214 ECHO-ECSTASY - TRANSPORT. ECHO. And ever-wakeful Echo here doth dwell, And softly glides, unseen, from hill to hill; THEODORE S. FAY ECSTASY-TRANSPORT. My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. SHAKSPEARE. O'ercome with wonder, and oppress'd with joy :- LILO. For joy like this, death were a cheap exchange. Tune your harps, Ye angels, to that sound; and thou, my heart, She bids me hope! and, in that charming word, DRYDEN LORD LYTTLETON. My joy, my best belov'd, my only wish! ADDISON. EDUCATION - WISDOM &c. 215 What sweet delirium o'er his bosom stole ! BEATTIE'S Minstrel No word was spoken, all was feeling- One hour of such bliss is a life ere it closes LEVI FRISBIE 'Tis one drop of fragrance from thousands of roses. P. M. WETMORE. Why did my parents send me to the schools, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen Will is the prince, and Wit the counsellor, And, when Wit is resolv'd, Will lends her power, DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. Learning by study must be won; 'T was ne'er entail'd from sire to son. For what is truth and knowledge, but a kind GAY's Fables, Of wantonness and luxury of the mind; A greediness and gluttony of the brain, That longs to eat forbidden fruit again; And grows more desperate, like the worst diseases, Besides 't is known he could speak Greek BUTLER BUTLER'S Hudibras 216 EDUCATION - WISDOM, &c. He was in logic a great critic, A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, BUTLER'S Hudibras BUTLER'S Hudibras. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. For just experience tells in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. Mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth. Superior beings, when of late they saw POPE'S Essay on Man. -Mingles with the friendly bowl The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. POPE Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies. POPE A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring; POPE'S Essay on Criticism. EDUCATION - WISDOM, &c. True wit is nature to advantage drest, That oft was thought, but ne'er so well exprest, POPE'S Essay on Criticism. What is it to be wise? "Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own. 217 POPE'S Essay on Man. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; O'er nature's laws God cast the veil of night, РОРЕ. His very name a title-page, and next AARON HILL. WOODBRIDGE. He learn'd the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, The languages-especially the dead, BYRON'S Don Juan. The sciences and most of all the abstruse, The arts-at least all such as could be said To be the most remote from common use. BYRON'S Don Juan. And stoic Franklin's energetic shade, BYRON'S Age of Bronze. Sorrow is knowledge; they, who know the most, 'The tree of knowledge is not that of life. For Plato's love sublime, And all the wisdom of the Stagyrite, BYRON'S Manfred. Enrich'd and beautified his studious mind. WORDSWORTH-From the Italian. 218 EDUCATION - WISDOM, &o. For any man, with half an eye, TRUMBULL S McFingal On every point, in earnest or in jest, His judgment, and his prudence, and his wit, The wish to know-the endless thirst, Which even by quenching is awak'd, J. H. FRERE. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, CUMBERLAND's Philemon. Lur'd by its charms, he sits and learns to trace She had read CHARLES SPRAGUE. Her father's well-fill'd library with profit, And could talk charmingly; then she could sing As in the parlour. Youth it instructs, old age delights, Adorns prosperity, and when Of adverse fate we feel the blights, J N. BARKER. J. T. WATSON. |