CONFU SION. A nymph of quality admires our knight. Who drinks, whores, fights, and in a duel dies. XXXVII. XXXVII. ANXIETY. RESOLUTION. Cato fitting in a thoughtful posture. In his hand Plato's book on the immortality of the foul. A drawn fword on the table by him. After a long pause, he lays down the book, and fpeaks. T must be fo-Plato, thou reafon'st well- Or whence this fecret dread, and inward horror 'Tis Heav'n itself that points out an Hereafter, DEEP CONTEMPL. COMFORT. DESIRE. FEAR. AwE. dreadful t thought! * SATISF. † APPRE. Through what variety of untry'd being, The a" this fond defire," may be spoken with the right band laid on the breaft. b " Eternity!-thou pleafing," &c. requires an eye fixed, with profound thoughtfulness, on one point, throughout this line. CURIOSITY. ANXIETY. * COUR. + VENE. SATISFAC. • COUR. FIRMNESS. APPRI. NOBLE. PRIDE. TRIUMPH. it. The wide, th' unbounded profpect lies before me; Through all her works-He must delight in And that, which He delights in, must be happy. But when!-or where!--- This world was made for Cafar. I'm weary of conjectures--- This must end them. e f Unburt "My death, my life," &c. Long paufes between, and pointing, or looking at the fword in pronouncing "my "death,” and at the book in pronouncing "my life," and fo in my bane, and antidote," and in the two following lines. "The foul, &c. may be pronounced with the right hand laid upon the breaft. "The stars," &c. may be fpoken with the eyes raifed toward heaven, and the arms moderately spread. thoufhalt flourish," &c. The right hand upon the breast. * Unburt amidst the war of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Satan's fpeech to Death ftopping his paffage through the gate of Hell; with the answer. [Milt. PARAD. Lost, B. II. v. 681.] WHENCE, and what art thou, execrable shape! QUEST. That dar'ft, though grim and terrible, ad vance Thy mifcreated front athwart my way with ANGER. CONF. To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, RESOL. To whom the goblin full of wrath reply'd. ING. ANGER. " then « Unbroken, 8 « Unhurt," &c. The arms spread again as before. h" the cru," &c. The hands brought together with force. « Retire;" is to be spoken as a whole fentence, and with the greatest force of threatening. See Anger, page 23. CONTEMPT with ANGER. PRIDE. "Unbroken, and in proud, rebellious arms Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment, THREATEN-"Falfe fugitive, and to thy Speed add wings, "Left with a whip of fcorpions I pursue ING. "Thy ling'ring, or with one stroke of this dart k" and to thy speed," &c. to be spoken quick. |