4'J6 Mr. Davis on the Poetry of tJie Chinese. 



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Vain are the crafty villain's wiles, most vain. 

 Often, when vaunted most — (lisjEfrace, defeat. 

 Rush headlong; in from quarters little fear'd' 

 Hearken to counsel, friend, and when secure 

 You deem yourself from mortals' purblind eyes. 

 Think there's a heaven above, that surveys all !" 



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" Human events in quick vicissitude 



Succeed each other: but true friendship's ties 



Gain strenn-th from time ! Ask ye why sovereign heav'n 



Thus vexes mortals? — 'Tis to try their hearts 



Like metal in the fiery crucible." 



Satire, viewed as a means of recommending virtue by discrediting vice, 

 cannot be said to exist in any regular form, or to constitute a particular 

 branch of literature. Some of the ancient pieces in the Sheeking have 

 been considered as levelled at persons existing when they were composed; 

 but they have no more claim on this account to the name of satires, than 

 Horace's ode " In Maevium." There is no country, at the same time, in 

 which anonymous lampoons, and similar vehicles of invective or ridicule, 

 are more common. They form one of the most ordinary outlets for the 

 ebullitions of public feeling : and must be considered, by every person who 



