Trained, by Divine grace, to enjoy with moderation the ad vantages of the world, neither lifted up by success, nor enervated with sensuality, he meets the changes in his lot with out unmanly dejection. He is inured to temperance and restraint. He has learned firmness and self.command. He is accustomed to look up to that supreme Providence, which disposes of human affairs, not with reverence only, but with trust and hope. The time of prosperity was to him not merely a season of barren joy, but productive of much useful improvement. He had cultivated his mind. He had stored it with useful knowledge, with good principles, and virtuous dispositions.. These resources remain entire, when the days of trouble come. They remain with him in sickness, as in health; in poverty, as in the midst of riches ; in his dark and solitary hours, no less than when surrounded with friends and gay society. From the glare of prosperity, he can, without dejection, withdraw into the shade. Excluded from several advantages of the world, he may be obliged to retreat into a narrower circle; but within that circle he will find many comforts left. His chief pleasures were always of the calm, innocent, and temperate kind; and over these, the changes of the world have the least power. His mind is a kingdom to him; and he can still enjoy it. The world did not be tow upon him all his enjoyments; and therefore it is not. in the power of the world, by its most cruel attacks, to care ry them all away. LESSON XLIX. BLAIR SHORT AND EASY SENTENCES IN POETRY SECTION I Education. 'T IS education forms the common mind ;; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin’d. Candor. With pleasure let us own our errors past; Reflections The private path, the secret acts of men, Necessary knowledge easily attained. Our needful knowledge, like our needful food, Disappointment. As bees in flow'rs; and stings us with success. Natural and fanciful life. Who lives to nature, rarely can be poor; Happiness modest and tranquil But it compos'd, and gave him such a cast True greatness. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, The tear of sympathy. No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears, Shine with such lustre, as the tear that breaks, SECTION 10 SECTION II. VERSES IN WHICH THE LINES ARE OF DIE FERENT LENGTH. The passions. The passions are a numerous crowd,. Imperious, positive, and loud. Epitaph. How lov'd, how valu'd once, avails thee not, SECTION III. VERSES CONTAINING EXCLAMATIONS, IN Can gold gain friendship? Impudence of hope Patience. Beware of desp❜rate steps. The darkest day, (Live till tomorrow) will have pass'd away, Luxury: ..... O luxury! Bane of elated life, of afluent states, The source of happiness.. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense; But health consists with temperance alone + SECTION IV. VERSES IN WHICH THE SOUND CORRESPONDS Smooth and rough verse.. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw "Swift and easy motion. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main "Loud sounds the axe, redoubling strokes on strokes } ... Sound of a bow string. Twang'd short and sharp, like the shrill swallows cry. See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs. Scylla and Charybdis. Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, Two craggy rocks projecting to the mains Laborious Laborious and impetuous motion. With many a weary step, and many a groan, First march the,heavy mules securely slow,; A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. The waves behind impel the waves before, Wide rolling, foaming high, and tumbling to the shore. In those deep solitudes, and awful cells, Battle. Arms on armor clashing bray'd Horrible discord; and the maddening wheels, Sound imitating reluctance. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, SECTION V. PARAGRAPHS OF GREATER LENGTH. The love that cheers life's latest stage, But |