# THE Lady's Magazine; OR, Entertaining Companion for the FAIR SEX, appropriated folely to their Ufe and Amusement. 1 Love at firft Sight NUMBER contains 227 17, Answer to G. R-f-y's Requent 253 255 256 257 259 2 Marriage Ceremony in Magindano 18 On the Study of Geography 218 19 Account of Fatal Falfhood 20 On the Power of Philofophy 21 The Matron 230 3 Powers and Progrefs of Music tain 5 Philofophical Queries 6 Obfervations on Dramatic Pieces called Mysteries 22 Thoughts on the Return of Spring 201 23 Military Diftrefs 233 234 235 263 24 On the Pleasures of Solitude 266 25 Extraordinary Performance on the Violin 236 7 Characters of Lewis XIV. and Madame Maintenon 8 The unfortunate Acquisition 237 9 Effects of Chivalry on Tafte and Man 267 268 26 Enigmatical Questions 245 28 Foreign News 13 Account of the Double Deception 246 14 The Governess 248 15 Thoughts on a Country Life 249 31 Marriages 16 Thoughts on the return of Spring 251 32 Deaths -A Rebus 269-272 273 275 286 ibid ibid This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates, viz. 1. An elegant Pattern of a Sprig. 2. A beautiful historical Picture of Love at first Sight and 3. A Song, fet to Music by Mr. Handel. LONDON: Printed for G. Robin'on, No. 25, Paternoster-Row, where Favours from Correspondents will be received. WE E are much obliged to Mifs Murray, the author of Menteria, for the honour fhe has done us by tranfmitting to us her Poems, which we recommend to the perufal of the fex, as an ingenious and fenfible performance. We are equally indebted to C. Crut-wel, furgeon, at Bath, for his Advice to Lying-in-Women, chiefly respecting the Cuftom of drawing the Breafts. His obfervations, though contrary to a received opinion, carry with them great weight, and fhould be confidered by every one in a ftate of pregnancy, as well as those whofe profeffion it is to attend in an hour of fuch imminent danger. An humble fervant of the Wou'd-be-fashionable, complains of the want of the article on drefs, and defires that we would request fome of our correfpondents, refiding in the metropolis, to affume that tafk; to which we, willingly confent, and hope that our patroneffes will not fuffer fo important a department in etiquette to remain longer unnoticed. Nemo begs the author of 'Hiftoire d'Emilie to continue her work, as he has tranflated it from the beginning, and intends tranfmitting it to us for publication, when compleat. and Mifs Clara R Henrietta Rs, &c. will excufe us for calling upon them for the discharge of a debt, which they owe to the public. In profe we are favoured with The Storm, a Paftoral, by M******. An Evening's Walk, by J. S-th-n. A Letter to the Correfpondent who has favoured us with An Account of the Spider. Enigmatical Lift of young Ladies in Broad-Street, Radcliff, in Stepney Caufey, by Strephon. Lift of Heathen Gods, by Minerva. Lift of Squares in London, by Maria. Lift of Fishes, by T. B. Coileges in the University of Oxford, by W. M. &c. Translations of L'Hirondelle, by Cath. Worth, at Mrs. Porter's boarding-fchool, Launcefton, Cornwall. In poetry we have been honoured with An Enigmatical Lift of Names in Twickenham, and Lines infcribed to Capt. M. by Georgiana W, and Maria Ws. Folly detected, by M. The Origin and Duration of Love, and a Song by a Rotheroffan. An Anfwer to the Simile at the Clofe of the Poem by the Lady in Affliction, and an Epigram, by Philomufa. Invocation to Sylvia, occafioned by a Ball on May Morning, by Ben Johnson. Verfes infcribed to a young Lady on ker Saying "the Weather was like the World," by Amator. Verfes by a Friend to an Unfortunati, in imitation of Gay, by E. Jan. To Nancy, and To the Limiboufe Lafs, Author of the Verfes in December Magazine, by G R—ƒ—3. A Sonnet, by R. S. H. Enigma, by William Jones. On Love, by T. Tn. Colin and Chloe, a Pafloral, by H. Lemoine. The Choice. To Nancy, by MTo Mifs Hannah Moore, on feeing her Tragedy of Fatal Falsehood, &c. by T. B. Addrefs to Mijs Charlotte W, by Damor. To Delia, by E-g-s. With a variety of other pieces, for which we are very thankful. G. R. may affure himself that his continuation of his correspondence will be grateful to to the Republic; the handsome manner in which he fpeaks of the author of The Female Reformer, fhews how much he has the real improvement of the fex at heart. HE attachments of love are fudden, founded upon predilection; but the confequence is not always happy. Florinda conceived a predilection for the ftranger-the stranger was in no cafe her debtor. His continual difcourfe with his friends was, that he wished to fee her again; he wished he had spoken his fentiments to her."Wishing (faid his friends) never conquered kingdoms: endeavours fometimes are effectual-See her, try her." Florinda was the flame of her pa- "I will, (replied Beniogno) I will. rifh though a ruftic, fhe did not want If he be a mere ruftic, without forfor education or fortune: fhe ftill af- tune, I will have her. She wants not fected the rural drefs and the ruftic the graces; she wants nothing to make manners. The inhabitants of her vil-an hufband happy. If modefty, if delage endeavoured to gain her heart, licacy, if cultivated mental parts have but they endeavoured in vain. She any appreciation, fhe muft make any faw no one whom she could efteem-hufband happy. But I am afraid that no one whom she could prefer. The round of feveral years, after she was fixteen, could not fix her heart; and her father, who wished for a fettlement, wifhed it had been fixed long before. fhe is pre-engaged. I am afraid that she does not like me-Her behaviour was fo cool, fo difdainful, when I talked to her with too much freedom as a ftranger." On the first of May, a day of feftivity in the country, her father gave her leave to accompany the eldest fon of a neighbouring farmer to a "I will not give over the chace, dance. She was chofen queen of the (replied Beniogno)-I am determined May. Some gentlemen from the me- to return to the delightful fpot, to fee tropolis going that way, were ftopped the queen of May, to pour my fenfa by the found of pipe and tabor. They tions into her ears, to incline her eialighted--Florinda was then goingther to pity, or to forgive me. down in a country dance with her poffibly prevail-I may not-the alpartner. Her movement, her perfon-ternative is either happiness or mifery. al charms, affected one of the ftrangers. The event I leave to providence." His friends found that he was caught, laughed at him-But fhe appeared en referve. Thofe who know what love is, may eafily folve this problem. "You are a foolish fellow, (replied his friend)-You give over the chace. before you have beat the bushes." The companions of Beniogno laughed at him; but ftill he continued refolute. After they quitted him he ftill perfifted in his attachment. The Gg? next |