THE LADY’s MUSEUM.
The TRIFLER. [NUMBER XI.]
To the AUTHOR of the TRIFLER. MADAM, MY brother, who is a great scholar, and writes A. M. after his name, desires me to acquaint […]
ISSUE 11
THE LADY’s MUSEUM.
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN SOCRATES and ARISTARCHUS.
SOCRATES one day observing Aristarchus to look thoughtful and melancholy, said to him, ‘My friend, something seems to lie heavy upon your mind, you should share […]
THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT and SOPHIA CONCLUDED
SOPHIA was not deceived when she imagined she had seen Sir Charles, it was really he who had rode by her window, and it was […]
THE LIFE OF Sir ANTHONY VANDYCK CONCLUDED.
HE drew the marquis Giulio Brignole, a famous poet, on horse-back: he drew also the picture of the marchioness his wife, in which he seemed […]
TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION of DAUGHTERS CONCLUDED.
The Vanity of Beauty and of Dress. THERE is nothing we ought so much to guard against as vanity in young ladies. They come into […]
A POETICAL EPISTLE From BUSY, the Lap-dog, in London, to SNOWBALL, the Buck-hound, in Windsor Forest.
June 27, 1760. IF we, like men, could envy and malign, At Nature’s, or at Fortune’s gifts repine; When great be insolent, when little mean, […]
To ISMENE playing on a Lute.
WHEN fair Ismene to the grove retires, And joins her warbling accents to the lyre’s; How sweet th’ enchanting sounds! the melting strains, With pleasing […]
PHILOSOPHY FOR THE LADIES CONCLUDED.
Some reflections and deductions drawn from the works of Nature in general. AS we are now on the point of concluding the present design of […]
THE LADY’S GEOGRAPHY.
DESCRIPTION of the Island of CEYLON. CONCLUDED. THERE are in this island a very particular kind of blackish leaches, which lurk under the grass, and […]