Such are thy foes, Napoleon, when Time Wakes, Vengeance, sure concomitant of Crime. -Fix'd, like Prometheus, to thy rock, o'erpowered 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; 330 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, That nothing can be great, that is not good. And when Remorse, for blood in torrents spilt, Shall sting-to madness---conscious, sleepless Guilt, 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; Man's whole existence weighs, sifts nature's laws, Events, as yet imprison'd in their seeds; Kens in his acorn hid, the King of Trees, 360 And Freedom's germ in foul Oppression sees; Precedes the march of Time--to ponder fate, That, deaf to present praise, the servile knee J. M GOWAN, Printer, THE END. 365 Note. The Figures refer not to the Page, but to the Articles. Books, 248. [Death, 110. Diogenes, why he used a lanthorn, 117. Delight, its cause, 143. Doubt, 146. Duels, 161. Death, a wonder, 186. Devil and trustees, 195. Deception, a double one, 240. Experience neglected, 25. Evil parturescent, 60. Education of the lower orders, 87. Effects and causes, 147. England's four powers, 155 Education, female, 175. Early impressions, 203. Extemporaneous harangues, 225. Coxcombs, grateful when, Preface, Excellence, 258. Cuckoldom, 41. Page 1. Candour, 45. Characters, 63. Character of a People, 80. Cause, a good one injured, 98. Centuries when of age, 134. Coxcombs, 165 Conversions, 197. Calumny, 239. Consolations selfish, 247. Christianity a social religion, 282. Dunces, how to manage them, 19. Enemies, how to get them, 275. Flattery, cunning, 75. Fashion its miseries, 187. French Revolution, 211. Great men seldom pitied-why, 11. Great minds, 112. Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123. Grandfathers and grandmothers, 144. Gold-making an art not desire-(Public opinion, 58. able, 242. Happiness, 109. Hope, 114. Hatred, a cause of it, 127. Health, why not envied, 232. Human ignorance, 281. Independence, 59. Immortality of the soul, 62. Jurisprudence, civil, 24. Knavery a mistake about it, 57. Leyden Dr. an ode of his, 133. Light the best reformer, 168. Learned Dunces, 213. Priest and Physician, 79. Philosophers, when fools, choice ones, 115. Pleasures, 151. Philosophy a Bully, 251. Revenge conquers self-love, 74. Risk when necessary, 142. Ridicule, 189. Religionists, 204. Revolutions, 276. Saints, 18. Speeches, written, 22. Self-knowledge, 54. Seduction, 73. Statesmen, 159. Systems, 160. Society, 162. Slander, 172. Systems of human conduct, 199. Times present always abused, 101. Truth portionless, 130. Truth like a Dolphin, 130. Timotheus when he demanded a double fee, 132. Time assists Poets, 176. Magnanimity, 274. Nonsense puffed, 51. Necessary things, 116. Nobility, 120. it, 178. Threats, 220. Nations free only when they deserve Vanity a consolatory thing, 82. Voice of the People, 265. Works of merit not popular, when, 7. Women, what they never pardon, 23. Women Eastern, 96. Posterity, what has it done for Wealth, 152. |