Then does the grassy food the flock delight, Just so the Christian flock too frequent stray When fortune strews her favours in their way. Oft do they mingle in the giddy throng Where pleasure chains them with her syren song: And while loud laughter shakes the festive board, Forget themselves, their glory, and their Lord. But when these bubble joys no more abound, And adverse storms begin to gather round; Then to their duty they repentant turn And in affliction's school submission learn. - Ah mighty Shepherd! when my feet would rove In pleasure's path, forgetful of thy love; Restrain my steps 'ere they to evil lead And let thy thunders threaten o'er my head, That soon reclaim'd, I kiss the healing rod Which checks my guilt, and brings me back to God. LINES, ON SEEING THE CASTS OF MESSRS, PITT*, FOX, AND THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE, TAKEN FROM THEIR FACES WITHIN A FEW HOURS AFTER DEATH, BY MR. NOLLEKINS. (By Mr. Pratt.) YE faithful images of Death, Behold within a few short hours, From lips like those of deadly pale, We have understood that forty-two Busts of MR. PITT, from these casts, are already ordered, at one hundred guineas each; and a yet greater number of MR. Fox, and the DUCHESS, at the same price. And in each lineament is seen, Had fixed me list'ning on the spot, And who, fair DEVON, could suppose, Had e'er possessed such power to please? That long monopoliz'd the lyre; When flush'd with youth, in beauty's grace Ah! had an ampler scope been given And shall such feelings cause a foe To the prov'd friend of want and woe? No! thou pale semblance copied here, Which mine eye traces thro' a tear, There lives not one, whose eye, like mine, Will not drop incense on thy shrine. FLOWRETS OF LITERATURE. On perusing the great number of works of fancy, from which the present volume has been composed, we have often met with passages which we conceived well worthy of preservation from the oblivious fate which would await them, amidst the redundant matter with which they were enveloped. We have therefore collected a variety of elegant and beautiful sentiments from several of the new Novels, &c. which we have perused, and have classed them under the head of Flowrets of Literature, leaving it to the taste of our readers to give each passage an appropriate reference or appellation. LITERARY AND PIOUS OBSERVATIONS OF THE LATE DR. BEATTIE. His genius social as his judgment clear. MALLET. POPE'S "Essay on man" is the finest philosophical poem in the world; but it seems to me to do more honour to the imagination than to the understanding of its author; I mean its sentiments are |