. Poems . ade of learned ease, *Tho skilled alike to dazzle and to please;Tho each gay scene be searched with anxious thy shut door be passed without a sigh. If, when this roof shall know thy friend no , formed like thee, should once, like thee, explore;Invoke the lares of his loved his lone walks imprint with pilgrim-feet;Then be it said, (as, vain of better grey domestic prompts the partial praise) Unknown he lived, unenvied, not unblest;Reason his guide, and Happiness his the clear mirror of his moral trace the manners of a purer age.
. Poems . ade of learned ease, *Tho skilled alike to dazzle and to please;Tho each gay scene be searched with anxious thy shut door be passed without a sigh. If, when this roof shall know thy friend no , formed like thee, should once, like thee, explore;Invoke the lares of his loved his lone walks imprint with pilgrim-feet;Then be it said, (as, vain of better grey domestic prompts the partial praise) Unknown he lived, unenvied, not unblest;Reason his guide, and Happiness his the clear mirror of his moral trace the manners of a purer age. * Iniiocuas amo delicias doctamcuu^ qiiictoni. 128 His soul, with thirst of genuine glory fraught,Scorned the false lustre of licentious thought.—One fair asylum from the world he knew,One chosen seat, that charms with various view!Who boasts of more (believe the serious strain)Sighs for a home, and sighs, alas ! in each he roves, the tenant of a day,yVnd, with the swallow, wings the year away!. NOTES. p. 120, 1. 21. Oft oer the vicad, at pleasing distance, passCosmo of Medicis took most pleasure in his Apen-nine villa, because all that he commanded from itswindows was exclusively his own. How iinlike thewise Athenian, who, when he had a farm to sell, di-rected the crier to proclaim, as its best recommenda-tion, that it had a good neighbourhood ! Plut. in Vit. Themist. P. 121, 1. 3. And through the various year, the various day,Horace commends the house, longos quae pro-spicit agros. Distant views contain the greatestvariety, both in themselves, and in their accidentalvariations. P. 122, 1. change of scene, small space his home requires,Many a great man, in passing througli the apart-ments of his palace, has made the melancholy reflec-tion of the venerable Cosmo: Questa e troppo grancasa ti si poca famiglia. BIach. 1st Fior. lib. vii. Parva, sed apta mihi, was Ariostos inscriptionover his door in Ferrara; and who can wish to say s 130 more ? I confess, says
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