...Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide through the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure along....

...Thus cheerful with wisdom, with innocence gay, And calm with your joys gently glide through the day. The dews of the evening most carefully shun ; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure...

...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 loss of the sun. Then in chat, or at play, with a dance, or a song, Let the night, like the day, pass with pleasure...

...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." Now, 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.' Norn, 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...

...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...

...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...