Wit And Judgment Often Are At Strife.

Some Place The Bliss In Action, Some In Ease, Those Call It Pleasure, And Contentment These.

Our Passions Are Like Convulsion Fits, Which, Though They Make Us Stronger For A Time, Leave Us The Weaker Ever After.

Envy Will Merit, As Its Shade, Pursue

The Pure And Noble, The Graceful And Dignified, Simplicity Of Language Is Nowhere In Such Perfection As In The Scriptures And Homer. The Whole Book Of Job, With Regard Both To Sublimity Of Thought And Morality, Exceeds, Beyond All Comparison, The Most Noble Parts Of Homer.

For I, Who Hold Sage Homer's Rule The Best, Welcome The Coming, Speed The Going Guest.