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t&mfr infcdte la vulgar souls , . JSpyy steps in and stops , his rise ; Envy , with poisoned tarnish , fouls His lustreyand his worth decries . He lives inglorious , or in want , " ¦
- ^ Fb college smd 6 M books confined ; Instead of learned tee ^ s called pedant , sj > uhce $ advanced * be ' s left behind : 3 fet left content , a genuine Stoic he , Great without patron , rich without Sotfth-sea .
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Onjhe Folly t > f expecting Pure Happiness . W hefc \ S orr d w is ~ & ur pa in £ ul 1 pt , Atad qttr path is marked with thorns ^
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If smiling pleasure u ^ should gteet , Pleasure will be doubly sweet : But constant joy , Is Fancy ' s toy , And a snare which will destroy . So when the pitchy cloud is seen , Opposing to the yielding snn
Its gloomy surface $ —and the ram , Flies violent across the plain , — When its furious rage is done , Brighter is the scene . There is no state , fTis so by fate ) But change and fickle chance await
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( From the Spanish of Cervantes . ^ Human Life . Man is the subject of still varying change , And good and evil fleeting haste away : If always good ;—and never ill should . stay , This world would be confusion ' s
noisome range . Night follows day , —and cold to heat succeeds The flower unchangeably the fruit precedes— i All nature treads in the same shifting road - ¦ . . . . »
Slavery to sovereignty , — -and joy to woe > Glory becomes but wind and folfy : ;—scy Is Nature beautiful . is ^ Nature gooii ^
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( From , the French of Pbltaire . ) Frcm reason ' s sole dominion far * cmoV < f ; Got ! made thee , —not to know him , but to lovct 7 ( > Unseen by thee , O ! let him reign within ; He vice confounds , —but pardons erring
sin * Yet sad is voluntary error ' s doom : Mortal ! look , round thce for his beams illdmc .
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PoetTw : 1 S ' 5
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On a Candlt . Von taper slowly burns away , And you perceive not its decay i——The light of life too , swiftly burns , ' > And tbo * your eye , cannot descry Its mouldering , to the grave it turns *
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*'¦ * * ¦ Toleration a la Toinline * Papists , throughout our king ' s dominions Freely * ertjoy your own opinions ,
Adore the Virgin , kneel to crosses , tearless frotti- tis of pains end losses ; Swallow transub—strict to the letter , Swear that ti ^ Fo |> e is heir to Peter , Worship your God a $ suits your wishes , J 2 iU de not touch out loaves and fishes .
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Sir , August , 18 J 8 ] fc . I presume that your correspondent ^ Who signs himseff Vermiculus , will be pleased to' see ( if you should at any time ka * vev a spafe Sorrier for it ) a copy of
the verses to which , I apr > rehend , he refers ( Moti . Rep . Vol . VII . p . 157 . ) occasioned by Bishop Berkeley ' s Tar-Watef , I 744 , as iliey are given in " The Fe £ & 0 & £ , '' -8 icollecfitirn of Epigrams 8 tc . published in 1766 . -
I . Lo ! every subject Berkeley treats With elegance and ease 1 * Far' breathes forth' aromatic sweets , And metaphysics please ! S . Yhougn , humbly first , the sage ex pi ores f virtues of the pine 5 To loftiest themes he gently soars , Physician and'DM be !
3 . Here battered rakes , for taint or gout , A sure balsamic find : Here sophs may learn what Plato thougfit ® tihe Eternal Mind . 4 ^ He ^ cefort r ^ let p oai e tbe lawn , decry , ^ iC ^ i ^^ y's piQus care Teach wits to own a Trinity , And beaux to relish tar . J . T . E .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1814, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2438/page/49/
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