A ON LOVE. LL hail! thou tyrant Love, whose power The fecret will and paffions of our fouls. Love raifes in our minds an useful thought A lover's mind is like a stormy fea That's in perpetual motion; and we fee The foul is feiz'd by love, as is the blood By agues; first a shiv'ring, then a flood Of burning heat: fo love will always show Of fear and hope, perpetual ebb and flow. In Love, the hero's courage we may view, The man's fears, the madman's folly too; And at first fight, we equally may fee 'Tis raging madness, then neceffity. It is now joy, then grief-now hopes, then fears, And all that's ferious, calm, and fierce appears. 'Tis Love inspires the eloquence of men, And Love it is inspires the poet's pen. Hope is the lover's refuge, and he'll find, That one kind look will eafe his tortur'd mind. His down-caft heart ne'er knew a found fo fweet, His heavy ears ne'er heard fuch concords meet. Not all the founds of martial mufic, join'd In concert with the warbling birds and wind, And murm'ring waters, that through vallies glide With all the pow'rs of vocal charms beside, Could in his foul fuch pleasing raptures move, As when his dear Louisa said, " I love." Soon as a foulis seiz'd by Love, 'twill know, 'Tis sweet, 'tis bitter, rapid 'tis, and flow, Famine or time may well perform a cure, But if not, and the flame you can't endure, Go hang thyself-a remedy that's fure. Great is its influence, boundless is its reign, Nought can its actions check, or will reftrain. Thou, Nature, never would'st preside My lov'd Olympiad! oft in thee, The fun when funk beneath the hill, In humble life conceal'd? Thy muse, when the extends her flight, Can I to celebrate thy name Here, on the left, by Arbia's fide, Arbia that gently leads A graffy hillock rises fair, Thus Horace in the Sabine grove The juniper and laurel here, Where fair engrav'd the happy few Regulus, Artaxerxes view, But where th' Olympiad holds a place And thrice each day my votive lays To thee the ruftic fong! * An Italian composer. + A French sculptor. } The The winged infects, and the reptile tribe, It braves the world, and rules both small and great. Stella foar on (to nobler objects true) An ADDRESS to Miss WINNE, of The feather'd warblers quit the feather'd shade, Plymouth. I N the gay room, where in affembiage bright The focial Graces and the Loves unite, Such as once fill'd Jove's court, as poets sung, With founds of joy when high Olympus rung, Where Juno with a mien majestic charm'd, And fmiling Venus every bosom warm'd; While Cupid sported, Phœbus tun'd the lyre, And all the Muses join'd the fprightly choir; See where Winne comes, fair as the Cyprian queen On Ida's lofty hill, by Paris seen, Thro' all the maze of life, where'er you bend maid, For Death will come, and that fine form will fade, AN OLD CORRSSFONDENT. LINES By Mrs. YEARSLEY, the celebrated Milk- UNEQUAL, loft to th' afpiring claim, I neither own nor afk the immortal name. Of friend-oh, no, its ardours are too great, My foul too narrow, and too low my itate; Quit those dear scenes where life and love began, given, The dubious Atheist well might doubt a heaven: THE MISLETOE AND THE PASSION FLOWER. A FABLE. By Mr. LANGHORN. N this dim cave a druid fleeps, Where itops the paffing gale to moan; The rock he hallow'd o'er him weeps, And cold drops wear the fretted stone. In this dim cave, of different creed, The holy hermit's paffion-flower. I hear it still-Dost thou not hear? Does not thy haunted fancy start? The found fill vibrates thro' mine earThe horror rushes on my heart, Unlike to living founds it came, Unmix'd, unmelodiz'd with breath; I hear it still-" Depart," it cries; O'er human victims held the knife, Dart thro the fable shade of hair? What meagre form behind him moves, With eye that rues th' invading day; And wrinkled afpect wan, that proves The mind to pale remorse a prey? What wretched-Hark!