he takes this flight, like an unruly horse, untain does complain, als in many windings down, the hated court and town! glides away. from the sun, or from t Where all the fruitf How some go down Some more ambitious! form the leaves, the b strove to cultivate a ba garden's better worth mankind fell, and her XI. I believe a spirit so di eup at best with lumb Some she binds 'pren straw: Some she condemns f dig the leaden mines of she has to the Muse's g Or from the sun, or from the air, or from the ea How some go downward to the root, And form the leaves, the branches, and the fru XI. Shall I believe a spirit so divine Was cast in the same mould with mine? Why then does Nature so unjustly share Among her elder sons the whole estate, And all her jewels and her plate?' Poor we cadets of Heaven, not worth her ca Take up at best with lumber and the leavings fare: Some she binds 'prentice to the spade, Some she does to Egyptian bondage draw, straw: Some she condemns for life to try To dig the leaden mines of deep philosophy: Me she has to the Muse's gallies tied, is worthless verse, mble Muse, y niggard stars; k did at my birth infuse, ndolence and ease; debauch'd by praise, urable disease: foolish fire I try losophy: ome herbs I sow, out weeds will grow : corn on barren earth) 1 birth to poetry. [The recovery of this Ode was owing to the exertions of chol. (See his Select Collection of Poems, 1778.) structure of verse, and turn of thought, there is an imitation of Dryden's Eulogy upon Oliver Cromwell among other circumstances, shows, that the taste of youth was formed not upon the better compositions o of the seventeenth century, but upon those which had shionable in the beginning of Charles II.'s reign. probably owed to his residence with Temple.] To purchase kingdoms and to buy renown, Are arts peculiar to dissembling France; You, mighty monarch, nobler actions crown And solid virtue does your name advance. Your matchless courage with your prudence The glorious structure of your fame to rai With its own light your dazzling glory shine And into adoration turns our praise. Had you by dull succession gain'd your cro er sole guard, the laws, 's bloody sacrifice; , and from the monster's jaws the lovely, helpless prize. rious is the care ests, as at first to gain: ims a double share, vely won, does well maintain. ur rightful title show'd, ll Europe's hopes depend, s to some guardian God, btful liberty defend. the Boyne we see! tarted at the vast design: all redounds to thee, nt, th' event, were wholly thine. es all our foes disarm; give orders and command, remaining work perform, ur of your conquering hand. ODE TO THE ATHE The noted John Dunton, an aut afterwards encountered the edge Jar 1690-1, set forth a literary for an association of wits, to iety. According to his own a as only second to the Royal S press his admiration, why the the age with a second best histor for the promotion of learning Face." If the knowledge of t at all inferior to that of their gr of communication made some ar only to answer curious queries "I have been told, that Drydo Cousin Swift, you will ne annciation was the motive of Sw Dryden,"JOHNSON. |