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Yorick And Eliza.

Look now on that naked rock , where a forlorn shepherd searches in vain to pasture the only lamb the storm has left him . That is the cold , flinty heart , petrified by insensibility , which hears not the cry , nor heeds the tears of craving innocence . Let your eyes wander through the valley before you , rich in varied harvests , and glowing with all the splendour of cultivation . That , Elizais the generous mind whose joy is the communication of good

, , and would not suffer , if such a power could be given to human benevolence , a weeping eye , or an aching heart in the world . Turn , now , I beseech you , towards the desert thatforms the dreary landscape behind you , and behold a forlorn , solitary being who is wandering over it . The flints have wounded his feet , his staff scarce supports his steps , and the cutting blast pierces his tattered raiment .

He sometimes throws his meek eye to the gates of heaven , and , as if he received comfort from thence , he proceeds on his way . At this moment , a female form meets the weary traveller , turns him aside from the inhospitable path , and conducts him to a sunny hillock , where verdure springs , where the fountains murmur , and the myrtle grows . She covers him with her mantle , and washes his

wounds with her tears;—she opens her wallet , and , with a celestial beneficence , spreads a table for him in the desert . Am not I that mournful traveller ? and is it not Eliza who has guided my woe-worn steps to the sunny hillock , where I now place my weary spirits ? This is a strange rhapsody—is it not ? But some how or oiher , I love rhapsodies—for the best possible reason—because , with all their irregularities , their struts , and wild emotions , they come from the heart .

On The Impassibility Of Insects.

ON THE IMPASSIBILITY OF INSECTS .

FKOM M . LE V ^ ilLLANT . TDESIDES the experiments I prosecuted as to the power , more or - " - ' less extensive , that certain animals have of subsisting without food , I engaged in others as to the impassibility , so to express myself of certain kinds of insects , an impassibility by means of which beings , the term of whose existence is six months , or even less ,

appear to have received from nature the gift of being indestructible through the medium of those sensations commonly called painful ; which are ordinarily destructive of every thing that has life . I took a large red-winged locust of the Cape , opened its belly , and , pulling out its intestines , filled the cavity with cotton ; and in that state 1 fixed it to the bottom of a box with a pin , which passed through its thorax . It remained there for five months ; and at the end of this period it still moved both its legs and its antennae . I transfixed other locusts in the same manner , without , however .

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LONDON: Article 2
TO READERS, CORRESPONDENTS,&c. Article 3
THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY, Article 4
MEMOIRS OF HER LATE IMPERIAL MAJESTY, CATHARINE II. Article 6
REFLECTIONS UPON TRAGEDY. Article 10
ON THE NATIONAL MANNERS OF THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH. Article 12
ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEASONS ON THE MENTAL POWERS. Article 14
ANECDOTE. Article 17
MEMOIRS OF THE LATE COLONEL FREDERICK. Article 18
NEW OXFORD GUIDE: OR HUMOROUS SUPPLEMENT TO ALL FORMER ACCOUNTS, OFTHAT ANCIENT CITY AND UNIVERSITY. Article 21
YORICK AND ELIZA. Article 26
ON THE IMPASSIBILITY OF INSECTS. Article 27
ON THE EXISTENCE OF MERMAIDS. Article 28
BON MOT OF A SPANIARD. Article 31
ORIGINAL LETTER FROM ADDISON TO A LADY. Article 32
DESCRIPTION OF AN UNFREQUENTED CAVE, NEAR BESANCON, IN FRANCE. Article 33
FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 34
ROYAL ARCH. Article 38
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 40
POETRY. Article 50
EPILOGUE, TO THE SAME, Article 50
EPILOGUE Article 51
MARY, A TALE. Article 52
SONG. Article 53
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS, SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE FREEMASONS' FEMALE CHARITY, FEBRUARY- 9, 1797. Article 53
SONNET. Article 53
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 54
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 56
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 57
MONTHLY CHRONICLE . Article 62
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Article 67
OBITUARY. Article 70
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 73
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Yorick And Eliza.

Look now on that naked rock , where a forlorn shepherd searches in vain to pasture the only lamb the storm has left him . That is the cold , flinty heart , petrified by insensibility , which hears not the cry , nor heeds the tears of craving innocence . Let your eyes wander through the valley before you , rich in varied harvests , and glowing with all the splendour of cultivation . That , Elizais the generous mind whose joy is the communication of good

, , and would not suffer , if such a power could be given to human benevolence , a weeping eye , or an aching heart in the world . Turn , now , I beseech you , towards the desert thatforms the dreary landscape behind you , and behold a forlorn , solitary being who is wandering over it . The flints have wounded his feet , his staff scarce supports his steps , and the cutting blast pierces his tattered raiment .

He sometimes throws his meek eye to the gates of heaven , and , as if he received comfort from thence , he proceeds on his way . At this moment , a female form meets the weary traveller , turns him aside from the inhospitable path , and conducts him to a sunny hillock , where verdure springs , where the fountains murmur , and the myrtle grows . She covers him with her mantle , and washes his

wounds with her tears;—she opens her wallet , and , with a celestial beneficence , spreads a table for him in the desert . Am not I that mournful traveller ? and is it not Eliza who has guided my woe-worn steps to the sunny hillock , where I now place my weary spirits ? This is a strange rhapsody—is it not ? But some how or oiher , I love rhapsodies—for the best possible reason—because , with all their irregularities , their struts , and wild emotions , they come from the heart .

On The Impassibility Of Insects.

ON THE IMPASSIBILITY OF INSECTS .

FKOM M . LE V ^ ilLLANT . TDESIDES the experiments I prosecuted as to the power , more or - " - ' less extensive , that certain animals have of subsisting without food , I engaged in others as to the impassibility , so to express myself of certain kinds of insects , an impassibility by means of which beings , the term of whose existence is six months , or even less ,

appear to have received from nature the gift of being indestructible through the medium of those sensations commonly called painful ; which are ordinarily destructive of every thing that has life . I took a large red-winged locust of the Cape , opened its belly , and , pulling out its intestines , filled the cavity with cotton ; and in that state 1 fixed it to the bottom of a box with a pin , which passed through its thorax . It remained there for five months ; and at the end of this period it still moved both its legs and its antennae . I transfixed other locusts in the same manner , without , however .

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