11. Were that a just return? Were that Roman magnanimity?
12. Well; how he may do his work, whether he do it right or wrong, or do it at all, is a point which no man in the world has taken the pains to think of.
13. He is, let him live where else he like, in what pomps and prosperities he like, no literary man.
14. Could we one day complete the immense figure which these flagrant points compose!
15. "Oh, then, my dear madam," cried he, "tell me where I may find my poor, ruined, but repentant child."
16.
That sheaf of darts, will it not fall unbound,
Except, disrobed of thy vain earthly vaunt,
Thou bring it to be blessed where saints and angels haunt?
17.
Forget thyself to marble, till
With a sad leaden downward cast
Thou fix them on the earth as fast.
18.