Young. 3 2 3 3 AMBITION. But, with sly art, | puts Virtue's aspect on. No mask, in basest mind, Ambition wears, AMBITION DISSATISFIED.— Young. 5f.st 2 e 4 3 AMBITION REPENTED.—Brooke. Oh! that some villager, [whose early toil e Had claimed my birth! ambition had not then Thus stept 'twixt me and heaven. 4 [3 4 ch He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk | soon twists him down, ех And wins them,... but to lose them in his turn. 3 ANCESTRY.- Alex. Bell. If we must look to ancestry for fame, 4 Let us at least deal justly with mankind. Why should we rake the ashes of the dead 3 28 1f For honours only? why conceal their crimes? We snatch our fathers' glories from the dust, 4 e And wear them as our own: | Why should we seek To cover with oblivion their shames? st The frailties of our sires, [set full in view | Might teach their children modesty. q 4 € Out upon thee, fool! Go, speak thy... comforts To spirits tame and abject as thyself; 3 4 3 m [4 st Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused; As poison heals, in just proportion used: In heaps, like ambergris, | a stink it lies, But, well dispersed, is incense to the skies. To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, Subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; Yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, And lead him forth as a domestic cur, The e are the triumphs of all powerful beauty! 3 pr pl Oh! dark, dark, dark, [amid the blaze of noon, | Irrevocably dark-total eclipse mon 28 Without all hope of day! | O, first created beam, and thou, great Word, st.or tr pl Let there be light," and light was [over all; | 3 CHARITY.— Rowe. 3 Think not, the good, The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done, 2 Shall die forgotten all: the poor, the prisoner, The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow, [Who daily own the bounty of thy hand, | exp Shall cry to Heaven, and pull a blessing on thee. CHILDHOOD. 3 4 e j The world of a child's imagination is the creation of a far holier spell than hath been ever wrought [by the pride of learning, or the inspiration of poetic fancy. Innocence that thinketh no evil; ignorance that apprehendeth none; hope that hath experienced no blight: love that suspecteth no guile: these are its ministering angels! these wield a wand of power, making this earth a paradise!-Time, [hard, rigid teacher! | Reality, [rough, stern reality! | World, [cold. heartless world! that ever your sad experience, your sombre truths, your killing cold, your withering success, could scare those gentle spirits from their holy > q exp 28 3 a tr ex 2 temple! And wherewith do ye replace them? With caution, 1 that repulses confidence, | with doubt, [that repelleth love; | with reason that dispelleth delusion; with fear, [that poisoneth enjoyment; in a word, with knowledge.—that fatal fruit, the tasting whereof, [at the first onset, | cost us paradise. pl 4 e COMMENTATORS.- Young. Commentators each dark passage shun. And hold their... farthing candle to the sun Patience! Hence, that word was made For brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;- Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine, His... milk-white hand the palm is hardly clean, But here and there, an ugly smutch appears. 1 Exp 4 qe 2 st Foh! 'twas a bribe that left it. He has touched 49 Is in our power; and therefore, who dares greatly, I pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad! 2 Ex st s st tr I will not trouble thee! my child, farewell! We'll no more meet, no more see one another! 2 Exp > But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter, 4qe Hv Or, rather, a disease that's in my flesh- A plague-sore-an embossed carbuncle, 3f s In my corrupted blood... But I'll notchide thee: Or tr Let shame come when it will, I do not call it. I do not bid the thunder-bearer strike, Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove : 4fEx Mend, when thou canst; be better-at thy leisure! Torture thou mayst, but... thou shalt ne'er despise me. 2 The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear; And sighs and cries [by nature grow on pain: 4e< 5 v But these are foreign to the soul: not mine The groans that issue, or the tears that fall; pr DESERT. Shakespeare. 4 Use every man according to his desert, and who shall escape 3 st 4 whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. 3 sad 2 within me,— The fountain of my heart dried up With nought that lov'd me, and with nought to love, mon I stood upon the desert earth... alone; s. tr And in that deep and utter agony, | [Though then, [than ever | most unfit to die, I fell upon my knees, and prayed for death. As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, |