...(exes, from fixteen to twenty one ; this was the critical age of innocence and delufion : " When fair opinion gilds with varying rays, " Thofe painted clouds which beautify our days," The ingenuous youth then views the charms of his miftrefs with all that ridiculous heart-felt love and...

...objects arourid it, a colouring which cxifts only in itfelf; and where, as the Poet exprefles it, i " Opinion gilds with varying rays, " Thofe painted clouds which beautify our days." It may be queftioned, if thefe reprefentations of human life be ufeful or juft. That the cafual aflbciations...