Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. 360 God loves from Whole to Parts: But human fou 365 Muft rife from Individual to the Whole, 370 Earth fimiles around, with boundlefs bounty bleft, And Heav'n beholds its image in his breaft. Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along! Oh mafter of the poet, and the fong! VARIATIONS. VER. 373. Come then, my friend, &c.] In the MS. thus, And now transported o'er so vast a Plain, While the wing'd courfer flies with all her rein, NOTES. VER. 373. Come then, my friend! &c.] This noble Apoftrophe, by which the Poet concludes the Effay in an ad And while the Mufe now ftoops, or now ascends, 375 To man's low paffions, or their glorious ends. NOTES: drefs to his friend, will furnish a Critic with example of Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along, And while the Muse now ftoops, or now afcends, 2. The fecond, that pathetic Enthufiafm, which, at the fame time, melts and inflames : Teach me, like thee, in various nature wife, 3. A certain elegant Formation and Ordonance of Figures: Oh! while along the ftream of Time thy name a When statesmen, heroes, kings, in duft repofe, · πέντε πηγαί τινές εἰσι τῆς ὑψηγορίας. 1. Πρῶτον μὲ καὶ κράτισον τὸ περὶ τὰς νοήσεις ἀδρεπήβολον. 2. Δεύτερον δὲ τὸ σφοδρὸν καὶ ἐνθεσιαςικόν πάθοι. 3. Ποιὰ τῶν οχημάτων πλάσις, 4. Ἡ γγυναῖα φράσις. 5. Πέμπλη 3 μεγέθες αἰτία, καὶ συγκλείεσα τὰ περὶ ἑαυτῆς ἅπανία, ἡ ἐν αξιώματι καὶ άρση σύνθεσης, Teach me, like thee; in various nature wife, 380 Oh! while along the ftream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame; Say, fhall my little bark attendant fail, 385 Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? NOTES. Shall then this verfe to future age pretend 5. And, fifthly, which includes in itself all the reft, a Weight and Dignity in the compofition : Shew'd erring pride whatever is, is RIGHT That REASON, PASSION, anfwer one great AIM; For Wit's falfe mirror held up Nature's light; VARIATIONS. VER. 397. That virtue only, &c.] In the MS, thus, NOTES. VER. 394. Shew'd erring Pride, Whatever is, is Right ;] The poet's addrefs to his friend, which concludeth this epiftle fo nobly, and endeth with a recapitulation of the general argument, affords me the following obfervation, with which I fhall conclude thefe remarks. There is one great beauty that fhines through the whole Efay: The Poet, whether he speaks of Man as an Individual, a Member of Society, or the Subject of Happiness, never miffeth an opportunity, while he is explaining his ftate under any of these capacities, to illuftrate it in the most artful manner by the inforcement of his grand Principle: THAT EVERY THING TENDETH TO THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE; from whence his fyftem receives the reciprocal advantage of having that grand Theorem realized by facts, and his facts juftified on a principle of Right or Nature. |