The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / The Rambler, Volume II

WITHERS. In Westm

man kind. O! born to arms! O! worth in youth approv'd! O! soft humanity in age belov'd

idst corruption, luxury and rage, Still leave some ancient virtues to our age: Nor

commonplaces, though somewhat diversified, by min

ldom succeeds in our language; and, I think, it may be observed, that

em; there is yet something of the common cant of superficial satirists, who suppose that the insincerity of

should be unwilling to lose the two next lines, which yet are dearly