on going into the Houfe of Commons Twang, Twang; or, Two Strings to my Bow Epigram on hearing a Difcourfe from the Words, On the late Bill for inflicting capital Punishment on the Counterfeiters of the Silver Notes-Bank Dollars On the late happy Reftoration of a L of the Bonaparte's Acceptance of the Crown The Coronation Ceremony (by Anticipation)-of his Imperial Majefty Napoleon the First ib 1300 395 On the Death of Mr. Hare, by the fame Verfes occafioned by the above To Mifs *****, on her happy Deliverance from the too often fatal Effects of a Spark Birth, Parentage, and Education, laft dying Speech and THE SPIRIT PUBLIC OF THE JOURNAL S. ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE. (WRITTEN IN 1803.) [From the General Evening Poft.] REVOLVING in my mind lately the probable confequences of the prefent war, and the strange mixture of vanity, duplicity, perfidy, and cruelty, the complication of paffions and vices that diftinguish a certain confpicuous character, I began to regale my defponding imagination by reprefenting him to myfelf in an hiftorical point of view, confidering him as a player, exhibiting a variety of characters, and applying to him the words of Young: The dreadful masquerader, thus equipt, Out fallies on adventures, In the middle of this reverie I fell asleep, and was foon tranfported in a dream, on the wings of fancy, to the days of the celebrated Stratford Jubilee. Methought I was carried by an invifible power to the doors of a vaft amphitheatre, filled by the inhabitants of different nations in all their variety of dreffes. By a large printed bill in red letters, I found that Shakspeare's Jubilee was to be preceded by a fort of pantomimical entertainment, intermixed with fome VOL. VIII. B of |