Of fancy, when our hearts remain below?
Virtue abounds in flatterers, and foes:

'Tis pride, to praise her; penance, to perform.

2420

To more than words, to more than worth of tongue,

Lorenzo rise, at this auspicious hour;

An hour, when Heaven's most intimate with man;

When, like a falling star, the ray divine

2425

Glides swift into the bosom of the just;
And just are all, determined to reclaim;
Which sets that title high, within thy reach.
Awake, then; thy Philander calls: awake!
Thou, who shalt wake, when the creation sleeps;
When, like a taper, all these suns expire;
When Time, like him of Gaza in his wrath,,
Plucking the pillars that support the world,
In Nature's ample ruins lies entomb'd,
And Midnight, universal Midnight! reigns.

2421. Worth of tongue: Excellence of speech.
2431. Him of Gaza: Samson. See Judges xvi. 29, 30.

2430

Apocalypt

Warning

INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS

INDEX.

LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE POET

A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF THE WORKS OF DR. YOUNG

CONTENTS OF NIGHT I., ON LIFE, DEATH, AND IMMORTALITY.

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The Redeemer on the cross...

Resignation to the great Arbiter of life and death.

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The grandeur of human nature.

The praise of Redemption more appropriate to man than to
angels...

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The base idolatry of fortune

Lysander and Aspasia. The disappointed nuptials.

NIGHT VI.-THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED. PART I.

The nature of Immortality.

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True wealth, in the intellectual and moral powers.

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Bp. Butler's argument, from analogy, for a future state

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