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CONVERSATIONS ON THE ARTS.-By JUNINUS.

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MISS Eve. Do you know any || Warton, in his Essay on Pope, to have particulars of Sir John Suckling, been occasioned by the following the poet? circumstance: He was robbed by his valet de chambre; the moment he discovered it, he clapped on his boots in a passionate hurry, and perceived not a large rusty nail that was concealed at the bottom, which pierced his heel and brought on a mortification. His works, which were collected into one volume, consist of a few poems, chiefly songs, sketches, tracts, letters, and five plays.

Miss Eve. Will you give me a specimen of his songs?

Miss K. He was the son of Sir John S. comptroller of the household to King Charles I. and was born in 1609. He particularly cultivated music and poetry, and was universally allowed to be one of the most accomplished gentlemen of his time. In his youth he travelled on the Continent, where he made a campaign under the great Gustavus Adolphus: "and if his valour," says Langbaine, "was not so remarkable in the beginning of the civil wars, yet his loyalty was extremely conspicuous; for, at his of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white, own charge, he raised a troop of horse for the king's service, so richly and completely mounted, that it is said to have cost him £12,000." But these troops and their leader distinguished themselves only by their finery. His death, which There's no such thing as that we beauty call, happened in 1642, is said by Dr. No. LVIII. Vol. X.

Miss K. Here is one on love.

To make up my delight,

No odd becoming graces,

Black eyes, or little know-not-whats in faces:
Make me but mad enough, give me good store

Of love for her I court,

I ask no more,

'Tis love in love that makes the sport.

It is mere cosenage all :

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knew its place, and the bounds of || among the trees of growth and verdure not to be expressed. They are acquainted with all the utmost mysteries of sound, and are possessed with the very soul of harmony. Art is their's in all its charming notes, its blandishments and graces. Whatever Nature can boast in her wild licentious charms, îs governed by them. The winding vales, the streams and groves breathe magic at their command. The nightingale and dying swan. seem to complain to gentle zephyrs, whispering through the trees; whilst a thousand airy songsters warble to the measured fall of high cascades, which by intervals sink

darkness were determined, before man was formed of the ground and the Almighty breathed into him a living soul. An immeasurable duration before this, the unlimited Creator had made and peopled milfions of glorious worlds: the inhabitants of that which I am describing, stood their probation, and we confirmed them in their original rectitude. They are exempt from all evil, blest to the height of their faculties and conceptions, and privileged with immortality. Their residence may properly be called the enchanted world: whatever you have heard fabled of fairy scenes, of vocal groves, and palaces risinging into a deep silence, after a to magic sounds, is all real here, grateful pause, shrill recorders and and performed by the easy and na- silver trumpets sound, while harmtural operations of these active spi-less thunders roll above and break rits. I have in an instant seen pa- with a glorious solemnity. Still laces ascend to a majestic height, the blissful tempest rises and swells sparkling as the stars and transpa-the mind to sacred grandeur and rent as the unclouded æther. I seraphic elevation, till subdued and might describe them like the court-melted into softness by the meloly prophet: "Their walls were fair colours, their foundations sapphire, the windows of agate, and the gates of carbuncle." Their materials are all glittering and refined, not, like the earthly globe, dark and heavy. These ætherials are the nicest judges of symmetry and proportion, and by the disposition of light and shadow, and the mixture of a thousand dazzling co-portioned their shapes! their aspect lours, form the most charming prospects. They have such a command and knowledge of the powers of nature, that, in an instant, they raise a variety of sylvan scenes, and carry their perspective though verdant avenues and flowery walks, to an immeasurable length; while living fountains cast up their silver spouts, and form glittering arches" ders."

dy of tuneful reeds, warbling lutes, and sweet enchanting voices of the Lydian strain. The language of this charming region is perfectly musical and elegant, and becoming the inhabitants, who are fair and rosy as the opening morn, clear as the meridian light, and fragrant as the breath of jessamine or newblown roses. How exquisitely pro

how transporting! how gentle, how charming, beyond all the race of mortal men! never did the eyelids of the morning open on such perfection, nor did the sun, since it first journeyed through the skies, behold such beauty; nor can human fancy, in its most inspired flights, conceive such amiable won,