this bright heaven

Doth shine upon the enteral lipped wave , And paints upon the deep each passing cloud ; E ' en SD ihe smallest and most gentle plant That waves before the breath of thee sweet heaven , To man gives food for contemplation ; And shows how soon this blazing frame of Must sink on age ' s chilling icy bed , [ vouih And d . viiidie down to second nothingness ;

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Look but on yon clock those lanky fingers , The tolling heralds of swift winged time , Whose clapper wakens men from drowsy sleep ; Changing the dreary stillness of black night To day ' s first infancy , the blushing morn ; While blest Aurora rears her purple crest , And tip-toe stands , shaking her golden hair to visit the of

Eager busy sons men : Her blazingjourney ended , down she sinks , And so I liken her to man ' s strange end . Look on von pile , under whose fretted roof So inanv kings have seized the precious gem Of royally , and sucked the courtiers Lip laboured lies . Wnereareyouno ' . v ? dead , alas , and rotten I O I my gobd lordlei us from hence away

, , This spot doth smell too strong of royal dust , Throwing its lures to catch the minds of " men ; Blowing in their ears the feverous blast Of mirth , feasts , merriment , prosperity ; Till on a sudden grappling with their souls , Thou kniftest them at once in death eienu :

Imitation Of Shakspear,

IMITATION OF SHAKSPEAR ,

EYTIIE LATE REV . MR . BISIIOl ' , . ( From an Interlude entitled " The Fairy Benison . ) OBERON and TITANIA . Oberon . So kings would wish for those who shall be .

kings . [ Oberon . Til So kings should Wish!—And therein Doth wish as should a king . —But why must Oberon Square to his single and particular thought The siim and standard of all princely blessedness ? [ wishes then ? —So kings should wish ! Have queens no

. Aye—but great Oberon saith , our several cares Fori ' lissameprince . likeourconnubial loves , Made one incorporate fondness . Be it so-Then should our cares be voiced severall }' , Like our own loves , united , but disti ct . Sogrow their loves , whose son hath brought us hither .

I grant he is a boy , a manly one : I grant he hath a father , whom to imitate Will ask a strain of spirit and benevolence ,. Expectance ne'er could warrant , till the fact ? ronounc'd it possible . What then ? Doth that Annul my claim and proper privilege ? Hath not ihe bay a mother ? Yes . And I , A female as I am , have fr . im'd a wish

May lure a mother ' s ear , as soon , perhaps , As aught th .-: scornful Oberon hath prepai '

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LONDON: Article 3
THE PROPRIETOR TO THE SUBSCRIBERS. Article 4
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 5
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY, FOR JANUARY 1797. Article 6
ON SUICIDE AND MADNESS. Article 14
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE. Article 16
THE GHOST OF STERNE IN LONDON. Article 20
ESSAYS ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH HISTORY AND CLASSICAL LEARNING. Article 24
LETTERS FROM LORD ESSEX TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. Article 31
THE DYING MIRA, A FRAGMENT. Article 32
ANECDOTES. Article 33
REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE IN TWO TWIN BROTHERS. Article 35
SINGULAR INSTANCE OF A CAPACITY TO ENDURE ABSTINENCE AND HUNGER IN A SPIDER. Article 36
ABSENCE OF MIND. Article 37
FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 38
MASONRY FOUNDED ON SCRIPTURE. Article 38
ROYAL CUMBERLAND SCHOOL. Article 43
TO THE EDITOR OF THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 45
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 45
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 46
POETRY. Article 54
THE AFFLICTED PARENTS, AN ELEGY Article 54
TO THE MEMORY OF LAURA. Article 55
ODE ON CLASSIC DISCIPLINE. Article 55
LINES Article 56
IMITATION OF SHAKSPEAR, Article 56
SONNET. Article 57
TO THE GLOW-WORM. Article 57
SONG. Article 57
EPITAPH ON A BEAUTIFUL BOY. Article 57
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 58
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 60
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 60
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 66
OBITUARY. Article 75
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Ode On Classic Discipline.

