Ebeling, Christoph Daniel: Vermischte Aufsätze in englischer Prose: hauptsächlich zum Besten derer welche diese Sprache in Rücksicht auf bürgerliche Geschäfte lernen wollen (Hamburg, 1781) [VD18 14320592]

OF THE DEAD,

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he will tell yon some truths which you mult necehanly hear,
when you come before Rhadamanthus. He aiked you what
you could do beiides Eating and Dancing'.

D u E L n s T<

i lung very agreeably.

SAVAGE.

Let me hear you ling your DcnH; .Skw^, or the
T challenge you to hng. — Come, begin. — The Fellow is
mute. — Mercury, this is a Tzhr. — He has told us nothing
but Lzsr. Let me pull out his tongue.

DUELLIST.

77;v— aud.alas! I dare not relent it. What
an indelible Disgrace to the family os the Pushvvtlls! This
indeed is

M E R c u R Y.

Here, Charon, take these twoSavages to your Care. How
sar the Barbarism of the Mohawk will excuse.his horrid Acbs,
I leave Minos to judge. But what can be said sor the other,
for the Engliihman? The Cuidom of Duelling? A bad
Excuse at the belt! but here it cannot avail. The Spirit
that urged him to draw his Sword againit his Friend is not
that of it is the Spirit of the Furies, and to them
he malt go.

SAVAGE.

If he is to he punilhed for his wickedness turn him over
to me. I perfecbly underiband the Art os tormenting.
Sirrah, I begin my Work with this Mz yaar ßrwA.

D u E L L i s T.

Oh my Honour, my Honour, to what Infamy art thou
&.Hcnt

DIALOGUE III

ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
CHARLES the Twelfth, Ring of Sweden.
ALEXANDER.
y ieems in great Wrath! Who has oUended


CHARLES.

The Offence is to you as much as me. Here is a Fellow
admitted into Elyhum, who has ahronted us both : anEnglish
Poet, one Pope. He has called us

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ÄLEXAN-