Pursues that Chain which links th’immenfe defign, 335 But touches fome above, and some below; NOTES. 66 VER. 341. For him alone," joy, and is the fupport and Hope leads from goal to goal," confort of his old age. &c.] PLATO, in his first Hope, the most powerful "of the Divinities, in gobook of a Republic, hath a remarkable paffage to this "verning the ever-changing purpose. "He whofe con"and inconftant temper of fcience does not reproach!" mortal men.” Tỡ đề μndèv “him, has chearful Hope, kaulõ ädıxov guveidófi údeĩa éntic + for his companion, and ἀεὶ πάρεςι, καὶ ἀγαθὴ γηροτρόφος, “ the fupport and comfort ὡς καὶ Πίνδαρος λέγει. Χαριένως “ of his old age, according γάρ τοι, ὦ Σώκρατες, τῦτ ̓ ἐκεῖνος 66 to Pindar. For this great εἶπεν, ὅτι ὃς ἂν δικαίως καὶ ὁσίως poet, Ο Socrates, very τὸν βίον διαγάγῃ, γλυκεῖά οἱ καρelegantly fays, That he δίαν ἀτάλλεσα γηροτρόφος συναιρεῖ μάλιςα θνατῶν πολύςρο "who leads a just and holy is, " life has always amiable φον γνώμαν κυβερνᾷ. In the fame Hope for his companion, manner Euripides speaks in "which fills his heart with his Hercules furens, 66 Οὗτος δ ̓ ἀνὴρ ἄριςος, ὅσις ἐλπίσιν 105. 'Till lengthen'd on to Faith, and unconfin'd,. It pours the blifs that fills up all the mind. He fees, why Nature plants in Man alone 345 Hope of known blifs, and Faith in blifs unknown : (Nature, whofe dictates to no other kind Are giv'n in vain, but what they seek they find) 350 Self-love thus pufh'd to focial, to divine, Extend it, let thy enemies have part: 355 Grafp the whole worlds of Reason, Life, and Sense, Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. 360 God loves from Whole to Parts: But human foul Must rise from Individual to the Whole. Self-love but ferves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; NOTES. "He is the good man in "without hope in the world "is the portion of the "wicked." 365 The centre mov'd, a circle ftrait fucceeds, 370 Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along; Oh mafter of the poet, and the fong! VARIATIONS. 374 VER. 373. Come then, my friend! &c.] in the MS. thus, NOTES. VER. 373. Come then, my Friend! &c.] This noble Apoftrophe, by which the Poet concludes the Effay in an addrefs to his friend, will furnish a Critic with Examples of every one of those five Species of Elocution, from which, as from its Sources, Longinus deduceth the SUBLIME I. The firit and chief is a Grandeur and Sublimity of Conception : Απέντε πηγαί τινές εἰσιν τ ̓ ὀψηγορίας. 1. Πρῶτον μὲν καὶ κράτισον τὸ περὶ τὰς νοήσεις ἀδρεπήβολον. 2. Δεύτερον δὲ τὸ σφοδρὸν καὶ ἐνθε σιαςικὸν πάθω. 3. Ποιὰ τῶν σχημάτων πλάσις. 4. Ἡ γενναῖα φράσις. 5. Πέμπλη δὲ μεγέθες αἰτία, και συγκλείεσα τὰ πρὸ ἑαυτῆς ἅπανία, ἡ ἐν ἀξιώματι καὶ διάρσει σύνθεσις, And while the Mufe now ftoops, or now afcends, To Man's low paffions, or their glorious ends, VARIATIONS. While heav'n-ward now her mounting wing the feels, NOTES. Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along, And while the Mufe now floops, and now afcends, z. The Second, that Pa- | the fame Time, melts and thetic Enthufiafm, which, at | inflames : Teach me, like thee, in various nature wife, 3. A certain elegant Formation and Ordonance of Figures: O! while along the ftream of Time thy name Purfue the triumph, and partake the gale! 4. A fplendid Diction: When ftate femen, beroes, kings, in duft repofe, Teach me, like thee, in various nature wife, Oh! while along the ftream of Time thy name 380 Say, fhall my little bark attendant fail, 385 Pursue the triumph, and partake-the gale? When statesmen, heroes, kings, in dust repose, Thou wert my guide, philofopher, and friend? 390 NOTES. That, urg'd by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art, 5. And fifthly, which in- a Weight and Dignity in cludes in itfelf all the reft, the Compofition: Shew'd erring Pride whatever is, is RIGHT; G |