"Tasteless of all that virtue gives to please, / For thought too active, and too mad for ease, / From wish to wish in life's mad vortex toss'd, / For ever struggling, and for ever lost; / He scorns religion, though her seraphs call, / And lives in rapture, or not lives at all."
The Regulation of the Passions, The Source of Human Happiness. A Moral Essay.
"Spoken at the Anniversary Visitation of the Tunbridge School, 1755." At least 5 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1771, 1790, 1795, 1800).<br>
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See <u>Poems, by the Rev. Mr. Cawthorn. Late Master of Tunbridge School.</u> (London: Printed by W. Woodfall: and sold by S. Bladon, 1771). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T2143">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW110607857&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce</u> (Chiswick: C. Whittinham, 1822). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=-CBAAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;