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are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs. Aristotle says, that should a man live under ground, and there converse with works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the works of such a being as we define God to be. The psalmist has very beautiful strokes of poetry to this purpose in that exalted strain, 'The heavens declare the glory of God: and the firma10 ment sheweth his handy-work. One day telleth another: and one night certifieth another. There is neither speech nor language: but their voices are heard among them. Their sound is gone out into all the lands: and their words unto the ends of the world.' As such a bold and sublime manner of thinking furnished very noble matter for an ode, the reader may see it wrought into the following one.

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What though nor real voice nor sound
Amid their radiant orbs be found?

In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
For ever singing, as they shine,

'The hand that made us is divine.'--C.

No. 489. Thanksgiving after Travel.

Βαθυρρείταο μέγα σθένος Ωκεανοῖο.—Hom.

[The great might of the deep-flowing Ocean stream.]

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If yet, while pardon may be found,
And mercy may be sought,

My heart with inward horror shrinks,
And trembles at the thought;

When thou, O Lord, shalt stand disclosed,

In majesty severe,

And sit in judgment on my soul,

Oh how shall I appear!

But thou hast told the troubled mind,
Who does her sins lament,

The timely tribute of her tears
Shall endless woe prevent.

Then see the sorrows of my heart,
Ere yet it be too late;

And hear my Saviour's dying groans,
To give those sorrows weight.

For never shall my soul despair
Her pardon to procure,

Who knows thine only Son has died
To make her pardon sure.-0.

NOTES.

I.

THE SPECTATOR CLUB.

P. 2, 1. 37. This celebrated coffee-house stood at the south end of Bow Street, Covent Garden. In the preceding generation it was rather the rendezvous of wits than of politicians. Dryden made it his habitual resort, both winter and summer; and here probably he was seen by Pope, then a boy of twelve years, in the last year of his life, 1700. Child's was in St. Paul's Churchyard; it was much resorted to by the clergy, and persons of clerical politics. The St. James's stood at the end of Pall Mall, near to what is now 87 St. James's Street; it was an exclusively Whig house. The Grecian was in Devereux Court, Strand; it existed as a tavern till 1842. From it Isaac Bickerstaff in the Tatler undertakes to issue his disquisitions on points of learning. It was founded about 1652 by the Greek servant of an English merchant returned from the Levant, and was the first of English coffee-houses. Jonathan's, in Change Alley, was frequented by stock-jobbers. (Wills' Sir Roger de Coverley.)

P. 3, 1. 13. The character and ways of the Spectator' seem to be those of Addison himself, humorously exaggerated. With any mixture of strangers,' says Pope (Spence's Anecdotes), and sometimes only with one, he seemed to preserve his dignity much, with a stiff sort of silence.' Distinguishing between his own powers in conversation and in writing, Addison reported to have said, 'I have only ninepence in my pocket, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.' See Boswell's Johnson, iii. 302 (Oxford ed.). P. 4, 1. 26. A small street off Aldersgate Street, City.

No. 2. This number was written by Steele, but as it contains the original sketches of the characters and antecedents of the different members of the Spectator Club, it is always printed along with Addison's papers. Bishop Hurd says, 'The characters were concerted with Mr. Addison; and the draught of them, in this paper, I supposed touched by him.'

P. 5, 1. 15. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, son of the Lord Wilmot who figured as a distinguished Royalist captain in the Civil War, was one of Charles II's favourite courtiers. He ran into every excess, and died before he was forty, but repented of his errors on his death-bed, according to the narrative of Gilbert Burnet, who was called in to see him shortly before he died,

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