LINES. _Written by a Traveller at Czarco-zelo under the Bust of a certain Orator, once placed between those of Demosthenes and Cicero._ I. THE GRECIAN Orator of old, With scorn rejected PHILIP’S laws, Indignant spurn’d at foreign gold, And triumph’d in his country’s cause. II. A foe to every wild extreme, ’Mid civil storms, the Roman Sage Repress’d Ambition’s frantic scheme, And check’d the madding people’s rage. III. Their country’s peace, and wealth and fame, With patriot zeal their labours sought, And Rome’s or Athens’ honoured name Inspired and govern’d every thought. IV. Who now, in this presumptuous hour, Aspires to share the Athenian’s praise? —The advocate of foreign power, The Æschines of later days. V. What chosen name to Tully’s join’d, Is thus announced to distant climes? —Behold, to lasting shame consign’d, The _Catiline_ of modern times![120] [Illustration] No. XV. Feb. 19, 1798. THE PROGRESS OF MAN.[121] =A Didactic Poem,= IN FORTY CANTOS, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY: CHIEFLY OF A PHILOSOPHICAL TENDENCY. DEDICATED TO R. P. KNIGHT, ESQ. CANTO FIRST.