Date: 1735, 1763

"Were high ambition still the power confess'd / That rul'd with equal sway in every breast, / Say where the glories of the sacred nine?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Shall reason's voice impartial e'er condemn / The glorious purpose of so wise an aim?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Each publick passion bound to endless frost, / Each deed of social worth for ever lost."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Far as th' Almighty stretch'd his utmost line, / He pierc'd in thought, and view'd the vast design."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Each shapely offspring of her feeble thought, / A darker veil o'er genuine science brought; / Still stubborn facts o'erthrew their fruitless toil; / For truth and fiction who shall reconcile?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Order without us, what imports it seen, / If all is restless anarchy within?"

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"In fair proportion here describ'd we trace / Each mental beauty, and each moral grace; / Each useful passion taught, its tone design'd / In the nice concord of a well-tun'd mind."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Does mean self-love contract each social aim? / Here publick transports shall thy soul inflame."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"The mind not taught to think, no useful store / To fix reflection, dreads the vacant hour."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)

Date: 1735, 1763

"Turn'd on its self its num'rous wants are seen, / And all the mighty void that lies within / Yet cannot wisdom stamp our joys complete; / 'Tis conscious virtue crowns the blest retreat."

— Melmoth, William, the younger (bap. 1710, d. 1799)