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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1787 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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the unavoidable inconvenien-cies of marriage, to fweeten thepangs of childbirth, to recommendthe fatigues of domeftic concerns,of the care and education of chil-dren, of the fettlement of a family ;and alfo to be the bafis and the ce-ment of thofe numberlefs tenderfympathies, mutual endearments andinterchanges of love between themarried parties themfelves, whichmake up not the morality only, butcvtn the chief happinefs of tonju-gal life. The tender and paffion- ate Milton had fo high an ideaof this happinefs, that he re-prefents the great enemy of man-kind, turning afide from the viewof the reciprocal careiTes of ourfirft parents, as unable to endure thepain of his malicious refentment atfuch fuperior delicacy of enjoyment Afide the devil turnd For envy, yet with jealous leer malign,Eyd them afkance. What exquifite force and beautyare there in this image ! The fond-eft lovers of antiquity may be chal-lenged to produce its parallel in themoft approved writers of any age orcountry. THE
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, L 245 1THE LUMBIAN PARNASSIAD. fed to Genekal WASHINGTON, While lines of Heffian captive flaves an-rycar 17/7, a/icr the battles of Tren- nounce Princeton. Thy triumph, and their haughty lords dif- grace. E mufe aifrighted at the claQi of —Not good ^neas who his father bore, a:-,n ; And all his houfhold gods from ruindT,\ (lire calamities of war, Troy, — iivens peaceful fliades has long Was more the founder of the Latian realm, .■ix faithful votary to mourn, Than thou the bafis of this mighty fabric, ■rf«--. ..v. nun-:IJi.-rs,ocr her nai Ive land, Now rifing to my view, of arms, of arts ; k native land, whom Georges hoftile The feat of glory in the weftern world. ! •—For thee awaits the patriots fhinino;chd with blood, and fpread de- crown; .: roando ^^^ laurel blooms in bleft elyfian groves, tnou, thy coLintrys better genius That twind by angel hands Ihall grace thyome, brow, •oic Waibington and aid myfong ! A vacant feat among the ancient heroes, lilc I the wonders

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