2952. DEATH-to whom welcome. 2953. LOVE and FRIENDSHIP-how prov'd. 4§. A true and faithful Love, inseparable, Knits but the closer for Calamity. 2954. BEAUTY GRIEF. 5§. Sorrow eats Beauty's bud. 2955. GRIEF endears itself on the Principle of ASSOCIATION. # 35. Grief fills the room up of departed Friends: Lies in their bed, and walks with us like them: Fills out their vacant Garments with their Form Puts on their pleasing Looks, repeats their Words; Remembers us of all their gracious Qualities; And hence with reason we are fond of Grief. 2956. ORDER external. 4. We do not keep the form of outward order When there is deep Disorder in the Mind. 2957. SHAME. [taste. 5§. Shame's Bitterness corrupts the World's sweet 2958. PRODIGIES-the Coinage of Superstition. 6. No natural exhalation in the Sky, 2959. DISCONTENT-popular. 7. An Enemy works much from Discontent, When Souls are full of new reviv'd Offence.. EURIP. in ALC. and Madame de STAEL in her admirable CORINNE. 2960. ENNUI. 8. Luxurious ease will be as sad as Night, Only for Wantonness. 2961. PHYSIOGNOMY. 9. Stern Looks sometimes dwell with a gentle 2962. COMPASSION. [Heart, 10. The presence of a Man who feels compassion Gives Life to it in others. 2963. Who feels for others scarce can injure them. 2964. STORY-TELLING-Hints concerning. 2. A Tale oft told Is at the last repeating troublesome; And most if urg'd at times unseasonable. 2965. FEAR and GUILT COMPANIONS. 3. Fear still attends upon the steps of Wrong. 2966. EDUCATION-the Cruelty of neglecting. Choak not Youth's Days with barbarous ignoNor to the dawn and spring of Life deny [rance; The rich advantage of good exercise. 2967. PRUDENCE-virtuous. Give not to the Time's Enemies pretence 2968. GRANDEUR-an aggravation of an unworthy Action. XI Foul play is doubly foul and doubly shame, When Greatness, which should check it, offers it. 2969. DANGER aggravated by shutting our eyes to it. 2§. On those who are afraid to hear the worst The worst, unheard, falls heaviest on their head. *So says the Apostle-" That I may cut off occasion from them that seek occasion," 2970. AFFLICTION-FORTITUDE. 3. E'en Fortitude itself meets with amaze The first tide of Affliction that sustain'd, It breathes aloft the flood:-and can give audience To any tongue, speak it of what it will. 2971. FEAR. [fear. 4. Their Fears are most who know not what they 2972. world-Good to meditate on it's Dangers and Delusions. bf 'Tis good to think how many lose their way Amid the thorns and dangers of this world; How many are more lost amid it's sweets. 2973. WAR. War snarleth in the gentle eyes of Peace. 2974. DANGERS external-owe their greatest force to internal. * Powers from abroad, and Discontents at home, In one line meeting-then Confusion Stoops as a Raven on a sick fallen Beast Upon a Nation thus to Fate devote. 2975. FORTITUDE. 21. The cincture of a pious Fortitude Holds 'gainst all Tempests. 2976. CORRUPTIONS-PUBLIC. Their Remedy must not be procrastinated or delay'd. 3. When with inveterate Ills the Times are sick, Strong present Medicine must be minister'd, Or Overthrow incurable ensues. 2977. REFORM-it's true Character is peaceful. 44. Reform should be nor violent nor rash: Nor fits it that the sore of evil Times Should seek a plaster by contemn'd Revolt, And heal the canker of one angry wound By making many and worse. 2978. RESISTANCE-in extreme Cases. 5. Such may be the infection of the Times That for the health and physic of our Right We can not deal but with the very hand Of Force; whose tendency is ever prone To stern injustice and confused wrong*. 2979. PASSIONS conflicting. 64. Great Passions, wrestling in a noble Bosom, Between an Error and the Love of Right, Do make an Earthquake. 2980. VALOUR. 7§. Valour is emulous to win Renown Even in the jaws of Danger and of Death. 2981. REVOLT. 8. Revolt, when happy, has another Name. 2982. TESTIMONY-of a dying Man. 9. He that hath hideous Death before his view Retaining but a quantity of Life, Which melts away, even as a Form of wax 10. Those who run riot in Prosperity, *The Maxim of CICERO from PLATO is as true and just as benevolent. "Vim neque Parentibus neque Patriæ inferendam :" But that force may be repell'd which must not be offer'd. Shrink from their bankless* and irregular course; Stoop low within those bounds they have o'erlookt, And calmly run on in obedience, E'en to their Ocean. 2984. WATCHFULNESS-moral. 2. A virtuous Watchfulness will guard itself, Lest Hope or Fear tempt it beyond its power +. 2985. PROGNOSTIC Medical.-Delirium. 3. Oft at the near approach of Death, the Brain, (Which some suppose the Soul's frail Dwellinghouse) Doth, by the idle Comments that it makes, 2986. SINGING. Singing is sometimes known to take place in nervous illnesses, where it has been unusual, or never practis'd by the party before. 2987. 'Tis strange that Death should sing; Yet there have been who, like the fabled Swan, Have chanted solemn Hymns to their own Death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sung The Soul and Body to their lasting rest. Bankless was the conjectural reading of my Mother, in whose hand I have seen it. It preserves the Unity of the Metaphor and is confirmed by his favorite OVID—" Dee quoque littora Ponto." rant GOD is faithful: who will not suffer you to be tempted beyond that which ye are able: but will with the tempta tion make a way to escape." I. COR. x. That great Master, MOZART, composed the Requiem for his own Death (and it is thought one of his finest Compositions) some few days before he died. And just before his Death he requested his Wife to bring it: and it was performed. Ff |