A FRIEND to FREEDOM can never be a TRAITOR. [THOMSON.] SO YO E who contends for freedom, НЕ Can ne'er be juttly, deemed his fovereign's foe: No, 'tis the wretch that tempts him to fubvert it, The foothing flave, the traitor in the bofom, Who beft deferves that name; he is a worm That eats out all the happiness of kingdoms. DESCRIPTION of a HAG. 5 m590 GGI 949 A 39m 101 elomisbaar vi N a clofe lane, as I purfued my journey, Ilayda wither'd hag, with age grown double, Ι Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herfelf; Her eyes with fcalding rheum were gall'd and red, HAPPINESS the infeparable Companion of VIRTUE. [ROWE.] -T O be good is to be happy; angels Are happier than men, becaufe they're better.. Guilt is the fource of forrow; 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind With whips and ftings the blefs'd know none of this, And find the height of all their Heav'n is goodness.. H HONOUR fuperior to JUSTICE. [THOMSON.] Onour, my Lord, is much too proud to catch LA At every fender twig of nice diftinctions, tru Thefe for th' unfeeling vulgar may do well: But The real DUTY of a. KING. TIS: true, I IS true, I am a king: my aim: CHARACTER of a good, KING. ES, we have loft a father! The greatest bleffing heaven bestows on And feldom found amidst these wilds of time, He fpurn'd the flattering crew, with fcorn rejected Beneath the facred fhelter of the laws; The GUILT of bad KINGS. 7HEN thofe whom Heaven diftinguishes o'er mil- And showers profufely power and fplendor on them, Whate'er Whate'er th' expanded heart can wifh; when they, Or worse, pervert thofe gifts to deeds of ruin, WHO The true END of LIFE. [THOMSON.] HO, who would live, my Narva, just to breathe Day after day, the ftill returning round REFLE The fame. [S. JOHNSON.] EFLECT that life and death, affecting founds, Reflect that life, like every other bleffing, Not for itself but for a nobler end Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. A LION overcome by a MAN. TU print, all but his bands, on which he wore A pair of gantlets. At laft, the door of an old lion's den Being drawn up, the horrid beast appear'd: His His prey; and with a roar, , that made us pale,, Flew fiercely on him: but Lyfimachus With a flight hurt; and as the lion turn'd, CHARACTER of an excellent, MA N. OW could my tongue H% Take pleafure, and be lavish in thy praife!. How could I fpeak thy nobleness of nature! Thy open manly heart, thy courage, conftancy, bak And in-born truth, unknowing to diffemble: Thou art the man in whom my foul delights, In whom, next Heav'n, I truft. VIRTUE the only true Source of NOBILITY. [THOMSON.] Tell thee then, whoever amidst the fons Of reafon, valour, liberty, and virtue, Difplays diftinguifh'd merit, is a noble Of Nature's own creating. Such have rifen, mo no On her aftonish'd foes, and fhakes them from her. The happy EFFECTS of MISFORTUNE.. [THOMSON.] Ime bravet virtues. And to many great F misfortune comes, the brings along a qui Illuftrious fpirits have convers'd with woe, Have in her school been taught, as are enough. To |