Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CARD. The Poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from Heaven to Earth, from Earth to Heaven ; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the Poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name.—Mhakspkare. THOMAS MAN, Respectfully informs the Public, that he has the honor of enrolling on his subscription List, now, more than One Thousand names, some of the most respectable Gentlemen of this city and other places, as patrons; and takes this opportunity to express to them his unfeigned thanks for their politeness, liberality, and generous patronage—hoping at the same time, that their anticipations may be at least partially, if not wholly gratified—and that the application of the annexed quotation, may never, in justice, be applied to him as a Poet. " Monies parturiunt, nascitur ridiculus Mus." Among whom are the Ex-Governors, James Fenner and Lemuel H. Arnold; Hon. Elisha R. Potter; the Mayor and some of the Aldermen; the Attorney General and the Bar; the Medical Profession; the principal Merchants and Mechanics; and the most respectable Agriculturalists in the State. A NOCTURNAL SKETCH. The following specimen of that very curious invention, blank verse in rhyme, is taken from Hood's Comic Jinnunl. Even is come; and i'rorn the dark Park, hark, The signal of the setting sun—one gun ! And six is sounding from the chime, prime time To go and see the Drury-lane Dane slain—, Or hear Othello's jealous doubt spout out— Or Macbeth raving at that shade-made blade, Denying to his frantic touch much clutch— Or else to see Ducrow with wide stride ride Four horses, as no other man can span— Or, in the small Olympic Pit, sit split Laughing at Liston, while you q...