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 With firm but pliant virtue, forward still To urge his course. Him for the studious shade Kind Nature form'd, deep, comprehensive, clear, Exact, and elegant; in one rich soul, Plato, the Stagyrite, and Tully join'd. The great deliverer he! who from the gloom Of cloister'd monks, and jargon-teaching schools, Led forth the true philosophy, there long Held in the magic chain of word and forms, And definitions void: he led her forth, Daughter of ! that, slow-ascending still, Investigating sure the chain of things, With radiant finger points to Heaven again. The generous Author:Anthony Ashley Cooper thine, the friend of Man; Who scann'd his Nature with a brother's eye, His weakness prompt to shade, to raise his aim, To touch the finer movements of the mind, And with the moral beauty charm the heart. Why need I name thy Author:Robert Boyle (1627-1691), whose pious search Amid the dark recesses of his works, The great sought? and why thy Author:John Locke, Who made the whole internal world his own? Let Author:Isaac Newton, pure Intelligence, whom To mortals lent, to trace his boundless works From laws sublimely simple, speak thy fame In all philosophy. For lofty sense, Creative fancy, and inspection keen Thro' the deep windings of the human heart Is not wild Author:William Shakespeare (1564-1616) thine and Nature's boast? Is not each great, each amiable Muse Of classic ages in thy Author:John Milton met? A genius universal as his theme, Astonishing as chaos, as the bloom Of blowing Eden fair, as heaven sublime. Nor