20. Self-love and Truth incompatible 21. The Love of God, the End of Life. 27. The Secrets of Divine Love are to be kept 28. The Viciffitudes experienced in the Christian Life The Cottager and his Landlord. A Fable. To Chriftina, Queen of Sweden, with Cromwell's Picture On the Death of the Vice-Chancellor, a Physician On the Platonic Idea as it was understood by Aristotle To Salfillus, a Roman Poet, much indisposed To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis of Villa On the Death of Damon TRANSLATIONS OF MILTON'S ITALIAN POEMS. Reciprocal Kindness, the primary Law of Nature. 479 THE TASK. ADVERTISEMENT. HE hiftory of the following production is briefly this: A lady, fond of blank verse, demanded a poem of that kind from the Author, and gave him the Sofa for a fubject. He obeyed; and having much leifure, connected another subject with it; and, pursuing the train of thought to which his fituation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length, instead of the trifle which he at first intended, a ferious affair-a Volume. In the Poem on the subject of Education he would be very forry to ftand fufpected of having aimed his cenfure at any particular school. His objections are fuch as naturally apply themselves to schools in general. If there were not, as for the most part there is, wilful neglect in those who manage them, and an omiffion even of fuch difcipline as they are susceptible of, the objects are yet too numerous for minute attention; and the aching hearts of ten thousand parents, mourning under the bitterest of all disappointments, attest the truth of the allegation. His quarrel therefore is with the mischief at large, and not with any particular inftance of it. |