300 GOD-PROVIDENCE. 6. O, all-preparing Providence divine!. In thy large book what secrets are enroll'd? 7. Go, mark the matchless working of the Power 8. Yes, thou art ever present, Power Divine! DRAYTON. COWPER. 9. The Lord! how tender is his tear! HANNAH MORE. His justice how august! Hence all her fears my soul derives, There anchors all her trust! 10. O Thou! who dry'st the mourner's tear, How dark this world would be, 11. If, when deceiv'd and wounded here, Who spoke creation into birth, DR. DARWIN. MOORE. Arch'd the broad heavens, and spread the rolling earth; And bade the seasons in their circles run; CHARLES SPRAGUE. 12. Below, above, o'er all he dares to rove, In all finds God, and finds that God all love. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 13. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. GOLD-WEALTH, &c. 1. Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More than quick words, do move a woman's mind. But lures the pirate, and corrupts the friend; But bribes a Senate, and a land's betray'd. POPE'S Moral Essays. 5. Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace, If not, by any means get wealth and place. POPE'S Moral Essays. 6. To whom can riches give repute or trust, Content, or pleasure, but the good and just? POPE'S Essay on Man. 302 GOLD-WEALTH, &c. 7. Judges and Senates have been bought for gold; 8. Esteem and love were never to be sold. POPE'S Essay on Man. Their much-lov'd wealth imparts GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 9. Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world; 10. To purchase heaven has gold the power? DECKER. DR. JOHNSON. 11. For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws; 12. Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? 13. Because its blessings are abus'd, Must gold be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd? DR. JOHNSON. YOUNG. GAY's Fables. 14. Oh, bane of man! seducing cheat! : 15. Thus, when the villain crams his chest, 16. If happiness on wealth were built, Rich rogues might comfort find in guilt. 17. Why lose we life in anxious cares, GAY's Fables. GAY'S Fubles. GAY'S Fables. GAY'S Fables. 18. Abundance is a blessing to the wise; CUMBERLAND'S Menander. 304 GOLD-WEALTH, &c. 19. Still to be rich is still to be unhappy; Still to collect new lawsuits, new vexations, CUMBERLAND's Philemon. 20. Thou more than stone of the philosopher! 21. Had I but pearls of price-did golden pills Of hoarded wealth swell in my treasury, Easy I'd win the fawning flatterer's smiles, And bend the sturdiest stoic's iron knee. 22. Think'st thou the man, whose mansions hold The worldling's pride, the miser's gold, Obtains a richer prize Than he, who in his cot at rest And bears the earnest in his breast Of treasures in the skies? BYRON. A. A. LOCKE. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. 23. Much wealth brings want, that hunger of the heart, Which comes when nature man deserts for art. 24. I would never kneel at a gilded shrine, I would never fetter this heart of mine, The New Timon. MRS. L. P. SMITH. |