And while the Mufe now stoops, or now afcends, 375 To man's low paffions, or their glorious ends. NOTES. dress to his friend, will furnish a Critic with example of Come then, my Friend! my Genius! come along, And while the Muse now ftoops, or now ascends, 2. The fecond, that pathetic Enthufiafm, which, at the fame time, melts and inflames; Teach me, like thee, in various nature wife, 3. A certain elegant Formation and Ordonance of Figures: Oh! while along the ftream of Time thy name Say, fhall my little bark attendant fail, 4. A fplendid diction: a When statesmen, heroes, kings, in duft répofe, · πέντε πηγαί τινές εἰσι τῆς ὑψηγορίας. 1. Πρῶτον μὲ καὶ κράτισον τὸ αξὶ τὰς νοήσεις ἀδρεπήβολον. 2. Δεύτερον δὲ τὸ σφοδρὸν καὶ ἐιθεσιαςικὸν πάθω. 3. Ποιὰ τῶν οχημάτων πλάσινο 4. Η γυναία φράσις. 5. Πέμπτη 3 μεγέθες αἰτία, καὶ συγκλείωσα τα πρὸ ἑαυτῆς ἅπανα, ἡ ἐν ἀξιώματι καὶ άρση σύνθεσης. Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, 380 385 Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name NOTES. Shall then this verfe to future age pretend Thou wert my guide, philofopher, and friend ? That, urg'd by thee, I turn'd the tuneful art From founds to things, from fancy to the heart; For wit's falfe mirror held up Nature's light; 5. And, fifthly, which includes in itself all the rest, a Weight and Dignity in the compofition: Shew'd erring pride whatever is, is RIGHT; That REASON, PASSION, anfwer one great AIM; For Wit's false mirror held up Nature's light; VARIATIONS. VER. 397. That virtue only, &c.] In the MS. thus, NOTES. VER. 394. Shew'd erring Pride, Whatever is, is Right;} The poet's address to his friend, which concludeth this epiftle fo nobly, and endeth with a recapitulation of the general argument, affords me the following obfervation, with which I fhall conclude these remarks. There is one great beauty that fhines through the whole Essay: The Poet, whether he speaks of Man as an Individual, a Member of Society, or the Subject of Happiness, never misseth an opportunity, while he is explaining his ftate under any of these capacities, to illuftrate it in the moft artful manner by the inforcement of his grand Principle: THAT EVERY THING TENDETH TO THE GOOD OF THE WHOLE; from whence his fyftem receives the reciprocal advantage of having that grand Theorem realized by facts, and his facts juftified on a principle of Right or Nature. |