...last and best." MILTON. «« Auld Nature swears the lovely dears tier noblest work she classes, О ! Her prentice ban' she tried on man : And then she made the lasses О !" BURNS. /"\H, woman ! on thy faithful breast ^•^ The weary wand'rer seeks repose ; And, in thy...

...bard, when, in alluding to the manner in which nature had finished this fair creation, he says — " Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O ! " I am sure every man in this assembly will join me in an enthusiastic bumper to the health of the...

...«?Btnlnir<jI.. BY DICK PEPPEHMIXT. Walk II. AuM Nature swears, the lovely dean Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man. And then she made the lasses, O. TWAS two o'clock, the labourers left their toil With hungry bellies, and with hastening feet, And I,...

...of his songs, " Green grow the rashes, O," has expressed the self-same compliment to the fair I— " Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O ! " FROM THE ITALIAN OF GUARINI. Tho' chang'd to pens were all the trees ; To paper, heav'n ; to ink,...

...lovely dears, Her noblest work she classes, O ; « WorldlrI Topsy-turvy. * Convenient. m Sober, prudent. Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O 1 Green grow, &c. BONNIE ANN. Burns composed this song out of compliment to MIss Ann Ma* tt-rtmi. daughter...

...consists solely of poisons, our world is nothing but refuse. When our poet declared of Nature that — Her prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, every one admired the beauty of the thought. But who ever expected to be told, by way of proving that...

...those that surround it, let them be thy stay, And firm be thy hopes in the bright coming-day. • " Her prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O." When this low world of trials find tears will be o'er, The kind be rewarded, and grief be no more ;...

...in the supreme beauty of woman ; nevertheless, in heretical contrast to the chivalrous lines — " Her 'prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the laaeee 0,'' stand* the grave authority of Winckelmann, and before it that of Aristotle : " In regard...

...yields ; Cly. Basely, with guile unworthy Atreus' son." * Men do not often reciprocate this pure love. " Her prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses o'," is a fancy, not a feeling, in their more frequently passionate and strong than noble or tender natures....

...century and a half later,• Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears tier noblest work she classes, O : Her prentice ban' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses 0." VI. ON THE FAITHLESSNESS AND VENALITY OF THE TIMES. Unhappy is the man lu whose breast is confin'd...