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Social Nature of Man—Cowper.
God, working ever on a social plan,
By various ties attaches man to man:
He made at first, though free and unconfin'd,
One man the common father of the kind.
Mutual influence of Vice and Errour.—Cowper.
Faults in the life breed errour in the brain;
And these, reciprocally, thoſe again.
The mind and conduct mutually imprint
And stamp their image in each other's mint.
The Sower.—Thomson.
While thro' the neighb'ring fields the sower stalks,
With measur'd step; and lib'ral throws the grain
Into the faithful bosom of the ground:
The harrow follows harsh, and shuts the scene.
Love of Solitude.—Tickell.
Sweet ſolitude, when life's gay hours are past;
Howe'er we range, in thee we fix at last;
Toss'd through tempestuous ſeas, the voyage o'er,
Pale we look back, and bleſs thy friendly shore.
Want of Reflection.—Melmoth.
The mind not taught to think, no useful store
To fix reflection, dreads the vacant hour,
Turn'd on itself, its num'rous wants are seen,
And all the mighty void that lies within.
