The Miniature, a Periodical Paper

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 5 Miniature, NUMB. XIX; MONDAY, Oftober 29, 1804. ' Si raro scribes, ut toto non quater anno Membranam poscas, scriptorum quaque retexens Iratus tibi, quod iflni somnique bcnigims Nil dignum sermone canas: quidfiet? Die aliquid dignum promissis, - Horace, Sat. 2, 3t. If hardly once a quarter of a year, So idle grown, a single sheet appear; If angry with yourself that sleep and wine Enjoy your hours, while anxious to refine Your labours past, no more your voice you raise To ought that may deserve the public praise; What shall be done? Sing something worthy of the promised strain.? Frakcis. 1F my vanity and self-importance have not deceived me, many and various have been the eonjeftures concerning my sudden and unex-?.pected disappearance. The beginning of each week, since the cessation of my labours, has furnished an infinite number of surmises, which at any other time might have proved conducive to my amusement; but under existing circumstances have been the source of a continued and increasing anxiety. But it would be an inconsiderable relief and consolation to me, if I could with reason flatter myself, that the public anxiety had borne the slightest proportion to my own. It was confidently asserted that after the example of many wiser and better men, poor Solomon Ghildrig had submitted to the will of the fates and breathed his last on Monday Sept. 24, and that his Manes had quietly descended to the regions of eternal dulness and oblivion. Among the numerous conjectures relative to the cause of his untimely dissolution; some have supposed that a severe paralytic affection, acr companied by a fatal lethargy had irrevocably closed the period of his life; and. that the strongest symptoms of the disorder undeniably existed, ...