How faint and tedious, fing, what, piercing deep, Familiar known, like light to every eye. 385 Oh THOU to whom the Muses owe their flame; Who bid'ft, beneath the pole, Parnaffus rife, And Hippocrene flow; with thy bold ease, 391 The stricking force, the lightning of thy thought, 395 And thy strong phrase, that rolls profound, and clear; The CONTENTS of PART II. IBERTY traced from the pafloral ages, and the government; to Ver. 47. The feveral establishments of LIBERTY, in EGYPT, PERSIA, PHOENICIA, PALESTINE, lightly touch'd upon, down to her great eftablishment in GREECE; to Ver. 91. Geographical defcription of GREECE; to Ver. 113. SPARTA, and ATHENS, the two principal states of GREECE, defcribed; to Ver. 164. Influence of LIBERTY over all the Grecian States; with regard to their Government, their politeness, their Virtues, their Arts and Sciences. The vaft fuperiority it gave them, in point of force and bravery, over the Perfians, exemplified by the action of Thermopylae, the battle of Marathon, and the retreat of the Ten Thoufand. Its full exertion, and most beautiful effects in ATHENS; to Ver. 216. LIBERTY the fource of free philofophy. The various fchools which took their rife from SOCRATES; to Ver. 257. Enumeration of FINE ARTS: Eloquence, Poetry, Mufic, Sculpture, Painting, and Architecture; the effects of LIBERTY in GREECE, and brought to their utmost perfection there; to Ver. 381. Transition to the modern State of GRECE; to Ver. 411. Why LIBERTY declined, and was at laft entirely lost among the GREEKS; ta Ver. 472. Concluding Reflection. LIBERTY. PART II. T HUS spoke the GODDESS of the fearless eye, And at her voice, renew'd, the vifion rofe. First, in the dawn of time, with eastern fwains, In woods, and tents, and cottages, I liv'd ; And other arts with them of finer aim; At first, on brutes alope the rustic war 20 For |