God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; Light shining out of Darkness. Ibid. Beware of desperate steps ! The darkest day, The Needless Alarm. Moral. On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. The son of parents pass'd into the skies. Ibid. 1 2 The man that hails you Tom or Jack, His sense of your great merit, On Friendship. A worm is in the bud of youth, Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality. The brave that are no more! On the Loss of the Royal George. The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.) 1 See Young, page 312. And says He sees that this great roundabout Church, army, physic, law, what he? Caw. The little and the great, Translation of Horace. Book ii. Ode x. But strive still to be a man before your mother. 2 Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii. 1 ERASMUS DARWIN. 1731-1802. Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam ! afar The Botanic Garden. Part i, Canto i. Line 289. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 459. 1 Keep the golden mean. - PUBLIUS SYRUS: Maxim 1072. 2 See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 199. BEILBY PORTEUS. 1731–1808. In sober state, Death. Line 108. Line 178. Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson ! how to die.3 Line 316. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732–1799. Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, conscience. Rule from the Copy-book of Washington when a schoolboy. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.* Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790. 'T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. His Farewell Address. i See Gray, page 385. 4 Qui desiderat pacem præparet bellum (Who would desire peace should be prepared for war). – VEGETIUS: Rei Militari 3, Prolog. In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello (In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. — HORACE: Book ii. satire ii. LORD THURLOW. 1732-1806. The accident of an accident. Speech in Reply the Duke of Grafton. Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142. When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.' 27 Parliamentary History, 680; Annual Register, 1789. JOHN DICKINSON. 1732-1808. Then join in hand, brave Americans all ! The Liberty Song (1768). Our cause is just, our union is perfect. Declaration on taking up Arms in 1775.2 W. J. MICKLE. 1734–1788. The dews of summer nights did fall, The moon, sweet regent of the sky,3 Silvered the walls of Cumnor Hall And many an oak that grew thereby. For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at a'; Cumnor llall. 1 Whereupon Wilkes is reported to have said, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, “Forget you! He'll see you d-d first." Burke also exclaimed, “ The best thing that could happen to you!” — BROUGHAM: Statesmen of the Time of George I11. (Thurlow.) 2 From the original manuscript draft in Dickinson's handwriting, which has given rise to the belief that he, not Jefferson (as formerly claimed), is the real author of this sentence. 8 Jove, thou regent of the skies. – Pope: The Odyssey, book ii. line 42. Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night. — GAY: Trivia, book iii. And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. — DARWIN: The Botanic Garden, part i. canto ii. line 90. The Mariner's Wife.1 There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'. His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs. Ibid. JOHN LANGHORNE. 1735-1779. Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, The Country Justice. Part i. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. 1735–1787. Hope ! thou nurse of young desire. Lore in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1. Lived on the river Dee; Sc. 2. Forever used to be, bid. ! "The Mariner's Wife" is now given" by common consent," says Sarah Tytler, to Jean Adam (1710-1765). 2 This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathetic lines of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott has mentioned that the only time he saw Burns this picture was in the room. Burns shed tears over it; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person present who could tell him where the lines were to be found. — LOCKHART: Life of Scott, vol. i. chap. iv. 3 If naebody care for me, Burns: I hae a Wife omy Ain. |