...genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower; Annual for me the grape, the rose, renew But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend, \Vhen earthquakes swallow, or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep ? "...

...waft me, suns to light me rise ; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies." 07 JtEASON AND INSTINCT. But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep ? "No," 'tis replied, "the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws ; Th' exceptions...

...MILTON. My hopes all flat, nature within me seems, In all her functions, weary of herself. MILTON. But errs not nature from this gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths descend ? POPE. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night ; God said, Let Newton be; and all was light. POPE....

...thousand springs Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise ; My footstool Earth, my canopy Ihc skies." ast and lempesi* >n\ • • : Towns to one grave, whole nations lo ihe deep * " No," 'tis replied, " the first...

...meaning." Warton gives, as a specimen of this power, the lines : — But errs not nature from thia gracious end From burning suns when livid deaths descend,...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep ? And Mr. Pattison reinforces the criticism by quoting Voltaire's feeble imitation : — Qnand des...

...me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies." But errs not Nature from this gracious end. Prom burning suns when livid deaths descend. When earthquakes...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? "No" ('tis replied), "the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws: Th' exceptions...

...earth, flfr canopy the skies." But errs not Na^^^J^n this gracious end, From burning sunsl^^^^ivid deaths descend. When earthquakes swallow, or when...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep ? ^ « No (> ('tis replied), « the first Almighty Cause Acts not by partial, but by general laws :...

...foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.' But errs not Nature from this gracious end, From burning ^uns when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow,...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? 'No ('tis replied) the first Alri^hty Cause Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws ; Th' exceptions...

...a slave, the next a deity. VIII. IX. But errs not nature from this gracious end, From burning SUDS when livid deaths descend, When earthquakes swallow,...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep ? X. As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine, as of man's desires ; As...

...suns to light me rise ; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies." 140 But errs not Nature from his gracious end, From burning suns when livid deaths...sweep Towns to one grave, whole nations to the deep? "No, ('t is reply'd) the first Almighty Cause 145 Acts not by partial, but by gen'ral laws; Th' exceptions...