THE Lady's Magazine; OR, Entertaining Companion for the FAIR SEX, appropriated folely to their Use and Amusement. This Number is embellished with the following Copper-Plates, viz. 1. A new Pattern of Borders for Gown or Petticoat.-2. The Ruins of Stanton Court in Oxfordshire.-3. Vanity repelled by Reflection; and 4. Amanda. A Song, Mufic by Dr. Howard. LONDON, Printed for G. G. and J. Robinfon, No. 25, Paternofter Row, where Favours from Correfpondents will be received. To our CORRESPONDENTS. Fidelia's Effay is received, and intended for infertion. X. Y.'s Maxims fhall have a place. The Poem entitled the Seasons is much too long: the author may have it returned, if he wishes it. Received, The Soliloquy of a conftant lover.-Hymen to Hope.Sonnets by R. F. The Doctor and Apothecary, a Fable, by G. CLines to Mifs F.-Verfes on a Young Lady's Birth-day. The triumph of Loyalty, a Song by E. B. Enigmas and Epigrams by Juvenis. VANITY repelled by REFLEC | origin; and its power and value are TION. A Fragment. (Embellished with an elegant graving.) "HOW inftantaneously recognised by the object it irradiates. Art, and eveni wisdom, are left far behind by the rapid activity of beauty, which atEn-tains the end: before they can concert the means. Its empire extends over the whole world, its fove TOW favourable is nature of- reign fway is limited to no climate,ten to her children! What it needs the aid of no languagebeauty, what grace, frequently does and fubjugates alike youth and age, the bestow on the gentler fex! How folly and understanding. Stupidity, complete the fymmetry of their fea- which approaches nearest to a detures! how delicate, how lively the fence againft its power, is frequenttints of their complexion! how per- ly vanquished; and wisdom itself, fect the general affemblage of their when it wifhes to efcape its influence, charms! It were infenfibility in love- can only avoid it, as Ulyffes efcaped' ly females, not to exult in the bounty the Sirens, by preventing the action of nature; and, in the other fex, it of the fenfes. Refifted it cannot be were ftupidity not to admire. Envy to be able to fly from it, is the only may ftigmatife by the name of vani- triumph that can be hoped by either ty this consciousnefs of fuperior en fortitude or prudence. Like the dowment, this triumph in the at- fun in fplendour,-like the fun in tractive gift of beauty, which nei- genial influence, it is the fublimes ther art nor labour can procure, vivific principle which animates the but which heaven alone must be world L. Shall I not then (exclaimed ftow; but still will envy itfelf be com- Miranda) glory with honeft exultä! pelled to recognife its power, and tion that nature has bestowed on unwillingly adore what it calunini-me, even me alfo, fome portion of oully depreciates. Beauty fubjects this celeftial quality,-this bright and the ftrong, fubdues the fierce, and incommunicable gift of heaven?i humbles the proud. Other qualities require time to develope their worth; but beauty acts like the fplendour of heaven, as becomes its celeftial Such was the foliloquy of the lovely Miranda, while the viewed her exquifitely beauteous form in a faithful mirror : Cc2 1 For |