...calm with your joys, gently glide thro' the day. The dews of the evening most caiefully shun, They are tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in...night, like the day, pass with pleasure along. All care," but of Love, banish far from your mind, And those you may end, when you please to be kindMARY...

...down to dinner you sit, Where the chief of the feast, is the flow of your wit : Let this be indulged, and let laughter go round ; As it pleases your mind,...All cares, but of love, banish far from your mind ; £ 35 } JOHN CUNNINGHAM. Dublin. 1729—1773. Cunningham's father was a wine-cooper at Dublin, who...

...wisdom, with innocence gay, ArSf calm with your joys gently glide through th» The dews of tneevening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the...mind ; And those you may end, when you .please to b« E 55 ] JOHN CUNNINGHAM, Dublin. 1729—1 773. Cunningham's father was a wine-cooper at Dublin,...

...readers will recollect the celebrated couplet of Lord Chesterfield, in his Advice to a Lady in Autumn : The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the iky for the loss of the sun. Gray, in his Elegy in a Country Churchyard, exhibits a fine picture of...

...than these verses of lord Chesterfield ? Mowbray, you who are a judge, listen to these two lines : * The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' Norn, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a prettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm...

...than these verses of lord Chesterfield? Mowbray, you who are a judge, listen to these two lines: ' The dews of the evening most carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun." Now, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a prettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm...

...has put this metaphor in the best form, but it is still a mere conceit — " The dews of the ev'ning most carefully shun " Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun." defect generally lies in the inaptitude or want pf similarity in the image. It is the iron door of...

...Chesterfield ? Mowbray, you who are a judge, listen to these two lines : ' The dews of the evening moat carefully shun, Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' Now, here's your friend, Mr. Harrington, says it's only a ftrettiness, and something about Ovid. I'm...

...as a model of affected >rettine&9: <'J !»•-»«;•;• * •• i .w , ; . . ' j.. ••,.;. « The dews oF the evening most carefully shun, ' ' Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.' An extempore couplet in: a different style has been preserve'd jy a foreigner : f Sir Thomas Robinson,'...

...Scotland. (Ann. Regist. 1775, part ip 138.) t Reprinted at vol. ii. p 3ii1— 424 of the present edition. " The dews of the evening most carefully shun, " Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun ! " As also the following : " ' Mary, bring me my gown !' " Slip on that ere you rise, let your caution...