Let them for their country bleed! What was Sidney's, Raleigh's meed ? Man's not worth a moment's pain; Base, ungrateful, fickle, vain. 7 Then let me, sequester'd fair, To your sybil grot repair; On yon hanging cliff it stands, Scoop'd by nature's plastic hands, Bosom'd in the gloomy shad Of cypress not with age decayed; Where the owl still hooting sits, Where the bat incessant flits, There in loftier strains I'll sing Whence the changing seasons spring ; Tell how storms deform the skies, Whence the waves subside and rise, Trace the comet's blazing tail, Weigh the planets in a scale; Bend, great God, before thy shrine; The bournless macrocosm's thine. Since in each scheme of life I've fail'd, And disappointment seems entail'd; Since all on earth I valu'd most, My guide, my stay, my friend is lost; O Solitude, now give me rest, And hush the tempest in my breast. O gently deign to guide my feet To your hermit-trodden seat; Where I may live at last my own, Where I at last may die unknown. I spoke she turn'd her magic ray; And thus she said, or seem'd to say; 9 Youth, you're mistaken, if you think to find In shades, a med'cine for a troubled mind: Wan grief will haunt you wheresoe'er you go Sigh in the breeze, and in the streamlet flow. There pale inaction pines his life away; And satiate mourns the quick return of day: There, naked frenzy laughing wild with pain, Or bares the blade, or plunges in the main: There superstition broods o'er all her fears, And yells of demons in the zephyr hears. But if a hermit you're resolv'd to dwell, And bid to social life a last farewell; 'Tis impious 10 God never made an independent man; in 12 Nor study only, practice what you know; 18 Though man's ungrateful, or though fortune frown; Nor yet unrecompens❜d are virtue's pains; Whom Heaven approves of most, must feel her rod. * One of the accusers of Socraten. GRAINGER FINIS PART I PIECES IN PROSE. Sect. CHAPTER I. Select Sentences and Paragraphs, CHAPTER II.-Narrative Pieces. 1. No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy, 7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom, 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time, 13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty, 14. Moderation in our wishes recommended, 15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, source of consolation, 62 1. Happiness is founded in rectitude of conduct, 2. Virtue man's highest interest, 3. The injustice of an uncharitable spirit, 4. The misfortunes of men mostly chargeable on themselves, 1. Trial and execution of the earl of Strafford, 92 8. Prosperity is redoubled to a good man, 9. On the beauties of the Psalms, 10. Character of Alfred, king of England, 11. Character of Queen Elizabeth, 12. On the slavery of vice, 5. Exalted society and the renewal of virtuous connexions, &c. 6. The clemency and amiable character of the patriarch Joseph, 2. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring protection, 3. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agrippa, 4. Lord Mansfield's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the bill S. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death of an amiable 130 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered, 15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied 16. The pleasure resulting from a proper use of our faculties, 24. The speech of Fabricius, to king Pyrrhus, who attempted to brike |