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Fool, dost thou think he'd revel on the store,
Absolve the care of Heav'n, nor ask for more?

Though waters flow'd, flow'rs bloom'd, and Phœbus shone,
He'd sigh, he'd murmur, that he was alone.
For know, the Maker on the human breast,
A sense of kindred, country, man, impress'd.
11 Though nature's works the ruling mind declare,
And well deserve inquiry's serious care,
The God, (whate'er misanthropy may say,)
Shines, beams in man with most unclouded ray.
What boots it thee to fly from pole to pole?
Hang o'er the sun, and with the planets roll?
What boots through space's furthest bourns to roam?
If thou, O man, a stranger art at home.

Then know thyself, the human mind survey;
The use, the pleasure, will the toil repay.
12 Nor study only, practice what you know;
Your life, your knowledge, to mankind you owe.
With Plato's olive wreath the bays entwine;
Those who in study, should in practice shine.
Say, does the learned lord of Hagley's shade,
Charm man so much by mossy fountains laid,
As when arous'd, he stems corruption's course,
And shakes the senate with a Tully's force?
When freedom gasp'd beneath a Caesar's feet,
Then public virtue might to shades retreat:
But where she breathes, the least may useful be,
And freedom, Britain, still belongs to thee.

13 Though man's ungrateful, or though fortune frown;
Is the reward of worth a song, or crown?
Nor yet unrecompens'd are virtue's pains;
Good Allen lives, and bounteous Brunswick reigns.
On each condition disappointments wait,
Enter the hut, and force the guarded gate.
Nor dare repine, though early friendship bleed,
From love, the world, and all its cares, he's freed.
But know, adversity's the child of God:

Whom Heaven approves of most, must feel her rod.
When smooth old Ocean, and each storm's asleep,
Then ignorance may plough the watery deep;
But when the demons of the tempest rave,
Skill must conduct the vessel through the wave.
14 Sidney, what good man envies not thy blow?
Who would not wish Anytus*-for a foe?
Intrepid virtue triumphs over fate;

* One of the accusors of Socrates.

The good can never be unfortunate.
And be this maxim graven in thy mind;
The height of virtue is, to serve mankind.
But when old age has silver'd o'er thy head,
When memory fails, and all thy vigour's fled,
Then mayst thou seek the stillness of retreat,
Then hear aloof the human tempest beat;
Then will I greet thee to my woodland cave,
Allay the pangs of age, and smooth thy grave.

CONTENTS.

PART I.

PIECES IN PROSE.

CHAPTER I.

Select Sentences and Paragraphs.

CHAPTER II.

Narrative Pieces.

GRAINGER.

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CHAPTER IV.

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Sect. 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct

2. Virtue and piety man's highest interest
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8. Excellence of the Holy Scriptures

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PART II.

PIECES IN POETRY.

CHAPTER I.

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Sect. 1. Short and easy sentences,

2. Verses in which the lines are of different length,

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3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, and parentheses, 175

4. Verses in various forms,

5. Verses in which sound corresponds to signification,
6. Paragraphs of greater length,

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CHAPTER IV.

Descriptive Pieces.

Sect. 1. The morning in summer,

2. Rural sounds, as well as rural sights, delightful,

3. The rose,

4. Care of birds for their young,

5. Liberty and slavery contrasted,

6. Charity. A paraphrase on the 18th chapter of the
First Epistle to the Corinthians,

7. Picture of a good man,

8. The pleasures of retirement,

9. The pleasure and benefit of an improved and well-
directed imagination,

Sect. 1. The hermit,

2. The beggar's petition,

3. Unhappy close of life,.

4. Elegy to pity,

CHAPTER V.

Pathetic Pieces.

5. Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk,
during his solitary abode in the Island of Juan
Fernandez,

6. Gratitude,

7. A man perishing in the snow; from whence reflec-
tions are raised on the miseries of life,

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