blessed,' The joy is unequalled, if merit receives its final reward, i.e. immortality, and if merit loses this reward and is annihilated, it is attended with, or suffers, no pain. Merit is free from satiety, however much it is blessed, and merit is really happier as it is distressed with the woes of others. 323. Never elated. Mr. Ruskin praises highly the sentiment of this and the following verse. Mr. Leslie Stephen says, "It is impressive, but it is quite impossible to discover by the rules. of grammatical construction who is to be never elated and depressed. No one is to be. Pope says that merit is. 330. The bad, the good, viz., the bad man, the good man. 332. Almost a hackneyed quotation. 336. But touches, which does not touch. 347. other kind, the animal creation, other than mankind. The argument is that man has an instinct for immortality. 350. "His greatest virtue" is benevolence; "his greatest bliss," the hope of a happy eternity. Nature connects the two, for the bliss depends on the virtue. 364. This famous illustration was before used by Chaucer, House of Fame, ii. 280: "if that thou Throwe on water now a stoon, Wel wost thou, hit will make anoon A litel roundel as a cercle, Paraventure brood as a covercle; And right anoon thou shalt see weel, That wheel wol cause another wheel, And that the thridde, and so forth, brother, Every cercle causing other Wyder than himselve was. Pope had modernized this very poem of Chaucer's. In his version the passage is 436-441. 373. my friend. Bolingbroke. 378. It is a question whether Bolingbroke deserves this praise. 380. An often quoted line. 388. An unfulfilled prophecy. 391. tuneful art, poetry. MACMILLAN'S ENGLISH CLASSICS. The following Volumes, Globe Svo, are ready or in preparation. ADDISON-SELECTIONS FROM THE SPECTATOR. By K. DEIGHTON. 2s. 6d. ADDISON and STEELE-COVERLEY PAPERS FROM THE SPectator. By K. DEIGHTON. 1s. 9d. ARNOLD-SELECTIONS. By G. C. MACAULAY. 2s. 6d. BACON ESSAYS. By F. G. SELBY, M.A. 3s.; sewed, 2s. 6d. THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING. Book I., 2s. Book II., 4s. 6d. By F. G. SELBY, M.A. BUNYAN-PILGRIM'S PROGRESS IN MODERN ENGLISH. By JOHN MORRISON, M. A. 1s. 9d.; sewed, 1s. 6d. BURKE REFLECTIONS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By F. G. SELBY, -SPEECH ON AMERICAN TAXATION; SPEECH ON CONCILIATION WITH SELBY, M.A. 3s. 6d. By F. G BYRON.-CHILDE HAROLD. By EDWARD E. MORRIS, M.A. Cantos I.-II., 1s. 9d.; III.-IV., 1s. 9d. CAMPBELL SELECTIONS. By W. T. WEBB, M.A. [In Press. CHAUCER-SELECTIONS FROM CANTERBURY TALES. By H. CORSON. 48. 6d. CHOSEN ENGLISH-Selections from Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Lamb, and Scott. With short biographies and notes by A. ELLIS, B.A. 2s. 6d. COWPER-THE TASK. Book IV. By W. T. WEBB, M.A. Sewed, 1s. -THE TASK. Book V. 2s. 6d. -SELECTIONS FROM LETTERS. By W. T. WEBB, M.A. 2s. 6d. SHORTER POEMS. By W. T. WEBB, M. A. DRYDEN-SELECT SATIRES-ABSALOM ANDACHITOPHEL; THE MEDAL; MAC FLECKNOE. By J. CHURTON COLLINS, M.A. 1s. 9d. GOLDSMITH-THE TRAVELLER and THE DESERTED VILLAGE. By ARTHUR BARRETT, B.A. 1s. 9d. THE TRAVELLER and THE DESERTED VILLAGE, separately, 1s. each, sewed. -VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. By MICHAEL MACMILLAN, B.A. 2s. 6d. GRAY-POEMS. BY JOHN BRADSHAW, LL.D. 1s. 9d. HELPS-ESSAYS WRITTEN IN THE INTERVALS OF BUSINESS. By K. DEIGHTON. -LIFE OF DRYDEN. By P. PETERSON. By 1s. 9d. In the Press. In the Press. LAMB-THE ESSAYS OF ELIA. By N. L. HALLWARD, M.A., and S. C. HILL, B.A. 3s.; sewed, 2s. 6d. LONGFELLOW-COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH. By W. ELLIOT, M.A. 1s. MACAULAY-LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME. Edited by W. T. WEBB, M. A. 1s. 9d. ESSAY ON ADDISON. By J. W. HALES, M. A. ESSAY ON WARREN HASTINGS. By K. DEIGHTON. 2s. 6d. 2s. ESSAY ON BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. By R. F. WINCH, M.A. 2s. 6d. MALORY-MORTE D'ARTHUR. MILTON-PARADISE LOST, MACMILLAN, B. A. 1s. 9d. sewed, 1s. each. By A. T. MARTIN, M.A. 2s. 6d. -L'ALLEGRO, IL PENSEROSO, LYCIDAS, ARCADES, SONNETS, &C. COMUS. By W. BELL, M.A. 1s. 3d.; sewed, 1s. SAMSON AGONISTES. By H. M. PERCIVAL, M. A. 2s. -TRACTATE OF EDUCATION. By E. E. MORRIS, M.A. 1s. 9d. PALGRAVE-GOLDEN TREASURY OF SONGS AND LYRICS. Book |