Astronomical Dialogues.
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here; we mnst defer this till Night:
When with the Stars we'll be familiar,
As e'er was the Almanack Well-willer.
As e'er was the Almanack Well-willer.
And in the mean time, I'll con my Lesson in the Book, that my Ignorance may not give you too much Trouble. The Tea waits us; will you please to move, Sir?
THE Evening of this Day proved one of the finest I ever saw, and the Night succeeding it was so very clear and bright, that the Moon being then not above our Horizon, there appeared many more Stars than usual. As we were walking to a Summer-House, placed on a Mount in the Garden, where the Lady had order'd the Celestial Globe to be set out, several Poetical Descriptions of such a Night occurred to our Thoughts, and were recited. The Lady closed all with that famous one of Mr. Dryden,
All things are husht, as Nature's self lay dead,
The Mountains seem to nod their drowzy Head,
The little Birds in Dreams their Songs repeat,
And sleeping Flowers beneath the Night-Dew sweat:
Even Lust and Envy sleep,———
The Mountains seem to nod their drowzy Head,
The little Birds in Dreams their Songs repeat,
And sleeping Flowers beneath the Night-Dew sweat:
Even Lust and Envy sleep,———
I was going to say ———But Love denies, &c.when
