only Wit, spirit, faculties, but make it worse; in the same As heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sour. queen, some favorite still obey: 150 Ah! if she lend not arms, as well as rules, Can What can she more than tell us we are fools? ShTeach us to mourn our nature, not to mend ; A sharp accuser, but a helpless friend! Or from a judge turn pleader, to persuade whee it 155 The choice we make, or justify it made perfect participle Proud of an easy conquest all along, She but removes weak passions for the strong. So, when small humors gather to a gout, 1 gather t The doctor fancies he has driven them out. 160 Yes, nature's road must ever be preferr'd humord Reason is here no guide, but still a guard; duty 'Tis hers to rectify, not overthrow, And treat this passion more as friend than foe; This Let power or knowledge, gold or glory, please, für 150. This weak queen Reason. 152. What can she do, or what can she tell us, &c 153. She reason) can teach us, &c. 163. To rectify, not overthrow, is her part. The infini tive is frequently put after the verb is, of which it is the 165. The strong direction-self-love. Or (oft more strong than all) the love of ease; Through life 'tis follow'd, ev'n at life's expense; The monk's humility, the hero's pride, which would be And in one interest body acts with mind. learn On savage stocks inserted learn to bear ; mon. ax 172 175 180 185 170. Strong is an adj. agreeing with love, unless we understand the compound relative what. An adj. or participle, or relative, included in a parenthesis, may agree with its noun, or antecedent out of the same, and the contrary, but there can be no agreement or government of nouns and verbs in the like situation. 171. Through life it is followed, &c. i. e. the thing, whatever it be that pleases more than other things. 172. The merchant's toil, the sage's indolence, all find reason, &c. 177. The mercury of manmind. the temperament of the 179. The dross cements that, which otherwise would be, &c. 184. Wild nature's vigor working, &c. A substantive and participle are put absolute, in the nom. when the case depends on no other word. 185. What is often used as fying how many, or how great. a demonstrative pro., signi From spleen, from obstinacy, hate, or fear! 190 Ev'n avarice, prudence; sloth, philosophy; Jufined. Lust, through some certain strainers well refin'd, Is gentle love, and charms all womankind; Envy, to which th' ignoble mind is a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave; Nor virtue, male or female, can we name, But what Will grow on pride, or grow on shame. Thus nature gives us (let it check our pride) The virtue nearest to our vice allied: Reason the bias turns to good from ill, 196 200 And makes a patriot as it makes a knave. IV. This light and darkness in our chaos join'd, What shall divide? The God within the mind. Extremes in nature equal ends produce, 205 193. Male and female are adjs. agreeing with virtue. 195. Thus nature gives us (-) the virtue, &c. Some have allowed an active verb to govern two objective cases, one of the person, and the other of the thing; but a prep. may always be understood to govern the person. 197. Reason turns the bias, &c. 198. Titus is the nom. c. after reigns. 199. The fiery soul, &c. The same restless spirit being regulated by more virtuous principles of action, and directed to proper objects of pursuit, proves, in Decius, a charm and a blessing to his country. 204. The God within the mind shall divide this light and darkness. In man they join to some mysterious use; Though each by. turns the other's boundsinvade, 210 If white and black blend, soften, and unite V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, her We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 220 But where th' extreme of vice, was ne'er agreed: wher you Ask where's the North? at York 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where; than he : But thinks his neighbor further gone 225 230 VI. Virtuous and vicious every man must be; Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree; 208. As light and shade invade each other's bounds. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise, Each individual seeks a several goal; [the whole. That, disappoints th' effect of every vice : Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, 240 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally by after to be The common interest, or endear the tie. To these we owe true friendship, love sincere, owe Each home-felt joy that life inherits here; 八 Yet from the same we learn, in its decline, 256 Those joys, those loves, those interests, to resign; 260 241. That applied happy faculties, &c. 245-7. That can raise and can build. |