Take we its positive virtues next! The more Resentment tugs and kicks, Like heroes of true British mould: Full in your view, and next your hand, The Bramble's shoot, though Fortune lay For no obstructions will give out; Like valour, that can suffer, die, Do any thing, but yield, or fly. JAMES FORDYCE. 1721.1796. A Dissenting Minister, whose Sermons to young women, should be marked in the Index Expurgatorius of Morality. He published a volume of Poems, in 1786. TO COURTESEY: AN ODE. HAIL! Courtesy, thou gracious power, For selfish ends her tricks she plays; The practised eye perceives her art. Let polish'd Falsehood dazzle youth; Let Flatt'ry speak the style of courts: Far from dark Treachery's resorts. Prompted by love of human race, From generous motives bent to please: Thy feelings answer to thy face; Thy manners still are stampt with ease. The rich sometimes may-succour want : The great external gifts may grant, To charm the soul, but few incline, Sincere delight, would you each hour impart, Make haste to learn the breeding of the Heart. THOMAS COLE. 1796. Rector of Dalverton, in Somersetshire; two or three of his pieces are in Dodsley's Collection. The Specimens he.e given, are taken from a volume of his poems, published in 1795. This author published a volume of Sermons, and two poems. 1, The Arbour, or the Rural Philosopher, 1756; re-printed in Dodsley's Collection. 2, The Life of Hubert, A Narrative, Descriptive, and Didactic Poem. Book I, 1796. THE BEECH TREE, AN ALLEGORICAL ODE. SERENE and calm, the morning ray |