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The peripatetic

or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society; In a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus; Supposed to be written by himself [by John Thelwall]

Thelwall, John (1764-1834)

[epigraph]

[I].

[VOL. I]

II.

VOL. II.

[Eternal curses wait his Crime,—]

[“Come, black Despair! pervade my gloomy mind!]

[Victorious weapon in the fields of Fame!]

[Enchanting maid! whose voice and air]

PHILAUTIACCHA;

[O giant fiend! whose haggard eye]

[Let raging tyrants, with malignant pride]

[Sepulchre of a parent dear!]

[Ah! witness thou, o'er whose untimely bier]

[And I who frequent, from my infant years]

ODE to the CLIFFS, at SANDGATE.

[O! how sweet, at the hour when, deep-blushing, appears]

III.

VOL. III.

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Me verò primùm dulces ante omnia Musæ,
Quarum sacra fero ingenti perculsus amore,
Accipiant. ------
Virgil.