صور الصفحة
PDF
النشر الإلكتروني

Thus I spoke, and speaking sigh'd,
Scarce repress'd the starting tear,
When the hoary sage replied,

Come, my lad, and drink some beer.

BURLESQUE of the following Lines of LOPEZ DE VEGA. AN IMPROMPTU.

SE acquien los leones vence
Vence una muger hermosa
O el de flaco averguençe

O ella di ser mas furiosa.

Ir the man who turnips cries,
Cry not when his father dies,
'Tis a proof that he had rather
Have a turnip than his father.

TRANSLATION of the following Lines at the End of BARETTI's Easy Phraseology. An IM

PROMPTU.

VIVA Viva la padrona!

Tutta bella, e tutta buona,
La padrona è un angiolella
Tutta buona e tutta bella;

Tutta bella e tutta buona ;
Viva! viva la padrona!

LONG may live my lovely Hetty!
Always young and always pretty;

Always pretty, always young,
Live my lovely Hetty long!

Always young, and always pretty,
Long may live my lovely Hetty!

1

IMPROVISO TRANSLATION of the following Distich on the Duke of Modena's running away from the comet in 1742 or 1743.

SE al venir vostro i principi se n' vanno
Deh venga ogni dì-durate un anno.

Ir at your coming princes disappear,

Comets! come ev'ry day-and stay a year.

IMPROVISO TRANSLATION of the following
Lines of M. BENSERADE à son Lit.

THEATRE des ris, et des pleurs,
Lit! où je nais, et où je meurs,
Tu nous fais voir comment voisins
Sont nos plaisirs et nos chagrins.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry,
And born in bed, in bed we die;
The near approach a bed may shew
Of human bliss to human woe.

EPITAPH FOR MR HOGARTH.

THE hand of him here torpid lies,
That drew th' essential form of grace;
Here clos'd in death the attentive eyes,
That saw the manners in the face.

TRANSLATION of the following Lines written under a Print representing Persons skating.

SUR un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas, Le précipice est sous la glace:

Telle est de nos plaisirs la legère surface: Glissez, mortels; n'appuyez pas.

O'ER ice the rapid skater flies,

With sport above, and death below; Where mischief lurks in gay disguise, Thus lightly touch and quickly go.

IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION of the Same.

O'ER crackling ice, o'er gulfs profound,
With nimble glide the skaters play;
O'er treach❜rous Pleasure's flowery ground
Thus lightly skim, and haste away.

TO MRS THRALE, on her completing her
thirty-fifth year. An IMPROMPTU.

OFT in danger, yet alive,

We are come to thirty-five;
Long may better years arrive,
Better years than thirty-five!
Could philosophers contrive
Life to stop at thirty-five,

Time his hours should never drive

O'er the bounds of thirty-five.

High to soar, and deep to dive,
Nature gives at thirty-five.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive,
Trifle not at thirty-five;

For, howe'er we boast and strive,
Life declines from thirty-five.
He that ever hopes to thrive
Must begin by thirty-five;

And all who wisely wish to wive
Must look on THRALE at thirty-five.

IMPROMPTU TRANSLATION of an Air in the Clemenza de Tito of METASTASIO, beginning "Deh se piacermi vuoi."

WOULD you hope to gain my heart,
Bid your teazing doubts depart;
He, who blindly trusts, will find
Faith from ev'ry gen'rous mind:
He, who still expects deceit,
Only teaches how to cheat.

TRANSLATION of a Speech of AQUILEIO in the
ADRIANO of METASTASIO, beginning "Tu che in
Corte invechiasti."

GROWN old in courts, thou surely art not one
Who keeps the rigid rules of ancient honour;
Well skill'd to soothe a foe with looks of kindness,
To sink the fatal precipice before him,

And then lament his fall with seeming friendship: Open to all, true only to thyself,

Thou know'st those arts which blast with envious praise,

Which aggravate a fault with feign'd excuses,
And drive discount'nanc'd virtue from the throne;
That leave the blame of rigour to the prince,
And of his ev'ry gift usurp the merit ;
That hide in seeming zeal a wicked purpose,
And only build upon another's ruin.

« السابقةمتابعة »