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The Ministers of human fate,

And black Misfortune's baleful train! Ah, show them where in ambush stand, To seize their prey, the murd'rous band! Ah, tell them they are men!

These shall the fury Passions tear,
The vultures of the mind,

Disdainful Anger, palid Fear,

And Shame that sculks behind; Or pining Love shall waste their youth, Or Jealousy, with rankling tooth,

That inly gnaws the secret heart; And Envy wan, and faded Care, Grim-visag'd comfortless Despair,

And Sorrow's piercing dart.

kindness' alter'd eye [4], s the tear it forc'd to flow; emorse with blood defil'd, Madness laughing wild (g)

crest woe.

ale of Years beneath

-oop are seen,

family of Death,

ous than their Queen:

And hard Unkindness' alter'd eye.

re, observes Mr. Mason, is ungraceful, and hurts this al line: One of the same kind in the second line of kes the same blemish; but I think they are the only n this correct writer; and I mention them here that nay not look upon them as authorities. The judicious ppose that I would condemn all elisions of the genitricture on those which are terminated by rough conhere are which the ear readily admits, and which use to it.

noody Madness laughing wild.

Madness laughing in his ireful mood.

Dryden's Fable of Palamon and Arcite.

Low-consuming A

atis suff' rings: a demn'd alike to gr

ander for another's

unfeeling for his o why should the

Tow never com

appiness

too sw

ght would destroy Core-where igno folly to be wise.

And slow-consuming Age.

each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;

tender for another's pain,

Ch' unfeeling for his own.

ah! why should they know their fate, ce sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies?

Ought would destroy their paradise. more; where ignorance is bliss, Tis folly to be wise.

σαντα, την πάθει μαθαν

Θέντα κυρίως ἔχειν.

ÆSCHYLUS, in Agamemnone.

as originally published in Dodsley's Miscellany, under the Hymn to Adversity." Dr. Johnson says, the hint of the first taken from " O Diva, gratum quæ Regis Antium;" has excelled his original by the variety of his sentiments, eir moral application. "Of this piece," adds the rigid at once poetical and rational, I will not by slight obviolate the dignity."-What is this, after all, but to “damn int praise ?"]

UGHTER of Jove, relentless power,
ou tamer of the human breast,
iron scourge and tort'ring hour
e bad affright, afflict the best!
in thy adamantine chain,

roud are taught to taste of pain,
urple tyrants vainly groan

ngs unfelt before, unpitied and alone.

INEAGLE

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