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"How fading and insipid do all objects accost us, that are not conveyed in the vehicle of delusion! How shrunk is every thing as it appears in the glass of nature! so that if it were not for the assistance of artificial mediums, false lights, refracted angles, varnish, and tinsel, there would be a mighty level in the felicity, and enjoyments of mortal men."—Tale of a Tub, Sect. IX.
P. 203. l. 15.But kind were the powers, who, our quiet to keepe,
Sent love to relieve us, and lull us asleepe.
So Lord Rochester, in those well-known lines:
Love, the most generous passion of the mind,
The surest refuge innocence can find;
The safe director of unguarded youth,
Fraught with kind wishes, and secured by truth:
That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown,
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.
The surest refuge innocence can find;
The safe director of unguarded youth,
Fraught with kind wishes, and secured by truth:
That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown,
To make the nauseous draught of life go down.
