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Title:  Poems: by the late George-Monck Berkeley, Esq. ... With a preface by the editor, consisting of some anecdotes of Mr. Monck Berkeley and several of his friends.
Author: Berkeley, George Monck, 1763-1793.
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larger, which were decorated with his Father's beautiful dark eye-brows and eye-lashesMr. Monck Berkeley's eyelashes were so remarkably long, as often, when he was a lad, to entangle and distress him when reading; a decoration of face to which he was indebted, as well as his Brother, to their Mother, who constantly cut them with a fine pair of scissors twice every moon: It is an infallible method of rendering them long and thick. With Mr. Berkeley it was attended with some little difficulty, from the extreme volatility of his motions. Dr. Berkeley and all her intimate friends thought her the most daring of spirits to venture to do it before Mr. Berkeley could listen to reason. It was then done when he was in a sound sleep. Afterwards with the following exhortation:—"Now, child, stand as still as a statue; for, if you move your finger, or your eye, the least in the world, in go the scissors, and out goes your eye.""Well; but then I shall have one left."—"No, you will not; for, when one is gone, the other generally goes soon after it; and you will never get eyes again until your body rises out of the grave at the day of judgement, and you will be always, all your life, in the dark."—Much as Mr. Berkeley loved in childhood to be in motion, this eloquent oration had as much weight as if it had been uttered by a Burke..0