And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book i. Hymn 88.

Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours.

When I can read my title clear

To mansions in the skies,

I'll bid farewell to every fear,

And wipe my weeping eyes.

There is a land of pure delight,

Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

Book ii. Hymn 19.

Hymn 63.

Ibid.

Hymn 65.

Hymn 66.

So, when a raging fever burns,

We shift from side to side by turns;

And 't is a poor relief we gain

To change the place, but keep the pain.

Hymn 146.

Were I so tall to reach the pole,

Or grasp the ocean with my span,

soul:

I must be measured by my
The mind's the standard of the man.1

Hora Lyrica. Book ii. False Greatness.

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.

Doxology.

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 (L'Estrange's Abstract),

chap. i.

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul.OVID: Metamorphoses, xiii.

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 1676–1745.

The balance of power.

Speech, 1741.

Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."

COXE: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369. Anything but history, for history must be false.

Walpoliana. No. 141.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.2

VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 1678-1751.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

8

On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2.

The dignity of history.

Letter v.

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.5

Letter to Mr. Pope.

1 "All men have their price" is commonly ascribed to Walpole. 2 Hazlitt, in his "Wit and Humour," says, "This is Walpole's phrase." The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. ROCHEFOUCAULD: Maxim 298.

3 Dionysius of Halicarnassus (quoting Thucydides), Ars Rhet. xi. 2, says: "The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples."

4 HENRY FIELDING: Tom Jones, book xi. chap. . HORACE WALPOLE: Advertisement to Letter to Sir Horace Mann. MACAULAY: History of England, vol. i. chap. i.

5 Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

POPE: Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 331.

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.1

Necessity, the mother of invention.2

Sc. 2.

The Twin Rivals. Act i.

THOMAS PARNELL. 1679-1717.

Still an angel appear to each lover beside,
But still be a woman to you.

When thy Beauty appears.

Remote from man, with God he passed the days;
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

We call it only pretty Fanny's way.

The Hermit. Line 5.

An Elegy to an Old Beauty.

1 Leaving his country for his country's sake. — FITZ-GEFFREY: The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake, stanza 213 (1596).

True patriots all; for, be it understood,

We left our country for our country's good.

GEORGE BARRINGTON: Prologue written for the opening of the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 1796. New South Wales, p. 152.

RICH

WYCHERLY: Love in a Wood.

2 Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention. ARD FRANCK: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658, printed in 1694). Necessity is the mother of invention.

act üi. sc. 3 (1672).

Magister artis ingenique largitor

Venter

(Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention).

PERSIUS: Prolog. line 10.

Let those love now who never loved before;

Let those who always loved, now love the more.

Translation of the Pervigilium Veneris.1

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 1.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.
Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause,
An awful pause! prophetic of her end.

Line 18.

Line 23.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.

Line 55.

Line 67.

Line 154.

Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.

To waft a feather or to drown a fly.

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?

Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer.3

Line 212.

Line 390.

1 Written in the time of Julius Cæsar, and by some ascribed to Catullus:

Cras amet qui numquam amavit;

Quique amavit, cras amet

(Let him love to-morrow who never loved before; and he as well who has loved, let him love to-morrow).

2 See Butler, page 215.

3 See Congreve, page 295.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 393.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
All men think all men mortal but themselves,
He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

Line 417.

Line 424.

Night i. Line 24.

And what its worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

Line 51.

Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:

Who does the best his circumstance allows

Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.

Line 90.

"I've lost a day!"-the prince who nobly cried,

Had been an emperor without his crown.'

Line 99.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself

Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

Line 112.

The spirit walks of every day deceased.

Line 180.

Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.

Line 292.

Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
"T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven.
Thoughts shut up want air,

Line 334.

Line 376.

And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

Line 466.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

Line 602.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate
Is privileg'd beyond the common walk
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

Line 633.

Line 641.

1 Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, 'My friends, I have lost a day!'"' SUETONIUS: Lives of the Twelve Caesars. (Translation by Alexander Thomson.)