Purfue thee to the peaceful groves, He bade Iliffus' tuneful ftream Reclaim'd her wild licentious youth, The paffions ceas'd their loud alarms, Thy breath infpires the Poet's fong,, Of still domestic life. No more to fabled names confin'd, My thoughts direct their flight : O fend her fure, her steady ray, foul Beneath her clear difcerning eye Of Folly's painted show : On On Mr. NASH'S PICTURE At full Length, between the Bufts of Sir Ifaac Newton, and Mr. Pope. HE old Egyptians hid their wit THE In hieroglyphic drefs, To give men pains in search of it, Moderns, to hit the self-fame path, Place figures in a room at Bath: Newton, if I can judge aright, His knowledge gives mankind delight, Adds to their happiness. Pope is the emblem of true wit, The funshine of the mind; Read Read o'er his works in search of it, Nafh represents man in the mass, The picture plac'd the bufts between, ADVAN ADVANTAGES LIFE. N° O man ought to look upon the advantages of life, fuch as riches, honour, power, and the like, as his property, but merely as a truft, which God hath depofited with him to be employed for the use of his brethren; and God will certainly punish the breach of that truft, though the laws of man will not, or rather indeed cannot; becaufe the truft was conferred only by God, who has not left it to any power on earth to decide infallibly, whether a man makes good use of his talents or no, or to punish him where he fails. And therefore God feems to have more particularly taken this matter into his own hands, and will certainly reward or punifh us in proportion to our good or ill performance of it. Now, although the advantages which one man poffeffeth more than another, may, in fome fenfe, be called his property with respect to other men, yet with refpect to God, they are only a truft; which will plainly appear from hence : |