The Spirit of the Public Journals - 3 Author:Stephen Jones Subtitle: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most Exquisite Essays and Jeux D'esprits, Principally Prose, That Appear in the Newspapers and Other Publications Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1805 Original Publisher: Printed for James Ridgway Subjects: English literature Literary Collections / En... more »glish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: IX. " No more toupees are feen That mock at Alpine height, And queues with many a yard of riband bound, All now are vanifh'd quite. No tongs, nor torturing pin, But ev'ry head is trimm'd quite fnug around: lake boys of the cathedral choir, Curls, fuch as Adam wore, we wear, Each fimpler generation blooms more fair, Till all that's artificial fhall expire. Vain puppy boy ! think'ft thou yon' eflenc'd cloud, Rais'd by thy puff, can vie wirh Nature's hue ? To-morrow fee the variegated crowd With ringlets fhining like the morning dew. Enough for me: with joy I fee The different dooms our fates afllgn: Be thine to love thy trade and ftarve ; To wear what Heaven beftow'd be mine." He faid, and headlong from the trap-ftairs' height, Quick through the frozen ftreet he ran in- fhabby plight. THE MILITARY TAYLOR. [From the Lady's Monthly Mufeum.] MR. EDITOR, A S you profefs to be the friend and patron of our - fex exclufively, I am encouraged to ftate my awkward fituation, arifing from an abufe of that moft laudable principle which has fo nobly Simulated the . other fex to unite in arms for the defence of their country. As this evil is become very general, and is caufed by perfons r...« less