VI . Patient care , by just degrees , Word and image learns to class ; Couples those , discriminates these , As in strict review they pass : Joins , as varying features strike , Apt to apt ; and like to like : Till in meet array advance .

Concord , method , elegance ! vii . Time meanwhile , from day to day , Fixes deeper virtue's root ; Whence , in long succession gay , Blossoms many a lively fruit : Meek obedience / following still , Frank , and glad , a wiser will !

Modest candour , hearing prone , Every judgment—save its own ! VIII . Emulation ! whose keen eye , Forward still , and forward strains ; Nothing ever deeming high , Where a higher hope remains ! Shame ingenuous , native , free , Source of manly dignity ! Zeal , impartial to pursue Ilight and just , and good and true !

IX . These , and every kindred grace , More and more perfection gain ; While attention loves to trace Grave record , or lofty strain ; Noting , how in virtue's pride Sages liv'd ; and heroes died ! Conscious , how in virtue's cause . Genius gave , andclaim'd applause !

x . Thus with early culture blest , Thus to early toil inttr'd , Infancy ' s expanding breast Glows with sense and powers matur'd ; Whence if future efforts raise / Moral , social , civil praise ; Thine is all th' effect—be thi :: e The glory—Classic Discipline !

Lines

LINES

IN IMITATION OF SHAKSPEAR . BY W . II . IRELAND , On contemplating Westminster-Abbey . Of My good ford , how irksome passed , the time , While in yon porch I did wait yourconiing ; Yet ' as this chrystal arch ' , this bright heaven

Doth shine upon the enteral lipped wave , And paints upon the deep each passing cloud ; E ' en SD ihe smallest and most gentle plant That waves before the breath of thee sweet heaven , To man gives food for contemplation ; And shows how soon this blazing frame of Must sink on age ' s chilling icy bed , [ vouih And d . viiidie down to second nothingness ;

Lines

Look but on yon clock those lanky fingers , The tolling heralds of swift winged time , Whose clapper wakens men from drowsy sleep ; Changing the dreary stillness of black night To day ' s first infancy , the blushing morn ; While blest Aurora rears her purple crest , And tip-toe stands , shaking her golden hair to visit the of

Eager busy sons men : Her blazingjourney ended , down she sinks , And so I liken her to man ' s strange end . Look on von pile , under whose fretted roof So inanv kings have seized the precious gem Of royally , and sucked the courtiers Lip laboured lies . Wnereareyouno ' . v ? dead , alas , and rotten I O I my gobd lordlei us from hence away

, , This spot doth smell too strong of royal dust , Throwing its lures to catch the minds of " men ; Blowing in their ears the feverous blast Of mirth , feasts , merriment , prosperity ; Till on a sudden grappling with their souls , Thou kniftest them at once in death eienu :

Imitation Of Shakspear,

IMITATION OF SHAKSPEAR ,

EYTIIE LATE REV . MR . BISIIOl ' , . ( From an Interlude entitled " The Fairy Benison . ) OBERON and TITANIA . Oberon . So kings would wish for those who shall be .

kings . [ Oberon . Til So kings should Wish!—And therein Doth wish as should a king . —But why must Oberon Square to his single and particular thought The siim and standard of all princely blessedness ? [ wishes then ? —So kings should wish ! Have queens no

. Aye—but great Oberon saith , our several cares Fori ' lissameprince . likeourconnubial loves , Made one incorporate fondness . Be it so-Then should our cares be voiced severall }' , Like our own loves , united , but disti ct . Sogrow their loves , whose son hath brought us hither .

I grant he is a boy , a manly one : I grant he hath a father , whom to imitate Will ask a strain of spirit and benevolence ,. Expectance ne'er could warrant , till the fact ? ronounc'd it possible . What then ? Doth that Annul my claim and proper privilege ? Hath not ihe bay a mother ? Yes . And I , A female as I am , have fr . im'd a wish

May lure a mother ' s ear , as soon , perhaps , As aught th .-: scornful Oberon hath prepai '

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