This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1758 edition. Excerpt: ...POEM. By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq; Res est fevera vcluptas.. LD Chiron to his pupil thus began, When he beheld him rip'ning into man. "Accomplished youth! well worthy of my pains, "You now are free, and guide yourself the reins: "Yet hear, Achilles, hear, before we part, "A sew short precepts from a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1758 edition. Excerpt: ...POEM. By Hildebrand Jacob, Esq; Res est fevera vcluptas.. LD Chiron to his pupil thus began, When he beheld him rip'ning into man. "Accomplished youth! well worthy of my pains, "You now are free, and guide yourself the reins: "Yet hear, Achilles, hear, before we part, "A sew short precepts from a faithful heart. '"What "What tho' the gods a Nestor's age deny?.j "Let management a longer lise supply, "And learn, at least, to live, before you die. "A little tract, well till'd, more prosit yields ' Than realms of wild, uncultivated sields. "'Tis not from lengtli of years our pleasures flow, "Nor to the gods alone our bliss we owe, "Our happiness, and pain depend on us: "Man's his own good, or evil genius. "Great ills by art we lighten, or remove, "And art our meanest pleasures may improve: "Much to ourselves is due, tho' much to Jove. "Think not, young prince, your elevated state, "Birth, honours, or the empty name of great, "Can six your joys; they're ill secur'd, unless "You know yourself to form your happiness, ." Which in the shepherd's humble hut is found, "While palaces with discord still resound. "Fortune to industry is ever kind, "And, tho' by the blind vulgar painted blind, "Is still more equal than the crowd suppose, "Who judge of happiness by outward shows; "She smiles on all conditions, each may be "A man of pleasure in his own degree. "Yet sew with art their happiness pursue, "Tho' all mankind have happiness in view, "And ev'ry sense seems made by nature's skill "For giving pleasure and avoiding ill. "Nature "Nature oar common mother has been kind, "And...
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