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Grafp at command and tow'r in queft of empire;
While vulgar fouls compaffionate their cares,
Gaze at their height, and tremble at their danger :
Thus meaner fpirits with amazement mark
The varying feasons, and revolving skies,
And afk, what guilty pow'r's rebellious hand
Rolls with eternal toil the pond'rous orbs;
While fome Archangel nearer to perfection,
In eafy ftate prefides o'er all their motions,.
Directs the planets with a careless nod,
Conducts the fun, and regulates the fpheres..

The Unfteadiness of an arbitrary GOVERNMENT, and the Mifery of a defpotic PRINCE.

[TRAP.]

O government can e'er be fafe that's founded.
On luft, on murder, and defpotic power.
"Tis not in lawless strength, to turn and manage
This cumb'rous and unwieldy bulk of empire,
Which like the restlefs fea ftill works and toffes,
Vex'd with continual change and revolution.
How. few of my unhappy fucceffors

Will 'fcape my fate? Even while we keep the throne,
We fear thofe fubjects threats on whom we frown,
Infringe their liberty, and lofe our own;

And hourly prove by arbitrary fway,

That he's the greatest flave, whom none but flaves obey..

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F there be any land, as fame reports, where common

Where common laws reftrain the prince and fubject,. A happy land, where circulating pow'r

Flows through each member of th' embodied ftate,.
Sure not unconfcious of the mighty bleffing,
Her grateful fons fhine bright with ev'ry Virtue;
Untainted with the luft of innovation,
Sure all unite to hold her league of rule
Unbroken as the facred chain of nature,
That links the jarring elements in peace..
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The KILLING of a B.O A R

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ORTH from the thicket rufh'd another boar So large he feem'd the tyrant of the woods, With all his dreadful briftles rais'd up high; They feem'd a grove of fpears upon his back: Foaming he came at me, where I was pofted, Whetting his huge long tufks, and gaping wide, As he already had me for his prey;

Till brandishing my well-pois'd javelin high,

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With this bold executing arm I ftruck dobila Uon I The ugly brindled monfter to the heart.

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7E purfued the chafe,.

When from behind the wood, with rustling
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A monftrous boar rufh'd forth his baleful eyes.
Shot glaring fire, and his ftiff-pointed briftles de LEXM
Rofe high upon his back at me he made,

Whetting his tufks, and chewing hideous foam.
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Collecting all himself, and rifing to the blow,

He launch'd the whiftling fpear, the well-aim'd javelin.
Fierc'd his tough fide, and quiver'd in his heart;
The monster fell, and gnafhing with huge tufks,
Plough'd up the crimfon eartha 365

DESCRIPTION of a POPULOUS CITY

HIS ancient city,

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How wanton fits fhe, amidst nature's fmiles! Nor from her higheft turret has to view

But golden landfkips and luxuriant fcenes,

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A wafte of wealth, the ftore-houfe of the world is d Here fruitful vales far ftretching fly the fight,ordi There fails unnumber'd whiten all the ftream,

While from the banks full twenty thoufand cities

Survey their pride, and fee their gilded towers-
Float on the waves, and break against the fhoar.
Various nations meet

As in a fea, yet not confin'd in fpace,.

But ftreaming freely thro' the fpacious ftreets,
Which fends forth millions at each brazen gate;
Whene'er the trumpet calls high over head,
On the broad walls the chariots bound along.

RURAL COURTSHIP.

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E preferr'd me.

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Hove the maidens of my age and rank;

Still fhun'd their company, and ftill fought mine..
I was not won by gifts, yet ftill he gave

And all his gifts, tho' fmall, yet fpoke his love:
He pick'd the earliest strawberries in the woods,
The cluster'd filberts, and the purple grapes :
He taught a prating Stare to fpeak my name;
And when he found a neft of nightingales, baa
Or callow linnets, he would fhew 'em me,m boni
And let me take 'em outri

DESCRIPTION of a PERSON left on a defart ISLAND..

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[THOMSON.]

caft on the wildeft of the Cyclad Ifles,
EXT night-a dreary night on või kao hierd

Where never human foot had mark'd the fhore,
Thefe Ruffians left me.-

-Beneath a fhaɗė JANJ

I fat me down, more heavily opprefs'd,
More defolate at heart, then e'er I felt
Before. When Philomela o'er my head
Began to tune her melancholy ftrain,
As piteous of my woes, till, by degrees,
Compoling fleep on wounded nature fhed
A kind but short relief. At early morn

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Wak'd by the chaunt of birds, I look'd around:
For ufual objects: objects found I none,
Except before me ftretch'd the toiling main,
And rocks and woods, in favage view, behind..

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The firft FEATS of a young EAGLE.

So the eagle,

[RowE.]

That bears the thunder of our grandfire Jove,
With joy beholds his hardy youthful offspring
Forfake the neft, to try his tender pinions
In the wide untrack'd air, till bolder grown,
Now like a whirlwind on the fhepherd's fold,
He darts precipitate, and gripes the prey;
Or fixing on fome dragon's fcaly hide,
Eager of combat, and his future feaft,
Bears him aloft, reluctant, and in vain,
Wreathing his fpiry tail.

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The true E ND of EDUCATION.

[ROWE.]

ND therefore wer't thou bred to virtuous knowledge,.

And wifdom early planted in thy foul,

That thou might'ft know to rule thy fiery paffions:
To bind their rage, and ftay their headlong course;
To bear with accidents, and every change
Of various life; to ftruggle with adverfity;
To wait the leifure of the righteous Gods.
Till they in their own good appointed hour,,
Shall bid thy better days come forth at once;
A long and fhining train; till thou, well pleas'd,
Shalt bow, and blefs thy fate, and fay the Gods are jufti

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FILIAL PIETY..

[MALLET.]

'ER fince reflection beam'd her light upon me,, You, fir, have been my ftudy. I have plac'd,.

Before mine eyes in ev'ry light of life,

The father and the king. What weight of duty, ogz
Lay on a fon from fuch a parent fprung;

What virtuous toil to fhine with his renown

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Has been my thought by day, my dream by night U

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But first and ever neareft to my heart.

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Was this prime duty; fo to frame my conduct
Tow'rd fuch a father, as, were I a father,
My foul would with to meet with from a fon.
And may reproach transmit my name abhorr'd
To lateft time-if ever thought was mine
Unjuft to filial reverence, filial love.

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The fame. [THOMSON.]

AVE I then no tears for thee, my father?
Can I forget thy cares, from helpless years
Thy tenderness for me? An eye ftill beam'd
With love? A brow that never knew a frown?
Nor a harsh word thy tongue? Shall I for thefe
Repay thy ftooping venerable age

With fhame, difquiet, anguish and dishonour?
It must not be !-thou firft of angels! Come
Sweet filial piety! and firm my breaft!
Yes, let one daughter to her fate fubmit,
Be nobly wretched-but her father happy.-

BAD FORTUNE more easily borne than GOOD.

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7ITH fuch unfhaken temper of the foul

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To bear the fwelling tide of profp'rous fortune,

Is to deferve that fortune. In adverfity
The mind grows rough by buffeting the tempeft;
But in fuccefs diffolving, finks to eafe,

And lofes all her firmnefs.

DESPAIR never to be INDULGED.

THO

[PHILIPS.]

HO' plung'd in ills, and exercis'd in care,
Yet never let the noble mind defpair:

When prefs'd by dangers, and befet with foes,
The Gods their timely fuccour interpofe;
And when our virtue finks, o'erwhelm'd with grief,
By unforeseen expedients bring relief.

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