-the voice replies, "Boy, bear these idle honours hence! For here a guilty hermit lies, Untrue to nature, virtue, sense. Tho' Nature lent him powers to aid The moral cause, the mutual weal: Go, teach the drone of faintly haunts, And bear from hence the plant, the flower; THERE dost thou, Memory, thy feat W maintain? In what recesses of the brain? By thee we call past scenes again to view, Without the aid which we receive rrom thee Like bubbles floating on the filver stream, Thy faithful records long impress'd retain When pain or pleasure's o'er: To thee how many comforts do we owe! Without thee love and friendship too Would give delight no more! When ev'ry present object fails to please, By thee alone all knowledge we attain; In vain fair science spreads her ample store, E'en Tully's eloquence in vain would charm, If traces none remain Of what we read, or what attentive hear: O, Pow'r Supreme! from whom alone mankind Vouchsafe to hear my prayer: Teddington, Feb. 17, 1785. L CLASSICUS. VERSES Written the 30th of March, 1784. No fprightly notes are warbled from the spray; Untimely snows again deform the fields, No leaves, no flow'rs, no blossoms we descry: And all her vernal charms once more to find. Teddington, March 12, 1785. WINTER. N° WINTER. AN ODE. By the late Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. With fighs we view the hoary hill, Congeal'd, impetuous showers descend; In Nature's aid, let art supply And o'er the season wine prevail. Nor love, nor wine, the spring restore. ΕΡΙΤΑΡΗ on Dr. JOHNSON. YE E vain, licentious wits! your distance keep, Learning hath lost her prop in Johnson's end, But tho' thy form be snatch'd from mortal eye, Loughborough, Leicestershire, Improv'd, O great philologer, by thee Teddington, Jan. 13, 1785. TH well. Пеер; This life is no more than a journey 'tis faid, L MATHEMATICS. ANSWERS TO MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS. 80. QUESTION (I. Dec.) not answered. 81. QUESTION (II. Dec.) answered by the proposer. ET S represent the fun, E the earth, and M the planet in its orbit AMMB. Draw SM and EM, and produce the latter to e; then I say that the part of the enlightened disk of an inferior planet which can be seen from the earth will always be as the versed fine of the angle SMe, that is, as the versed sine of the supplement of the angle contained between lines drawn from the planet to the earth and fun. For ac being drawn perpendicular to SM, bd to EM, and ar to bd; it is manifeft that abe will be the enlightened disk of the planet, ab that portion of it which is visible to a spectator on the earth at E; and br, which is the versed fine of the arc ba, will be the apparent breadth of it. But br is the versed fine of the arch ba, which is equal to ne, the measure of the exterior angle SMe, of the triangle SME, because aMS, and bMe are both right angles. Now it is demonstrated by the writers on menfuration, that the areas of iuch lunule as form the visible parts of the enlightened disks of the planets are as the rectangles contained by the greatest breadths of them and the diameters of the spheres on which they are formed: but, in this cafe, the diameter A C e 71 S a Mra Le B Md a E of the planet being a conftant quantity, the areas will be as their greatest apparent breadth; that is, as the versed fines br of the angle SMe, which, according to ME+MS+SE×ME+MS-SE trigonometrical writers is equal to Putting, there fore, a SE, b=SM, and x=EM, 2MSXME x+b+axx+b-a 26x will be as the illuminated part of the planet seen from the earth. But the intensity of the light of any lumi. nous object is directly as the illuminated furface, and inversely as the square of its distance from the spectator; confequently, as the intensity of the light of mercury, which will be greatest when -2bx4x 8b2x3x+6a2bx2x-6b3a2x, its fluxion, is equal o; that is, when x2+4bx=3a2 -362, and then x = √3a2+b2-26. Let a be expounded by 1; then, according to Dr. Halley's Tables, b will be ,3871; and x, or EM, 1,00058. Hence, the angle ESM, or the difference between the heliocentric longitude of the planet and that of the earth will be 789 55' 41"; whereas the fame angle, at the time of the planet's greatest elongation from the fun is only 67° 13'; Mercury is therefore brightest between the time of its greatest elongation and that of its fuperior conjunction; and its elongation at that time, or the angle SEM, is 22o 18′47′′. If, instead of Mercury, we would inquire into the situation of the planet Venus, when its splendour is greatest, the very fame equation will resolve the problem: for retaining a, the mean distance of the earth from the fun, 1, that of Venus, by Halley's Table, will be .72333, for the value of b; from whence we shall have EM (x) in this cafe, .43036, and the angle ESM=22° 20' 57"; whereas that angle, at the time of the planet's greatest elongation is 43° 40% Consequently, Venus is brightest between the time of her greatest elongation, and her inferior conjunction; Mma |