Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, Ev'n mean self-love becomes, by force divine, 285 290 reference to the usage of the Papal religion, which includes a service called a rosary and crown. This consists in repeating, a certain number of times, the Lord's prayer, and the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, " that she would bear a son," &c., and that they may know when it is accomplished, they have the proper number of beads upon a string, and as often as they repeat it through, slip a bead to the other end of the string, till all have changed ends, when it is done. 291–292. Even mean self-love becomes the scale This, perhaps, the poet would consider as the sanction of our Saviour's golden rule. Our self-love leads us to desire good treatment from others, and may therefore influence us to practise the same unto them. By thine-thine is B pro. supplving the place of an obj. and pro., viz. thy wounds EPISTLE III. HIRE then we rest; "The universal cause 5 I. Look round our world; behold the chain of love Combining all below and all above. See plastic nature working to this end, All forms that perish, other forms supply, (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die,) 10 EPISTLE III. 5. Let this great truth, &c. What is this great truth? The sentence marked with a quotation, answers. 10. See the single atoms, each tend toward the other. Each, or every one, is a distributive expression for a number taken singly, and in opposition with atoms. 11. See them attract-attracted to is a part. from the complex verb to muract to. 14 Good, in the end of the line, is in app with centre, 20 Like bubbles, on the sea of matter borne, Thy joy, thy pastime, thy attire, thy food? 25 30 35 40 27. Has God worked, &c. Work is here made a regu tar verb, which is seldom the case, except in the sea-phrase, "he worked his passage." So in some of Pope's other writings, we find catched instead of caught. 29-30. He who, &c. sprends. 40. Part pays-a part of the products of the year must be expended in support of the ox, by whose labors they were increased. Know, nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear. "See all things for my While man exclaims, use!" "See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose; And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. Grant that the powerful still the weak control; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole: Nature that tyrant checks; he only knows, And helps another creature's wants or woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? Man cares for all: to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods: For some, his interest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride: All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy 50 55 61 Th' extensive blessings of his luxury. He saves from famine, from the savage saves; 65 49. Grant man to be, &c. 53-6. The falcon, jay, and hawk regard not the colors, brilliancy, or musical powers of those creatures who they devour. They have but one object, which is, to stisfy bunger. Which sees no more the stroke, or feels the pain, 69 75 II. And find the means proportion'd to their end. 8 85 68. Favor'd man-It has been the opinion of many, both ancient and modern, that those who were struck by lightning, were sacred personages, and particular favorites of heaven; because they were relieved from the terrors and pains of a natural death. 77. Exclamatory sentences, like this, seem to have an independent sense in the third person, as in the second, when an address is made,-Great standing miracle; that heaven did assign to its only thinking thing (or man) this turn of mind. |