ADVENTURER. VOLUME THE SECOND. -Tentanda via eft; qua me quoque poffim On vent'rous wing in queft of praise I go, VIRG. A NEW EDITION. KAN TONS LONDON M, DC C, LX X 1 √1 36 Directions to the ladies, for their conduct to a husband. 37 Happinefs properly estimated by its degree in whatever fubject. Remarkable inftances of cruelty to brutes. Elegy on a blackbird. 40 The existence of evil and unequal diftributi- on of happiness and mifery, neceffary to exercife virtue and animate hope. 41 Sequel to the ftory of MIS ARGYRUS, QUEI 44 Turpitude and infamy of betraying private converfation. S 47 A parallel between ALEXANDER and a high- 49 Parallel between antient and modern learning 97 SI Tranflation of a manuscript of LONGINUS lately difcovered, containing a comparison 58 Prefumption of modern criticifm cenfured. Antient poetry neceffarily obscure. Ex-M 59 Poets not univerfally or neceffarily poor. 174 60 SATAN's letter in behalf of religion and virtue 181 63 Paucity of original writers. Passages which POPE has borrowed, pointed out. ADVENTURER. NUMB. 36. SATURDAY, March 10. 1753 Afpera Nigris aquora ventis Qui nunc te fruitur credulus a urea, Fallacis! How often fall th' unpractis'd youth How foon behold with wond'ring eyes He fondly hopes that hall prove you Thus ever vacant to his love, Nor heeds the faithlefs wind. T : HOR. FRANCIS. HE Ladies, to whom I lately addreffed fome thoughts upon the choice of a husband, I fhall to-day confider as married and as I am, very far from thinking that they may now fit down in negligent fecurity, and remit at once their affiduity and circumfpection, I fhall warn them of fome opinions of which this conduct is the confequence, detect fomé errors by which the general intention of VOL. II. A |