"Twere furely found in thee: dim paffions mark
Stern manhood's brow, where age impreffes dark
The ftealing line of forrow; but thine eye
Wears not diftruft, or grief, or perfidy :-

Though fortune's ftorms with difmal fhadow low'r,
Thy heart nor fears, nor feels, the bitter show'r;
Thy tear is foon forgotten; thou wilt weep,

And then the murmuring winds will hufh thy fleep,
As 'twere with fome fad mufick;-and thy fmiles,
Unlike to those that mafk oft cruel wiles,

Plead beft thy fpeechlefs innocence, and lend
A charm might win the world to be thy friend!
But thou art oft abandon'd in thy fmiles,
And early vice thy eafy heart beguiles.
O for fome voice, that of the secret maze
Where the grim paffions lurk, the winding ways
That lead to fin, and ruth, and deep lament,
Might haply warn thee, whilft yet innocent,
And beauteous as the fpring-time o'er the hills
Advancing, when each vale glad mufick fills!
Elfe loft and wand'ring, the benighted mind
No fpot of reft again fhall ever find:

Then the sweet smiles, that erft enchanting laid
Their magick beauty on thy look, shall fade:
Then the bird's warbled fong no more shall cheer
With morning mufic thy delighted car:
Fell thoughts and muttering paffions fhall awake,
And the fair rofe the fullied cheek forfake!-

As when fill autumn's gradual gloom is laid
Far o'er the fading foreft's fadden'd shade,
A mournful gleam illumines the cold hill,
Yet palely wand'ring o'er the diftant rill;
But when the hollow guft, flow rifing, raves,
And high the pine on yon lone fummit waves,
Each milder charm, like pictures of a dream,
Is perish'd, mute the birds, and dark the stream;
Scuds the drear fleet upon the whirlwind borne,
And fcowls the landfcape clouded and forloin!-

So fades, fo perifhes, frail virtue's hue:-Her laft and lingering fmile feems but to rue,

Like autumn, every fummer beauty reft,
Till all is dark and to the winter left.

Yet fpring, with living touch, fhall paint again
The green-leav'd forest, and the purple plain;
With mingling melody the woods fhall ring,
The whifp'ring breeze its long-loft incenfe fling:
But, innocence! when once thy tender flower
The fickly taint has touch'd, where is that power
That fhall bring back its fragrance, or restore
The tints of loveliness, that shine no more?"

Coleridge has spoken very highly of Mr. Bowles's poetical character in the introduction to his own Sonnets, which indeed are in imitation of Bowles: but as the mufe of Mr. Coleridge is rather diftinguished by vehemence and fingularity, while that of Mr. Bowles is confeffedly plaintive and fimple, thofe compofitions which may be ranked as the Sonnets of Mr. C are very different from the fame productions in Mr. Bowles. Mr. Bowles has alfo an unaffected mode of expreffion, which has in fome inftances by Mr. Coleridge, but much more fo by Mr. Southey, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. Lamb, and others of this caft, been extended to a fimplicity not feldom bor. dering on the ridiculous.

The Plan of Education purfued in Mrs. Linden's Academy, No. 45, Hans-Place, Sloane-freet. Ridgeway. Is. WITH the plan of FEMALE EDUCATION which is

here delineated, we are much pleased. It is drawn up with judgment and accuracy; with the topics of knowledge which this courfe includes, none of the fair fex fhould remain unacquainted,

We are happy to fee that a proper attention is now paid to the understanding of the female part of the creation. Their neglect in times past has in many cafes been deplorable. Hence the taunts of unprincipled men on

the

the inferiority of the fex. Whereas the real truth is, that their intellect has not been equally cultivated with that of the lords of the creation! We do not indeed agree, in every refpect, with the fyftem of the late Mrs. Woolftoncraft. But we are firmly perfuaded, that the minds of females fhould be carefully cultivated in the early part of life. To them, hath Providence committed the care of our infancy and childhood, and a greater refponfibility cannot be incurred. Let their minds therefore be stored with the choicest information.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We thank a Conftant Reader for his hints, and he will perceive from this Number that fome attention has been paid to his friendly fuggestions.

Lines on Hope, and alfo Alonzo, are too imperfect for infertion.

We particularly thank Oxonienfis for his communications, and hope to hear often from him. We alfo with that he could procure us fome more pieces by the late ingenious Mr. Thyer, of Manchefter.

Cheetham's Poems fhall be reviewed in our next Number. Alfo, LORD ORFORD'S Works.

Retrofpe&tion-Lines on Good Friday-Strictures on the Verfification and Sentiment of Modern Poetry, together with other favours, are under confideration.

"Anecdotes" offered by our Cambridge Correfpondent will be gratefully received.

To our Correfpondents in general, we would recommend the expreffing of their fentiments with concifenefs and accuracy -and the tranfmitting their pieces to us at an early part of the month. An attention to thefe particulars will facilitate their infertion.

Published as the Act directs July 11798 by H.D.Symonds Paternoster Row.