No. 46 Obligations to fecrecy critically stated, 47 A parallel between Alexander and a high wayman, 48 How far the precept to love our enemies is practicable 49 Parallel between ancient and modern learning 50 On lying 1 Translation of a manufcript of Longinus lately discovered, containing a comparison of celebrated paffages in Pagan and Jewish writers Page 69 75 83 89 96 102 52 Diftreffes of an author invited to read his play 109 53 Mifargyrus's account of his companions in the 58 Prefumption of modern criticifm cenfured. Ancient poetry neceffarily obfcure. Examples from Horace. 150 59 Poets not univerfally or neceffarily poor, 158 165 171 62 Mifargyrus's account of his companions con cluded 179 63 Paucity of original writers. Paffages which Pope has borrowed, pointed out 18 THE ADVENTURER. No. XXXVI. Saturday, March 10. 1753. Afpera Nigris æquora ventis Emirabitnr infolens, Qui nunc te fruitur credulus auret, Qui femper vacuam, femper amabilem Sperat, nefcius aure Fallacis! How often Ihall th' unpractis'd youth With tears, alas! complain! How foon behold with wond'ring eyes He now enjoys thee, golden maid, Thus amiable and kind; He fondly hopes that you shall prove Thus ever vacant to his love, HOR Nor heeds the faithlefs wind. FRANCIS THE ladies, to whom I lately addreffed fome thoughts upon the choice of a husband, I fhall to-day confider 'Vo. II. A as & as married; and as I am very far from thinking that they may now fit down in negligent fecurity, and remit at once their affiduity and circumfpection, I fhall warn them of fome opinions of which this conduct is the confequence, detect fome errors by which the general intention of good-nature may be difappointed, and endeavour to put them upon their guard against fome propenfities by which it may be overborne. It is now neceffary to remind them, that the paffion which is supposed to animate the lover, the paffion which is represented by flames and darts, which fwells the bofom with perpetual rapture, and neither changes its object nor lofes its ardour, exifts only in poetry and The real paffion which wit and folly have thus concurred to difguife, is fubject to disgust and fatiety, is excited by novelty, and frequently extinguished by poffeffion. romance. It is alfo equally true, that a refined and abstracted friendship between perfons of different fexes, a union of fouls to which the corporal paffion is merely accidental, is only to be found in the writings of those enthufiafts, who have addreffed the world from a cave or a college, and perhaps denied the force of defires which they could not fubdue; or in the profeffions of infidious hypocrites, who have endeavoured thus to gain a confidence, which they intend only to abufe. But there is an esteem which is meliorated by love, and a love that is elevated by esteem; a kind of mixed affection, peculiar to mankind as beings compounded of inftinct and reafon, or, in other words, of body and mind. This is that fpecies of affection, upon which the supreme or peculiar happiness of marriage depends, and which can scarce be preserved without a conftant attention and perpetual efforts. As |