Hamilton, Elizabeth MEMOIRS OF MODERN PHILOSOPHERS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. "Ridiculum acri "Fortius et melius magnas plerumque fecat res." HOR. "Ridicule fhall frequently prevail, FRANCIS. DUBLIN: PRINTED BY BRETT SMITH, FOR WOGAN, BURNETT, GILBERT AND HODGES, BROWN, RICE, PORTER, DORNIN, FOLINGSBY, AND FITZPATRICK. 1800. "With too much thinking to have common thought.' POPE. WHEN Bridgetina returned to the parlour, and found that Henry had departed without taking leave of her, fhe was beyond measure difconcerted. She had the day before received from Mr. Glib a new novel, the declamatory stile and quaint phrafeology of which had fo highly pleased her, that anxious to dress her thoughts on the prefent occafion to the very best advantage, the had retired to refresh her memory with a few of the most striking paffages; fhe now returned fraught with three long fpeeches, fo ardent, fo expreffive, fo full of energy and emphasis, that it would have grieved a faint to have had them loft. "And is he gone?" cried the, in a voice that at once denoted her furprife and mortification. "Was his fenfibility too great to bear the sad-sad fcene of feparation? It was not his own feelings but mine, of which he was thus tender. the delightful excefs of morbid fenfibility!" Ah! Julia, perceiving the aftonishment of Mr. Gubbles, felt very much afhamed; and afraid left. Bridgetina fhould ftill further expofe herself, begged her, in a whisper, to fay no more upon the subject A 2 |