[Night Thoughts continued. The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. Night iv. Line 10.

Man makes a death which nature never made.

Night iv. Line 15.

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

Man wants but little, nor that little long.1

Night iv. Line 71.

Night iv. Line 118.

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Night iv. Line 233.

'T is impious in a good man to be sad.

Night iv. Line 676.

Night iv. Line 788.

A Christian is the highest style of man."

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Night iv. Line 843.

Night v. Line 177.

By night an atheist half believes a God.

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.3 Night v. Line 600.

1 Cf. Goldsmith, p. 348.

2 A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.

Hare, Guesses at Truth.

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.
Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i. L. 645.
8 He was exhal'd; his great Creator drew
His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.

Dryden, On the Death of a very Young Gentleman.

Night Thoughts continued.]

We see time's furrows on another's brow,
And death intrench'd, preparing his assault;
How few themselves in that just mirror see!

Night v. Line 627.

Like our shadows,

Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.1

Night v. Line 661.

While man is growing, life is in decrease ;
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.2

Night v. Line 717.

That life is long which answers life's great end.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Night v. Line 773.

Night v. Line 775.

Night v. Line 1011.

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on

Alps;

And pyramids are pyramids in vales.

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself: Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ;

Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. Night vi. Line 309.

And all may do what has by man been done.
Night vi. Line 606.

1 Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Line 268. 2 Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Bishop Hall, Epistles, Dec. iii. Epist. ii.

[Night Thoughts continued.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Night vii. Line 496.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Night viii. Line 721

A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

Night viii. Line 793.

Night viii. Line 1045

Final Ruin fiercely drives

Night ix. Line 167.

Her ploughshare o'er creation.1

'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand : Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. Satire i. Line 51.

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. Satire i. Line 89.

1 Cf. Burns, p. 386.

2 In brief, all things are artificial; for Nature is the art

- Sir Thomas Browne, Relig. Med., Pt. i. Sect. xvi.

Love of Fame continued.]

None think the great unhappy, but the great.1

Satire i. Line 238.

Where nature's end of language is declined,

And men talk only to conceal the mind.2

Satire ii. Line 207.

Be wise with speed;

Satire ii. Line 282.

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the

year,

And trifles life.

Satire vi. Line 208.

One to destroy is murder by the law;
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.
Satire vii. Line 55.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.3
Satire vii. Line 97.

1 As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.
Rowe, The Fair Penitent, Prologue.

2 The germ of this thought is found in Jeremy Taylor: Lloyd, South, Butler, Young, and Goldsmith have repeated it after him; see p. 594.

3 But to enlarge or illustrate this power and effects of love is to set a candle in the sun. - Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. iii. Sect. 2. Mem. 1. Subs. 2.

I forbear to light a candle to the sun.

to Mare Clausum, ed. 1635.

To match the candle with the sun. of His Love.

Selden, Preface

Surrey, A Praise

[Young continued.

Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener changed their principles than shirt. Epistle to Mr. Pope. Line 277.

Accept a miracle, instead of wit, ——

See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. Lines Written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord

Chesterfield.1

Time elaborately thrown away.

The Last Day. Book i.

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

Ibid. Book iii.

In records that defy the tooth of time.

The Statesman's Creed.

Great let me call him, for he conquered me.

The Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,

1 From Mitford's Life of Young. See also Spence's

Anecdotes, p. 378.

2 True as the dial to the sun,

Although it be not shin'd upon.

Butler, Hudibras, Pt. iii. C. 2,

L. 175.