Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain, 69 145 75 II. Whether with reason, or with instinct blest, And find the means proportion'd to their end. 81 What pope or council can they need beside tessiler Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, is 85 Stays till we call, and then not often near; modig is. But honest instinct comes a volunteer, 68. Favor'd man-It has been the opinion of many, both ancient and modern, that those who were struck by lightning, were sacred personages, and particular favorites of heaven; because they were relieved from the terrors and pains of a natural death. 77. Exclamatory sentences, like this, seem to have an independent sense in the third person, as in the second, when an address is made,-Great standing miracle; that heaven did assign to its only thinking thing (or man) this turn of mind. Sure never to o ershoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short is human wit; 90 Sure by quick nature happiness to gain, P 95 In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis mann Mate Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, wave, or arch beneath the sand? Build on the wave Who made the spider parallels design, drive mund Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line? Who bid the stork, Columbus like, explore 105 Heavens not his own, and worlds unknown before? And creature link'd to creature, man to man. 110 97. And raise reason o'er instinct as you can raise it. Raise is, by hypothesis, in the imp. mode. 101. Who gave them foresight to withstand? prescient is an adj. agreeing with them understood. Whate'er of life all-quick'ning ether keeps, 115 Or breathes through air, or shoots beneath the deeps, Or pours profuse on earth, one nature feeds 120 Nor ends the pleasure with the fierce embrace; A longer care, man's helpless kind demands; 130 115-118. One nature feeds the vital flame, and swells the genial seeds of everything of life, which all quickening either keeps or breathes, or shoots, or pours, &c., the verbs being connected, in each case, by or. This construction may, however, be doubted, and we are inclined to adopt the following: Let or be taken for either as or whether, it will read thus-One nature feeds, &c., of whatever, &c. all quick'ning either keeps (or sustains) either as (or whether) it breathes, or shoots, or pours (i. e. puts forth) profusely, &c. 130. Another love succeeds, another race succeeds. With choice we fix, with sympathy we burn; 136 141 Still as one brood, and as another rose, The state of nature was the reign of God: 150 Pride then was not; nor arts that pride to aid: 142. Saw him helpless from whom the life began. 144. That-memory. This (forecast) points, &c. 151. Nor were arts, to aid that pride. 152. Joint tenant is in apposition with man. 155. Wood is in apposition with temple. 155 The shrine with gore unstain'd, with gold undrest, And man's prerogative, to rule, but spare. Ah! how unlike the man of times to come! And every death its own avenger breeds; 160 165 instinct then was reason's part;ND 170 Thus then to man the voice of nature spake Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: the Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; whe 157. The shrine was, &c. Unstained and undrest are participal adj's., having lost their original nature of pure parts. by being joined with the privative un. The privative always works this chance, when it makes the part with which it is joined, imply, that the state or act, which the part taken by itself, would express, never existed, or was never done. Thus, un-drest here means, that it never had been drest, &c. Undrest, when derived from the verb to undress, to divest of clothes, is a part. 160. To rule supplies a nom. after was understood, and spare is connected with it. 161. Ah! how unlike was he to the man of times to come. Butcher and tomb connected are in apposition with man. Man kills and devours for food, half that live. 167. The fury-passions-fury is a sub. used as an adj. 168. Man, in the end of the line, is in apposition with savage. |