Trained, by Divine grace, to enjoy with moderation the ad vantages of the world, neither lifted up by success, nor enervated with sensuality, he meets the changes in his lot with out unmanly dejection. He is inured to temperance and restraint. He has learned firmness and self.command. He is accustomed to look up to that supreme Providence, which disposes of human affairs, not with reverence only, but with trust and hope.

The time of prosperity was to him not merely a season of barren joy, but productive of much useful improvement. He had cultivated his mind. He had stored it with useful knowledge, with good principles, and virtuous dispositions.. These resources remain entire, when the days of trouble come. They remain with him in sickness, as in health; in poverty, as in the midst of riches ; in his dark and solitary hours, no less than when surrounded with friends and gay society. From the glare of prosperity, he can, without dejection, withdraw into the shade. Excluded from several advantages of the world, he may be obliged to retreat into a narrower circle; but within that circle he will find many comforts left. His chief pleasures were always of the calm, innocent, and temperate kind; and over these, the changes of the world have the least power. His mind is a kingdom to him; and he can still enjoy it. The world did not be tow upon him all his enjoyments; and therefore it is not. in the power of the world, by its most cruel attacks, to care ry them all away.

LESSON XLIX.

BLAIR

SHORT AND EASY SENTENCES IN POETRY

SECTION I

Education.

'T

IS education forms the common mind ;; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin’d.

Candor.

With pleasure let us own our errors past;
And make each day a critie on the last.

Reflections

The private path, the secret acts of men,
If poble, far the noblest of their lives.

Necessary knowledge easily attained.

Our needful knowledge, like our needful food,
Unhedg'd, lies open in life's common field;
And bids all welcome to the vital feast.

Disappointment.
Disappointment lurks in many a prize,

As bees in flow'rs; and stings us with success.

Natural and fanciful life.

Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor;
Who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Happiness modest and tranquil
Never man was truly blest,

But it compos'd, and gave him such a cast
As folly might mistake for want of joy :
A cast unlike the triumph of the proud;
A modest aspect, and a smile at heart.

True greatness.

Who noble ends by noble means obtains,
Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains,"
Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed
Like Socrates, that man is great indeed.

The tear of sympathy.

No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,
No gem, that twinkling hangs from beauty's ears,
Nor the bright stars, which night's blue arch adorns
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn,

Shine with such lustre, as the tear that breaks,
For others' wo, down Virtue's manly cheeks.

SECTION 10

SECTION II.

VERSES IN WHICH THE LINES ARE OF DIE

FERENT LENGTH.

The passions.

The passions are a numerous crowd,.

Imperious, positive, and loud.
Curb these licentious sons of strife:
Hence chiefly rise the storms of life.
If they grow mutinous, and rave,
They are thy masters, thou their dave.

Epitaph.

How lov'd, how valu'd once, avails thee not,
To whom related, or by whom begot ;-
A heap of dust alone remains of thee ;
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be

SECTION III.

VERSES CONTAINING EXCLAMATIONS, IN
TERROGATIONS, AND PARENTHESIS.
Friendship:

Can gold gain friendship? Impudence of hope
As well mere man an angel might beget.
Love, and love only, is the loan for love.
Lorenzo! pride repress, nor hope to find
A friend, but what has found a friend in thee,
All like the purchase; few the price will pay
And this makes friends such miracles below.

Patience.

Beware of desp❜rate steps. The darkest day, (Live till tomorrow) will have pass'd away, Luxury:

..... O luxury!

Bane of elated life, of afluent states,
What dreary change, what ruin is not thine
How doth thy bowl intoxicate the mind!
To the soft entrance of thy rosy cave,
How dost thou lure the fortunate and great
Dreadful attraction !

The source of happiness..

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense;
te in three words, health, peace, and competence :

But health consists with temperance alone +
And peace, O virtue !: peace is all thy own.

SECTION IV.

VERSES IN WHICH THE SOUND CORRESPONDS
TO SIGNIFICATION.

Smooth and rough verse..

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Slow motion imitated..

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw
The line too labors, and the words move slow.

"Swift and easy motion.

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,

Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main
Felling trees in a wood.

"Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes }
On all sides round the forest hurls her oaks
Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown §.
Then rustling, crackling, crashing, thunder down.

...

Sound of a bow string.
The string let fly

Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallows cry.
The pheasant.

See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs.
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings.

Scylla and Charybdis.

Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms,
And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms.
When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves,
The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves.
Boisterous and gentle sounds..

Two craggy rocks projecting to the mains
The roaring winds tempestuous rage restrain:
Within, the waves in softer murmurs glide;
And ships secure without, their, bawsers ride.

Laborious

Laborious and impetuous motion.

With many a weary step, and many a groan,
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone:
The huge round stone, resulting with a bound,
Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground!
Regular and slow movement.

First march the,heavy mules securely slow,;
O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go.
Motion slow and difficult. -

A needless Alexandrine ends the song,

That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
A rock torn from the brow of a mountain.
Still gath'ring force, it smokes and urged amaio,
Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain.
Extent and violence of the waves.

The waves behind impel the waves before,

Wide rolling, foaming high, and tumbling to the shore.
Pensive numbers.

In those deep solitudes, and awful cells,
Where heav'nly pensive contemplation dwells,
And ever musing melancholly reigns,

Battle.

Arms on armor clashing bray'd

Horrible discord; and the maddening wheels,
Of brazen fury rag'd...

Sound imitating reluctance.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.

SECTION V.

PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH.
Connubial affection.

The love that cheers life's latest stage,
Proof against sickness and old age,
Preserv'd by virtue from declension,
Becomes not weary of attention;

But