Such are thy foes, Napoleon, when Time Wakes Vengeance, sure concomitant of Crime. ---Fix'd, like Prometheus, to thy rock, o'erpowered And Freedom's place didst with thine image fill; 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. Who life's base boon unto themselves preferr'd That nothing can be great, that is not good. And when Remorse, for blood in torrents spilt, 350 Give me the mind that, bent on highest aim, 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 secs; Precedes the march of Time---to ponder fate. And execute, whle others meditate; That, deaf 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 [Death, 110. Diogenes, why he used a lanthorn, 11 Delight, its cause, 143. Death, a wonder, 186. Experience neglected, 25. 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. Enemies, how to get them, 275. Flattery, cunning, 75. Fame posthumous, 105. Fashion its miseries, 187. French Revolution, 211. Great men seldom pitied-why, il Great minds, 112. Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123 Dunces, how to manage them, 19. Genius, 133. Death, 68, Diplomacy, 69. 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. Idleness, 49. Independence, 59. Immortality of the soul, 62. Knavery a mistake about it, 57. Love, its power, 125. Leyden Dr. an ode of his, 133. Light the best reformer, 168. Learned Dunces, 213. Priest and Physician, 79. Lawyer, good excuse for a roguish Style, 34. one, 246. Memory, 29. Marriage, a feast, 47. Mistake, two common ones, 92. Mythology, antient, 100. Mysteries, matters of faith, 103. Men in masses, 126. Revolutions, 276. Saints, 18. Speeches, written, 22. Self-knowledge, 54. Magnanimity, 274. Nonsense puffed, 51. Necessary things, 116. Nobility, 120. it, 178. Threats, 220. Unity of opinion, 121. Vanity differs from Pride, 66. Nations free only when they deserve Vanity a consolatory thing, 82. Nobility, 272. Opinions of the learned, 48. Observation of Paschals, 61. Originality, 243. 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. |