excites us to gain the favour of GOD; the former to gain the love and
esteem of wise and good men; and both lead to the same end; for, in
framing our conceptions of the DEITY, we only ascribe to Him exalted
degrees of Wisdom and Goodness.

NOTE y.

_Yet still how sweet the soothings of his art!_

The astronomer chalking his figures on the wall, in Hogarth's view
of Bedlam, is an admirable exemplification of this idea.
See the RAKE'S PROGRESS, plate 8.

NOTE z.

_Turns but to start, and gazes but to sigh!_ The following stanzas
are said to have been written on a blank leaf of this Poem. They
present so affecting a reverse of the picture, that I cannot resist
the opportunity of introducing them here.

Pleasures of Memory!--oh supremely blest,
And justly proud beyond a Poet's praise;
If the pure confines of thy tranquil breast
Contain, indeed, the subject of thy lays!
By me how envied!--for to me,
The herald still of misery,
Memory makes her influence known
By sighs, and tears, and grief alone:
I greet her as the fiend, to whom belong
The vulture's ravening beak, the raven's funeral song.