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 shade Of cypress not with age decayed; Where the owl stiil 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. 8 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; Youth, you're mistaken, if you think to find In shades, a med'cine for a troubled mind : Wan grief will haunt you whereso'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 hear. 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; Suns shine, birds sing, flowers bloom, and water flows; 11 Though nature's works the ruling mind declare, The God, (whate'er misanthrophy may say,) Shines, beams in man with most unclouded ray. What boots through space's farthest bourns to roam? 12 Nor study only, practice what you know; 13 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 Socrates. GRAINGER. FINIS. PART L PIECES IN PROSE. Sect. CHAPTER I. Select Sentences and Paragraphs, 1. No rank or possessions can make the guilty mind happy, 2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue," 3. Haman; or the misery of pride, 5. A suspicious temper the source of misery to its possessor, 7. Diffidence of our abilities a mark of wisdom, 8. On the importance of order in the distribution of our time, 9. The dignity of virtue amidst corrupt examples, 10. The mortifications of vice greater than those of virtue, 12. Rank and riches afford no ground for envy, 13. Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty, 15. Omniscience and omnipresence of the Deity, source of conso.ation, 62 CHAPTER IV.-Argumentative Pieces. 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, 6. On the immortality of the soul, CHAPTER V.-Descriptive Pieces. 2. The cataract of Niagara, in Canada, North America, 8. Prosperity is redoubled to a good man, 9. On the beauties of the Psalms 10. Character of Alfred, king of England, 1. Trial and execution of the earl of Strafford, 4. The close of life, 5. Exalted society and the renewal of virtuous connexions, &c. . CHAPTER VII.-Dialogues. 4. Speech of Adherbal to the Roman Senate, imploring protection, 114 4. The Apostle Paul's noble defence before Festus and Agrippa,. 117 Lord Mansfeld's speech in the House of Lords, 1770, on the bill . Earthquake at Calabria, in the year 1538, 1. Letter from Pliny to Geminius, 3. Letter from Pliny to Marcellinus, on the death of an amiable 145 9. Reflections occasioned by a review of the blessings pronounced by Christ, on his disciples, in his sermon on the mount, 10. Schemes of life often illusory,. 13. The influence of devotion on the happiness of life,. 14. The planetary and terrestrial worlds comparatively considered, 147 15. On the power of custom, and the uses to which it may be applied, 149 16. The pleasure resulting from a proper use of our faculties, . *7. Description of Candour,. 150 151 21. Trust in the care of Providence recommended, 22. Piety and gratitude enliven prosperity, - 23. Virtue, deeply rooted, is not subject to the influence of fortune, 24. The speech of Fabricius, to king Pyrrhus, who attempted to bribe him to his interests, by the offer of a large sum of money, 25. Character of James I. king of England, CHAPTER I. Select Sentences and Paragraphs. 1. Short and easy sentences, 2. Verses in which the lines are of different length, 171 3. Verses containing exclamations, interrogations, parentheses, &c 174 4. Verses in various forms, |