for with thee comes
The guide, the guardian of their majestic rites
Wise Order and where Order deigns to come
Her sister Liberty will not be far.
(138 foll.)
The same lavish use of abstractions is seen, not only in the philosophic poetry proper, but also in other works, which might perhaps have been expected to escape the contagion. Charles Churchill (1731-1764), if we set aside Johnson and Canning, may be regarded as representing eighteenth century satire in its decline, after the great figures of Pope and Swift have disappeared from the scene, and among the causes which prevent his verse from having but little of the fiery force and sting of the great masters of satire is that, instead of the strongly depicted, individual types of Pope, for example, we are given a heterogeneous collection of human virtues, vices, and characteristics, most often in the form of mere abstractions, sometimes personified into stiff, mechanical figures.[202] Only once has Churchill attempted anything novel in the way of personification, and this in humorous vein, when he describes the social virtues:
With belly round and full fat face,
Which on the house reflected grace,
Full of good fare and honest glee,
The steward Hospitality.