Victorious in the conflict, as the truce,

Triumphant in a Burns, as in a Bruce!

Where'er the bay, where'er the laurel grows,

Their wild notes warble, and their life-blood flows.

There, Truth courts access, and would ALL engage,

310

Lavish as youth---experienced as age;

Proud Science there, with purest Nature twined,

In firmest thraldom holds the freest mind;
While Courage rears his limbs of giant form,

Rock'd by the blast, and strengthen'd by the storm!

Rome Fell; and Freedom to her craggy glen

Transferr'd that title proud--The Nurse of Men,---
By deeds of hazard high, and bold emprize,

Train'd like their native eagle for the skies,—

Untam'd by toil, unconquer'd till they're slain,

Walls in their trenches,--whirlwinds on the plain.
This meed accept from Albion's grateful breath,
Brothers in arms' in victory! in death!
H

320

Such are thy foes, Napoleon, when Time

Wakes Vengeance, sure concomitant of Crime.

--Fix'd, like Prometheus, to thy rock, o'erpowered
By force, by vulture-conscience slow devoured ;
With godlike power, but fiendlike rage, no more
To drench the world-thy reeking stage--in gore:
Fit but o'er Shame to triumph, and to rule;
And prov'd in all things--but in danger---cool,

That found'st a Nation melted to thy will,

And Freedom's place didst with thine image fill;

Skill'd not to govern, but obey the storm,

To catch the tame occasion, not to form;

Victorious only when success pursued,

But when thou follow'd'st her, as quick subdued;

333

The first to challenge, as the first to run;

Whom Death and Glory both consent to shun--

Live! that thy body and thy soul may be

Foes that can't part, and friends that can't agree--

340

Live! to be number'd with that common herd.

Who life's base boon unto themselves preferr'd

Live! till each dazzled fool hath understood

That nothing can be great, that is not good.

And when Remorse, for blood in torrents spilt,

Shall sting---to madness---conscious, sleepless Gulit,
May deep Contrition this black hope repel,---

350

--Snatch me, thou Future, from this Present Hell!-

Give me the mind that, bent on highest aim,

Deems Virtue's rugged path, sole path to Fame;
Great things with small compares, in scale sublime,
And Death with Life! Eternity with Time!

Man's whole existence weighs, sifts nature's laws,
And views results in th' embryo of their cause;
Prepar❜d to meet, with corresponding deeds,
Events, as yet imprison'd in their seeds;

Kens in his acorn hid, the King of Trees,

And Freedom's germ in foul Oppression sees;

Precedes the march of Time---to ponder fate.

And execute, while others meditate;

That, deat to present praise, the servile knee Rebukes, and says to Glory-Follow me!

THE END.

INDEX, &c.

Note The Figures refer not to the Page, but to the Articles

ANTITHESIS, defence of it, 1.
Applause cotemporaneous, 14.
Acquirements recondite, 53.
Antient philosophers, 55.
Arcesilaus, a remark of his, 56.
Attention, 65.
Acquaintance, two sorts, 70.
Authorship, 85.
Adried, 91.

Antiquity and ancestry, 113.
Absurdities, 119.

Apostles, three great ones, 158.
Authors, 206.

Age and Love, 259.
Ataraxy, 264.
Ancestry, its pride, 272.
Benevolence, 64.
Bodies corporate, 76.
British constitution, 208.
Books, 248.

Coxcombs, grateful when,

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Cuckoldom, 41.

Candour, 45.
Characters, 63.

Character of a People, 80.
Credulity, 86.
Courage, 93.

Death, 110.

Diogenes, why he used a lanthorn, 11
Disorders, 118.
Diamond, 134.

Delight, its cause, 143.
Doubt, 146.
Duels, 161.

Death, a wonder, 186.
Devil and trustees, 195.
Deception, a double one, 240
Dotage, 267.

Experience neglected, 25.
Evil parturescent, 60.

Education of the lower orders, 87,
Epigram, 103.

Effects and causes, 147.

England's four powers, 155
Education, female, 175.
Early impressions, 203.

Extemporaneous harangues, 225.

Preface, Excellence, 258.

Cause, a good one injured, 98.
Controversies, religious, 111.
Criticism, 122.

Centuries when of age, 134.
Codes, severe ones, 139.
Composition, 143.

Coxcombs, 165

Conversions, 197.

Calumny, 239.

Consolations selfish, 247.

Christianity a social religion, 282.
Drunkenness, 38.

Dunces, how to manage them, 19.
Death, 68.
Diplomacy, 69.

Enemies, how to get them, 275.
Flattery, 72.

Flattery, cunning, 75.
Fame posthumous, 105.
Fortune a goddess, 106.
Fame a small fountain, 124.
Fools and Rogues, 156.
Free press, 179.

Fashion its miseries, 187.
Flattery, 198.

French Revolution, 211.
Flat catchers, 245.
Forms of Liberty, 268.
Foreknowledge, 280.
Free agency, 280.

Great men seldom pitied-why, il
Gossipers, 78.

Great minds, 112.

Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123
Genius, 133.

Grandfathers and grandmothers, 144.
Ghosts, 202.