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Two Letters Written By Mr. Addison, In The Year I708, To The Earl Of Warwick,
MY DEAREST LORD , I CAN'Tforbear being troublesome to your Lordship , whilst I am in your neighbourhood . The business of this is to invite you to a concert of music , which I have found out in a neig hbouring wood . It begins precisely at six in the evening , and consists of a black-bird , a thrush , a robin-red-breast , and a bull-finch . There is a lark that , by way of overturesings ' and mounts till she is almost out of hearing ,
, ahd afterwards , falling down leisurely , drops to the ground , or as soon as , she has ended her song . The whole is concluded by a nightingale , that has a much better voice than Mrs . Tofts , and something of the Italian manner in her divisions . If your Lordship will honour me with your company , I will promise to entertain you with much better music , and more agreeable scenes , than you ever met with at the
Opera , and will conclude with a charming description of a nightingale , out of our friend Virgil : Quails populed mmrens Philomela sub umbrd Amissos queritur foetus , quos dtirus arator Observans . nido implumes detra ' xit ; at ilia Flet n ' octem , ramoque sedens miserabile carmen
Integral , & mcestis lateloca quastibus implst . So , close in poplar shades , her children gone , The mother , nightingale laments alone : Whose-nest some prying chiirl had found , and thence By stealth convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence . But she lies the night with mournful-strains
supp , And melancholy music , fills the plains . : . ' May 27 , . 1 Your Lordship ' s most obedient : 170 S . ; ,. J . ADDISON .
History Of Masonry.
HISTORY OF MASONRY .
CONTINUED FROM VOL . V . P . 374 . TIBERIUS , the colleague of Augustus , having attained to the imperial throne , became a patron and encourager of the fraternity . £ A . M . 403 6 . A . D . 34 . ] Under his reign the Lord Jesus Chrfst was crucified without the walls of Jerusalem , by Pontius Pilate , the
Roman governor of Judea , and rose again the third day for the justification of all that believe in him . Tiberius afterward banished Pilate for his injustice to Christ . The Augustan stile was much cultivated , and the expert craftsmen met with great encouragement ; even Nero raised his own statue qf brass , 110 feet high , arrd built a most superb gilded palace . Vespasian sent iiis gallant son Titus to subdue the Jews , and take Jerusalem-, when a soldier , in the sack of the town , contrary to the VOL . vi . o
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Two Letters Written By Mr. Addison, In The Year I708, To The Earl Of Warwick,
MY DEAREST LORD , I CAN'Tforbear being troublesome to your Lordship , whilst I am in your neighbourhood . The business of this is to invite you to a concert of music , which I have found out in a neig hbouring wood . It begins precisely at six in the evening , and consists of a black-bird , a thrush , a robin-red-breast , and a bull-finch . There is a lark that , by way of overturesings ' and mounts till she is almost out of hearing ,
, ahd afterwards , falling down leisurely , drops to the ground , or as soon as , she has ended her song . The whole is concluded by a nightingale , that has a much better voice than Mrs . Tofts , and something of the Italian manner in her divisions . If your Lordship will honour me with your company , I will promise to entertain you with much better music , and more agreeable scenes , than you ever met with at the
Opera , and will conclude with a charming description of a nightingale , out of our friend Virgil : Quails populed mmrens Philomela sub umbrd Amissos queritur foetus , quos dtirus arator Observans . nido implumes detra ' xit ; at ilia Flet n ' octem , ramoque sedens miserabile carmen
Integral , & mcestis lateloca quastibus implst . So , close in poplar shades , her children gone , The mother , nightingale laments alone : Whose-nest some prying chiirl had found , and thence By stealth convey'd th' unfeather'd innocence . But she lies the night with mournful-strains
supp , And melancholy music , fills the plains . : . ' May 27 , . 1 Your Lordship ' s most obedient : 170 S . ; ,. J . ADDISON .
History Of Masonry.
HISTORY OF MASONRY .
CONTINUED FROM VOL . V . P . 374 . TIBERIUS , the colleague of Augustus , having attained to the imperial throne , became a patron and encourager of the fraternity . £ A . M . 403 6 . A . D . 34 . ] Under his reign the Lord Jesus Chrfst was crucified without the walls of Jerusalem , by Pontius Pilate , the
Roman governor of Judea , and rose again the third day for the justification of all that believe in him . Tiberius afterward banished Pilate for his injustice to Christ . The Augustan stile was much cultivated , and the expert craftsmen met with great encouragement ; even Nero raised his own statue qf brass , 110 feet high , arrd built a most superb gilded palace . Vespasian sent iiis gallant son Titus to subdue the Jews , and take Jerusalem-, when a soldier , in the sack of the town , contrary to the VOL . vi . o