THE ENQUIRY. [The following amatory Lines having been found a mong the MSS. of Gray, but bearing no title, I have ventured, for the sake of uniformity in this Volume, to prefix the above. The Lines themselves will be found in a Note in the second volume of Warton's Edition of Pope's Works, lately pub- . lished.] WITH Beauty, with Pleasure surrounded, to lan guish To weep without knowing the cause of my anguish; To start from short slumbers, and wish for the morn ingTo close my dull eyes when I see it returning; Sighs sudden and frequent, looks ever dejected Words that steal from my tongue, by no meaning con nected! Ah, say, fellow-swains, how these symptoms befel me? They smile, but reply not-Sure DELIA CAN Tell ME! me> SONG. [This was written, at the request of Miss Speed, to an old Air of Geminiani: the thought from the French.) THYRSIS, when he left me, swore In the Spring he would return- And the bud that decks the thorn! Why such unavailing haste ? Gentle gales and sky serene Prave not always Winter past. Cease, my doubts, my fears to move, Spare the honour of my love. THE ENQUIRY. [The following amatory Lines having been found among the MSS. of Gray, but bearing no title, I have ventured, for the sake of uniformity in this Volume, to prefix the above. The Lines themselves will be found in a Note in the second volume of Warton's Edition of Pope's Works, lately published.] WITH Beauty, with Pleasure surrounded, to lan guish To weep without knowing the cause of my anguish; To start from short slumbers, and wish for the morn ingTo close my dull eyes when I see it returning; Sighs sudden and frequent, looks ever dejectedWords that steal from my tongue, by no meaning con nected! Ah, say, fellow-swains, how these symptoms befel me? They smile, but reply not-Sure DELIA CAN TELL ME! TOPHET: AN EPIGRAM. [Mr. Etough [53], of Cambridge University, was a person as remarkable for the eccentricities of his character, as for his personal appearance. A Mr. Tyson, of Bene't College, made an etching of his head, and presented it to Mr. Gray, who wrote under it the following lines:] THUS Tophet look'd; so grinn'd the brawling fiend, [53] Some information respecting this gentleman (who was Rector of Therfield, Herts, and of Colmworth, Bedfordshire) will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. LVI. p. 25. 281. IMPROMPTU, SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, IN 1766, OF THE SEAT AND RUINS OF A DECEASED NOBLEMAN, AT KINGSGATE, KENT. OLD, and abandon’d by each venal friend, Here H d form’d the pious resolution To smuggle a few years, and strive to mend A broken character and constitution. On this congenial spot he fix'd his choice; Earl Goodwin trembled for his neighb'ring sand : Here sea-gulls scream, and cormorants rejoice, And mariners, though shipwreck’d, dread to land. Here reign the blust'ring North and blighting East, No tree is heard to whisper, bird to sing; Yet Nature could not furnish out the feast, Art he invokes new horrors still to bring. Here mould'ring fanes and battlements arise, Turrets and arches nodding to their fall, |