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ISAAC WATTS. 1674-1748.

DIVINE SONGS.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,
How many poor I see!

What shall I render to my God

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How doth the little busy bee

Improve each shining hour,

And gather honey all the day,

From every opening flower!

For Satan finds some mischief still

For idle hands to do.

Song xx.

Ibid.

1 Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ;

A fault which needs it most grows two thereby.

Herbert, The Church Porch.

To God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, three in one;
Be honour, praise, and glory given,
By all on earth, and all in heaven.
Glory to the Father and the Son.

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber!
Holy angels guard thy bed!
Heavenly blessings without number
Gently falling on thy head.

A Cradle Hymn.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him com

plain,

"You have waked me too soon, I must slumber

again."

The Sluggard.

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

A Funeral Thought.

Strange! that a harp of thousand strings.

Book ii. Hymn 19.

Should keep in tune so long.
Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measur'd by my soul :
The mind's the standard of the man.1
Hora Lyrica. Book ii. False Greatness.

1 I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. Seneca, On a Happy Life, Ch. 1. (L'Estrange's Abstract.)

WILLIAM CONGREVE. 1670-1729.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

Ibid. Acti. Sc. I.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 8.

For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 12.

If there's delight in love, 't is when I see
That heart which others bleed for bleed for me.
The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12.
Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of
thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.

Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5.

Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those

days.

The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.1

Ibid. Act v. Sc. I.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,

To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.2

Letter to Cobham.

Cf. Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, Act ii. Sc. 2;

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· Cf. Young, Night Thoughts, i. Line 1.

Rowe. Philips. - Berkeley.

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NICHOLAS ROWE. 1673-1718.

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

Is she not more than painting can express,
Or youthful poets fancy when they love?

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. I.

Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?

Ibid. Act v. Sc. I.

JOHN PHILIPS. 1676-1708.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood
The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,
By time subdued, (what will not time subdue!)
A horrid chasm disclosed.

The Splendid Shilling. Line 121.

BISHOP BERKELEY.

1684-1753.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;2

The four first acts already past,

A fifth shall close the drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

1 Cf. Young, The Love of Fame, Satire i. Line 238. 2 Westward the star of empire takes its way.

Epigraph to Bancroft's History of the United States.

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Bolingbroke. Farquhar.

HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1678-1751.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that History is Philosophy teaching by examples.1

On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.

GEORGE FARQUHAR.

1678-1707.

Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?

Kite. Oh! a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another. The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. 1. I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

The Beaux' Stratagem. Act iii. Sc. 1.

'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.2

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

The Twin Rivals. Acti.

1 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhet. xi. 2 (p. 398, R.), says : - Παιδεία ἄρα ἐστὶν ἡ ἔντευξις τῶν ἠθῶν· τοῦτο καὶ Θουκυδίδης ἔοικε λέγειν, περὶ ἱστορίας λέγων· ὅτι καὶ ἱστορία φιλοσοφία ἐστὶν ἐκ παραδειγμάτων, quoting Thucydides, I. 22.

2 Cf. Barrington, p. 391.

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