Grubftreet Journal, No 60. EPITAPH upon Sir ISAAC NEWTON, by H Dr. BENTLEY. IC quiefcunt ISAACI NEWTONI. Si quæris quis & qualis ille fuerit, Sin ex ipfo nomine reliqua novifti, Et mortale illud philofophiæ numen Grata mente venerare. I Grubftreet Journal, No 61. FEBRUARY 26, 1730. GENTLEMEN, Have hitherto read your weekly labours with pleasure : but give me leave to fay, your hottentot performance was fuch a naufeous piece of ftupidity, that, if you don't fpeedily retrieve your honour, I fhall wifh fome of you to be the happy bridegrooms at the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE; and can't now forbear expreffing my female indignation, by prefenting you with the following lines, as my prefent fentiments of your finking fociety, which, if you dare, you may print in your next. L Yours, BELINDA, ONG have I thought your club to be A tett of lively brilliant wits: But now 'tis plain, you're marry'd cits, Your Your fprightly joys feem paft the full; On a Beautiful LADY who was Blind ΤΗ } HO' beauteous MIRA heav'n deprives of fight, To view those charms, which give the world delight; Let not her heart, opprefs'd with grief, complain: Had the beheld her form, fhe had been vain. One fenfe in pure compaffion heaven denies; And to fecure her virtue, dims her eyes. Grubftreet Journal, No 62. The CITY LADIES and COUNTRY LASS. The Words by Mr. LOCKMAN; and afterwards fet to Mufic by Dr. PEPUSCH. T Hrice happy Lizzy, blooming maid! Bleft tenant of the rural scene, (Whofe joy's unmix'd with pining care When ev'ning comes, with artless fmile, With tripping o'er th' enamell'd green. CLARINDA fair, in jewels dreft, Delight like this, will quickly cloy; In tripping o'er th'enamell'd green. When When LINDAMIRA in the dance When COQUETILLA cards invite Hail blifsful life which Lizzy leads, T Upon WIT. RUE wit is like the brilliant stone Which boasts two various powers in one, Genius like that, if polifh'd right, Appears at once both keen and bright, BAVIUS. Grub Grubftreet Journal, No 65. The following Letter I receiv'd fome time ago from BURTON in STAFFORDSHIRE. OUR old friend JMS Yo having purchafed upon an estate in this neighbourhood, lives now amongst us, and is fo kind as to make very pretty copies of verses perfons and fubjects that occur hereabouts. I now fend you fome verfes which he repeated the other day at an entertainment made on account of the birth-day of the young Lord ANDOVER, fon to the earl of BERKSHIRE. ANDOVER! with foft attraction gay; Which the fire cherish'd, and the fon must own. And the bad world yields BERKSHIRE to the skies; BAVIUS. The WATERMAN'S Reply to the DOCTER'S ANSWER, printed in the CRAFTSMAN of SATURDAY laft. HE waterman thus to the doctor reply'd, tod, been ally'd, And we too, like you, love to go with the tide. Grub Grubftreet Journal, No 66. W To Mrs. M. H. HEN firft, MARILLA, on thy charms I gaz'd, From those bright eyes what rays of glory blaz'd! Lightning, 'tis faid (fo fubtile is the fire) Will melt the fword, and leave the sheath entire. On Mr. JAMES MOORE's pretty Verfes on the Birth-day of the LORD ANDOVER,printed in our laft Journal. HAT makes for once, fquire JEMMY'S mufe fo toward? WHAT Mere joy to fee a coufin of NED HOWARD. BAVIUS. An EPITAPH upon a learned Gentleman lately deceas'd. N expectatione judicii, Hominum PARADOXOTATOS, Natione Gallus, religione Romanus : Orbis litterati portentum: Venerandæ antiquitatis cultor & deftructor. Docte |