The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions The True Character of John Bull, Nic. Frog, and Hocus Of the Various Success of the Lawsuit. How John Bull was so mightily pleased with his Success that he was going to leave off his Trade and turn Lawyer The Character of John Bull's Mother The Character of John Bull's Sister A Dialogue on the Unreality of Matter POEMS OF PRIOR. [Matthew PriOR, English poet and diplomatist, was born at WimborneMinster, Dorsetshire, England, July 21, 1664; died at Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, September 18, 1721. He was graduated at St. John's College in 1686; became intimate with Charles Montagu, and with him wrote "The Hind and the Panther, transvers'd to the Story of the Country Mouse and the City Mouse " (1687), a parody on Dryden, who was deeply annoyed. Prior was secretary to Lord Dursley, ambassador to the Hague, 1690-1697; secretary to the Earl of Portland's embassy to France in 1698. He was afterward a member of Parlia ment and an ambassador to Paris, and in 1715 was impeached and imprisoned two years in his own house. His poems are not great, but are graceful, polished, and witty. A collection entitled "Carmen Seculare" was published in 1700, and "Alma, or the Progress of the Mind" in 1715.] THE LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS. CELIA and I the other day Walked o'er the sand hills to the sea: The setting sun adorned the coast, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. But, oh the change! the winds grow high; She turns her head, and wings her flight; 13 |