Patronage.

"Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus,

Sat habet favitorum semper qui recte facit."-PLAUTUS. “Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri."-HORACE.

"Better it is to die, better to starve,

Than crave the hire which first we do deserve."-SHAKESPEARE,

"Full little knowest thou who hast not tried

What hell it is in sueing long to bide;

To lose good days that might be better spent ;
To waste long nights in pensive discontent :
To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares,

To eat thy hearte through comfortless despairs:

To fawne, to crouche, to waite, to ride, to run,

To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne."-SPENCER.

"Better is the life of a poor man in a mean cottage, than delicate fare in another man's house. Be it little or much, hold thee contented, that thou hear not the reproach of thy house. For it is a miserable life to go from house to house: for where thou art a stranger, thou darest not open thy mouth."-ECCLESIASTICUS.

"Tu proverrai sì come sa di sale

Lo pane altrui, e com' è duro calle

Lo scendere, e 'l salir per l' altrui scale."-DANTE.

Time was when every author was the slave,
With dedicated fulsome reverence,
To some great man of pow'r or affluence;
But now, Mæcenas' reign is in the grave,
And writers ride triumphant on the wave
Of public suffrage and the Common Sense.
Wit wants no longer Favour's false pretence,
Nor Genius stands aside for fool or knave.

Thrice blest his lot, like mine, who never stood
Promotion-seeking at the proud man's gate,
But earn'd an independent livelihood
By his free labour in the liberal State;
Calls no man lord and master, cap in hand,
To bow, go, fetch, come, carry, at command.

A Prophecy.

Friede, ihr Herren! Muss der Soldat Friede rufen? Nun da
ihr von uns nichts hören wollt, nun bringt auch eure Ge-
sundheit aus, eine bürgerliche Gesundheit.
Sicherheit und Ruhe!

Tetter. Dazu sind wir bereit!

Soest.

Ordnung und Freiheit!

Buyck. Brav! das sind auch wir zufrieden.

Alle.

Sicherheit und Ruhe! Ordnung und Freiheit !"-GCETHE. "No more shall nation against nation rise,

Nor ardent warriors meet with hateful eyes;

Nor fields with gleaming steel be cover'd o'er,

The brazen trumpet kindle rage no more:

But useless lances into scythes shall bend,

And the broad falchion in a ploughshare end."-POPE.

Every man shall eat in safety

Under his own vine what he plants, and sing

The merry song of peace to all his neighbours."-SHAKESPEARE,
"Sarcula nunc, durusque bidens, et vomer aduncus,

Ruris opes niteant: inquinet arma situs.
Conatusque aliquis vaginâ ducere ferrum,

Adstrictum longâ sentiat esse morâ.”—OVID.

"Tum genus humanum positis sibi consulat armis,
Inque vicem gens omnis amet: pax missa per orbem
Ferrea belligeri compescat limina Jani."-LUCAN.

Rare 'mid the Nations is the Prophet-Seer,
Whose soul unto the Future mounts serene:
Our thoughts are fashion'd to the present scene,
Or swath'd in cerements of the Past: we fear
Too much the scoffer's jibe, the sceptic's sneer.
Yet Chaucer saw the Crystal-palac'd Queen ;*
And War amid the idols that have been,
Shall be, and babes smile when of it they hear.

.*

The Beast's-mark brands the War-God's brow, unclean As the foul murder-shrines of Mexico:

Cleft is his shield, for all the heraldic gilt
Emblazon'd there in Chivalry's false sheen:
Shiver'd his sword: he leans upon the hilt,
And shrinks from Commerce' swift-impending blow.t

See Notes *8, †9.

LXXIX.

The Fiery Furnace.

"The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm."-COLTON.

The World must yet by fiery wars be purg'd,
Ere Truth run drossless; sweat of Battle must
The People's quarrel with the Crowns adjust,
Ere Might and Right in Justice shall be merged;
With full effect the Poor's loud cause be urged,
The Idols of our social system, Lust,

Pride, Selfishness, be levelled in the dust,
Opinion's wave on every shore have surg'd:
Ere rulers, be they magistrates or kings,
As stewards, not as masters, guide the State,
And Education universal reigns;

Law o'er all ranks its equal safeguard flings,
Love links in brotherhood the low and great,
In her own dungeon Want be bound in chains.

On Numan Progress.

L'age d'or, qu'une aveugle tradition a placé jusqu'ici dans le passé, est devant nous."-ST. SIMON,

ઃઃ

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these; for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning the same."

“ οὐκ ἀείδω τὰ παλαιὰ,

καινὰ γὰρ μάλα κρέισσα.”—TIMOTHEUS.

r Antiquitas mundi hominum juventus."-BACON.
"Prisca juvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum
Gratulor."-OVID.

"Vetera extollimus, recentium incuriosi."-TACITUS.

ECCL. vii. 10.

«Ημεις τῶν πατέρων μέγ' ἄμεινονες ἔυχομεθ ̓ ειναι.”—HOMER.

How often hath the Poet's story told

Of three great epochs of the human mind,
Wherein from good to worse we have declin'd:
The first Age in Creation was of Gold;
Of Silver fashion'd, forth the second roll'd;
The third in ribs of Iron is confin'd:-

'Tis false. In everything the immortal mind
Hath ever been advancing from of old.
Iron was largely mix'd with our first clay;
A richer metal shines, though feebly bright,
In present men; and Time perchance may see
The costliest ore in our posterity.

So breaks the silvery dawn from iron night.
To the full splendour of a golden day.

Antiquity.

"It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see further than the giaut himself: and the modern standing on the vantage-ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves; for that alone is true antiquity which embraces the antiquity of the world, and not that which would refer us back to a period when the world was young. But by whom is this true antiquity enjoyed? not by the ancients who did live in the infancy, but by the moderns who do live in the maturity of things."-COLTON.

"Who for the most part are they that would have all mankind look backwards instead of forwards, and regulate their conduct by things that have been done? they who are the most ignorant, that are the most ignorant as to all things that are doing. Lord Bacon said, Time is the greatest of Innovators. He might also have said the greatest of improvers, and I like Madame DeStael's observation on this subject quite as well as Lord Bacon's. It is this: The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on an alteration of some past that went before it.' "-COLTON.

:

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance thau pedantry by her learning since she mistakes the nonage of things for their virility, and her creed is that darkness is increased by the accession of light; that the world grows younger by age, and that knowledge and experience are diminished by a constant and uninterrupted accumulation."--COLTON.

What man would seek his counsel from a child?
Yet such do they who cast a wishful eye
Back to the wisdom of Antiquity.

Falsely, be sure, that Age was golden styl'd
When man, a hunter, roamed the forest wild,
Folded his flocks, or first learnt husbandry:
Then was the world in its rude infancy.

As Ages by in slow procession filed,
Through youth to promise of maturity
Our race hath reach'd: each Generation climbs
Upon the vantage-ground of all past times,
Heir to all thoughts and deeds of earlier man:
As on the giant's neck the dwarf perch'd high,
'Tis borne, and looks forth with the wider scan.

See Note 10.