• [Lord Bolingbroke]
    From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV.
      COME then, my friend! my genius! come along;
    O master of the poet, and the song!
    And while the muse now stoops, or now ascends,
    To man’s low passions, or their glorious ends,
    Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise,
    To fall with dignity, with temper rise;
    Formed by thy...