On observing some Names of little note recorded in the Biographia Britannica. OH, fond attempt to give a deathless lot So when a child, as playful children use, REPORT Of an adjudged Case, not to be found in any of the Books. I. BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, II. So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind. IV. Then holding the spectacles up to the court. Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short, V. Again, would your lordship a moment suppose, VI, On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, VII. Then shifting his side, (as a lawyer knows now,) So his lordship decreed, with a grave solemn tone, GN THE BURNING OF LORD MANSFIELD'S LIBRARY, TOGETHER WITH HIS MSS. By the Mob, in the month of June, 1780 I. So then the Vandals of our isle, II. And Murray sighs o'er Pope and Swift, The well-judged purchase and the gift, III. Their pages mangled, burnt, and torn, The loss was his alone; But ages yet to come shall mourn The burning of his own. ON THE SAME. I. WHEN Wit and Genius meet their doom In all-devouring flame, And bid us fear the same, II. O'er Murray's loss the muses wept, Yet bless'd the guardian care that kept III. There mem'ry, like the bee, that's fed From Flora's balmy store, The quintessence of all he read Had treasur'd up before. IV. The lawless herd, with fury blind, Have done him cruel wrong; The flow'rs are gone-but still we find THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED; OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED. * THUS says the prophet of the Turk- What joint the prophet had in mind. He meant not to forbid the head; And piously prefer the tail. Thus conscience freed from ev'ry clog, Mahometans eat up the hog. *It may be proper to inform the reader, that this piece has already appeared in print, having found its way, though with some unnecessary additions by an unknown hand, into the Leeds Journal, without the author's privity. |