"Our lives like his in one smooth current flow, / Nor swell'd with tempest, nor too calmly slow, / Whilst he like some great sage of Rome or Greece, / Shall calm each rising doubt and speak us peace, / Correct each thought, each wayward wish controul, / And stamp with every virtue all the soul."
Of Active and Retired Life, An Epistle
At least 10 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1735, 1748, 1751, 1755 1758, 1765, 1766, 1775, 1782).<br>
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See <u>Of Active and Retired Life, An Epistle.</u> (London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1735). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T42091">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=CB132816259&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from Robert Dodsley's <u>A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands</u> (London: Printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763. &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004887768.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;