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TALE OF THE TIMES.

VOL. II.

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TALE OF THE TIMES.

BY

THE AUTHOR OF A GOSSIP'S STORY.

DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO MRS. CARTER.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

Nor fhall the pile of hope God's mercy rear'd,
By vain philofophy be e'er destroy'd ;

Eternity, by all or wifh'd or fear'd,

Shall be by all or fuffer'd or enjoy'd.

MASON'S Elegy on the Death of Lady Coventry.

THE THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY A. STRAHAN, PRINTERS-STREET,

FOR T. N. LONGMAN, AND O. REES, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

TALE OF THE TIMES.

CHAP. XVIII.

O, how canft thou renounce the boundless store
Of charms which Nature to her vot'ry yields !
The warbling woodland, the refounding fhore,
The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields ;
All that the genial ray of morning gilds,
And all that echoes to the fong of even,
All that the mountain's fheltering bofom shields,
And all the dread magnificence of heaven,
O, how can't thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven!
BEATTIE.

THE intereft which the appearance and behaviour of Mr. Powerfcourt had excited in Lord Monteith's mind had more permanence than the fudden emotions to which his difpofition was fubject commonly poffeffed. His evanefcent im

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