And blended form, with artful ftrife, The strength and harmony of life. The golden mean. He that holds faft the golden mean, The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, The tallest pines feel moft the pow'r The bolts that fpare the mountain's fide, And spread the ruin round. Moderate views and aims recommended. With passions unruffled, untainted with pride, By reafon my life let me fquare: The wants of my nature are cheaply supplied; And the rest are but folly and care. How vainly, through infinite trouble and strife, Since all that is truly delightful in life, Attachment to life. The tree of deepest root is found Leaft willing ftill to quit the ground: 'Twas therefore faid, by ancient fages, That love of life increas'd with So much, that in our later stages, years, When pains grow fharp, and fickness rages, Virtue's addrefs to Pleasure *. Vaft happiness enjoy thy gay allies! A youth of follies, an old age of cares; Young yet enervate, old yet never wife, Vice wastes their vigour, and their mind impairs. Vain, idle, delicate, in thoughtless ease, Referving woes for age, their prime they spend; All wretched, hopeless, in the evil days, With forrow to the verge of life they tend. Griev'd with the prefent, of the past afham'd, They live and are defpis'd; they die, nor more are nam'd. SECTION Y. Verfes in which found correfponds to fignification. Smooth and rough verfe. Soft is the ftrain when Zephyr gently blows, Slow motion imitated. When Ajax ftrives fome rock's vaft weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move flow. Swift and eafy motion. Not fo when swift Camilla fcours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. Felling trees in a wood. Loud founds the axe, redoubling ftrokes on ftrokes; On all fides round the foreft hurls her oaks *Senfual pleasure. Headlong. Deep echoing groan the thickets brown; Then rustling, crackling, crafhing, thunder down. Sound of a Bow-ftring. -The ftring let fly Twang'd short and sharp, like the fhrill swallow's cry. The Pheasant. See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, Scylla and Charybdis. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, Boiferous and gentle founds. Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, Laborious and impetuous motion. Regular and flow movement. First march the heavy mules fecurely flow; O'er hills, o'er dales, o'er crags, o'er rocks they go. Motion flow and difficult. A needlefs Alexandrine ends the fong; That, like a wounded fnake, drags its flow length along. A rock torn from the brow of a mountain. Still gath'ring force, it fmokes, and urg'd amain, Whirls, leaps, and thunders down, impetuous to the plain. Extent and violence of the waves. The waves behind impel the waves before, In those deep folitudes, and awful cells, Battle. -Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible difcord; and the madding wheels Of brazen fury rag'd. Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, SECTION VI. Paragraphs of greater length. Connubial affection. The love that cheers life's latest stage, 'Tis gentle, delicate, and kind, Swarms of flying infects. Thick in Beneficence its ern reward. My fortune (for I'll mention all, And more than you dare tell) is fmall; |