Note. To give it then a tongue. To cause time to speak to us!
Here teems with revolutions every hour.
Note. Here, &c. On this earth every hour teems with revolutions!
I would not damp, but to secure, thy joys.
Note. But to secure, &c. But with a view to secure thy joys!
No moment, but in purchase of its worth.
Note. Of its worth: Of something equally valuable!
Nature, in zeal for human amity.
Note. In zeal for human amity: In the exercise of zeal for encouraging human friendship!
And so on through all the book—scarcely any thing but these miserable puerilities. There cannot be a child in the world to whom the poet's meaning would not be as plain from the text, as from such notes. In other cases, where the author is perfectly plain to nearly the meanest apprehensions, Mr. Boyd himself cannot understand him; for instance: