41 And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill.. 60 5 Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, meteor-like, flame lawless through the void, 66 Most strength the moving principle requires; Form'd but to check, deliberate, and advise. 70 Thicker than arguments, temptations throng; 75 Reason still use, to reason still attend. 79 58. To their improper operation ascribe all ill. 62. Were active-an elegant poetical usage for would be active. 67-69. It should be kept in mind that in all the fol lowing part of this work, the poet treats of self-love as the moving, and reason as the comparing principle. 72. Reason's objects are at a distance. 74. Reason sees the future, &c. 79. Attention gains habit and experience Each strengthens reason, and self-love restrains. Let subtle school-men teach these friends to More studious to divide than to unite; And grace and virtue, sense and reason split, Wits, just like fools, at war about a name, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. 85 91 95 III. Modes of self-love the passions we may call; 'Tis real good, or seeming, moves them all : But since not every good we can divide, And reason bids us for our own provide; Passions, though selfish, if their means be fair, List under reason, and deserve her care; Those, that imparted, court a nobler aim, Exalt their kind, and take some virtue's name. In lazy apathy let stoics boast 101 81. Those skilled in the Divinity of the schools, or dealers in speculative Divinity. 83. Let them point out nice distinctions between grace and virtue, &c. 93. We call the passions modes of self-love. 99. Those that are imparted, court a nobler aim; or those, that being imparted, court, &c. cxait. nom. to exalt · -that in the nom. to court. Those in the 101-6. Let stoics boast their virtue to be fixed; or, that Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fix'd as in a frost; Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. Reason the card, but passion is the gale; 105 109 He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind. 115 Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain; These, mixt with art, and to due bounds confin'd, And when in act they cease, in prospect rise: their virtue is fixed. It (their virtue) is all contracted, retiring to the breast, i. e. consists in a criminal indifference to everything. 114. Can man destroy that, which composes man? 115. Let it suffice that reason keep. The verb is here put in the subj. mood after that. 121. These are the lights and shades-- or, these make the lights and shades. Present to grasp, and future still to find, 125 All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, 130 134 The young disease, which must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. So, cast and mingled with his very frame, 140 145 125. To grasp prosent pleasures, and to find future pleasures, are the whole employ-ment of body and of mind. 131. One master passion, &c. This idea we believe is first to be found in the writings of Longinus, the celebrated critic of other times, who attests the sublimity of the Scriptures, in the passage, "God said, let there be light, and there was light." 138. The mind's disease came to be, i. e. became, &c. 141. To whatever warms the heart, &c. imagination plies her dangerous art. e; 12 Wit, spirit, faculties, but make it worse; As heaven's blest beam turns vinegar more sour. In this weak queen, some favorite still obey: 13 Ah! if she lend not arms, as well as rules, 34 What can she more than tell us we are fools? is Proud of an easy conquest all along, She but removes weak passions for the strong. 150 155 The doctor fancies he has driven them out. 160 And treat this passion more as friend than foe; 150. This weak queen. Habit. 152. What can she do, or what can she tell us, &c 166 163. To rectify, not overthrow, is her part. The infinitive is frequently put after the verb is, of which it is the subject, and whose representative is the pronoun it. 165. The strong direction-self-love, |