There is a flower call'd Love in Idleness,' I will not make his great description less, I touch a single leaf where he is warden :- Your mer of business are not apt to express Much passion, since the merchant-ship the Argo Convey'd Medea as her supercargo. LXXVII. 'Beatus ille procul!' from 'negotiis,'t Saith Horace: the great little poet's wrong; * See 'La Nouvelle Heloise," † Hor. Epod. Od. ii. LXXXVIII. Oh Wilberforce! thou man of black renown, Which you should perpetrate some summer's LXXXIII. Shut up the bald-coot bully Alexander! In anything, however she might flatter LXXXIX. But when it was, she had that lurking demon X. Fair Adeline, the more ingenuous XI. Some parts of Juan's history, which Rumour, That live-gazette, had scatter'd, to disfigure, She had heard; but women hear with more good humour Such aberrations, than we men of rigour : Besides, his conduct since in England grew more Strict, and his mind assumed a manlier vigour; Because he had, like Alcibiades, The art of living in all climes with ease. XII. His manner was perhaps the more seductive, XIII. They are wrong-that's not the way to set about it; As, if they told the truth, could well be shown. But, right or wrong, Don Juan was without it: In fact, his manner was his own alone. Sincere he was-at least you could not doubt it, In listening merely to his voice's tone. The devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. XIV. By nature soft, his whole address held off But modesty's at times its own reward, tion. XV. Serene, accomplish'd, cheerful, but not loud; Yet ne'er betraying this in conversation; Proud with the proud, yet courteously proud, So as to make them feel he knew his station And theirs-without a struggle for priority, He neither brook'd nor claim'd superiority As it is necessary in these times to avoid ambiguity, I sav that I mean by Diviner still, Christ. If ever God was mad. or man God,-He was both. I never arraigned His creed the use, or abuse, made of it. Mr Canning one day qu Christianity to sanction negro slavery, and Mr Wilberforce had little to say in reply. And was Christ crucified that black a might be scourged? If so, He had better been born a Ma latto, to give both colours an equal chance of freedom, or least salvation. [Thou finely would'st say all! Say something ill if thou |