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FOR T. CADELL, JUNIOR, AND W. DAVIES,

STRAND, LONDON.

1800.

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NUMBER XXII.

Ελκ, ταλαν, παρα μήτρος, ὃν εκ έτι μαζον αμελξεις

Ελκυσον ὑςατιόν ναμα καταφθιμένης. Ηδη γαρ ξιφέεσσι λιποπνοος' αλλά τα μέρος Φιλτρα και ειν αϊδη παιδοκομειν έμαθον.

Anthol. lib. iii.

Suck, little wretch, whilst yet thy mother lives,
Suck the last drop her fainting bosom gives;
She dies, her tenderness out-lasts her breath,
And her fond love is provident in death.

WEBB.

THE exquisite and pathetic little picture of maternal tenderness exhibited in the motto of this sketch, is a lively proof of that intensity of feeling which binds our race in gentleness together. The same sweet sensations that glow through the closer ties of society, which pant in the bosom of the husband and the VOL. II.

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