Love has a dart, if Beauty fights,
And wings, if Beauty flies.
NEW-YORK: Printed by JOHN TIEBOUT, No. 358, Pearl-Street, for THOMAS BURLING, Jun. & Co. Subscriptions for this Magazine (at 6s. per quarter) are taken in at the Printing-Office, and at the Circulating Library of Mr. J. FELLOWS, No. 60, Wall-Street.
[Sources]
“The History of Mrs. Mordaunt” (pg. [228], 237, 244, 253, 261, 269).
The source of this serial has not been identified, but there is no reason to think it was written for the New-York Weekly.
Quotations:
“Gently the moon...” Opening stanza of “The Bard”, anon., 1784 in The Hibernian Magazine
“and sober evening had taken ‘her wonted station in the middle air.’” Thomson, “Seasons”, Summer
“All the lowly children of the vale.” James Grahame, British Georgics, October