122 CHILDHOOD - YOUTH. 4. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, Το 5. Gather the rose-buds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying, THOMSON'S Seasons. And that same flower that blooms to-day, 6. Something of youth I in old age approve ; HERRICK. DENHAM. 7. Intemperate youth, by sad experience found, Ends in an age imperfect and unsound. DENHAM. 8. Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, And lose the medium in the wild extreme. AARON HILL. 9. Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both. ADDISON'S Cato. 10. Happy the school-boy! did he know his bliss, His are the joys of nature, his the smile, He wipes it soon. KNOX. 11. By sports like these are all their cares beguil❜d; The sports of children satisfy the child. GOLDSMITH. 12. The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, SCOTT's Rokeby. 13. There still are many rainbows in your sky, BYRON'S Don Juan. 14. A lovely being, scarcely form'd or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. 15. BYRON'S Don Juan. Sweet be thy cradled slumbers! O'er the sea BYRON'S Childe Harold. 16. The helpless look of blooming infancy. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 17. Full swells the deep pure fountain of young life. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 18. Oh mirth and innocence! Oh milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days! BYRON'S Beppo. 19. A little curly-headed good-for-nothing, 20. The babe, BYRON'S Don Juan. Who, capable of no articulate sound, ROGERS. 21. Thine was the shout! the song! the burst of joy! 22. The young! Oh! what should wandering fancy bring, 23. It lay upon its mother's breast, a thing Bright as a dew-drop when it first descends, MRS. A. B. WELBY. 24. I sported in my tender mother's arms, 25. Oh! what a world of beauty fades away 26. Our early days!-How often back We turn on life's bewildering track DAWES' Geraldine. W. D. GALLAGHER. Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? 2. I do not think a braver gentleman, More active-valiant, or more valiant-young, То SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Could deeds my heart discover, Could valour gain your charms, I'd prove myself a lover Against a world in arms. 4. A form more active, light and strong, Old Song. queen. SCOTT. CHURCH - CLERGY, &c. 1. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 2. He could raise scruples dark and nice, And, after, solve 'em in a trice; As if divinity had catch'd The itch on purpose to be scratch'd. SHAKSPEARE. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd, His preaching much, but more his practice wrought 4. At church with meek and unaffected grace, DRYDEN. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 5. Such vast impressions did his sermons make, He always kept his flock awake. DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar. 6. I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrines and whose life That he is honest in the sacred cause. 7. Some go to church just for a walk, COWPER'S Task. CIGAR-SMOKING. 1. In mind compos'd, he sucks: thick curling clouds 2. Thy quiet spirit lulls the lab'ring brain, SOMERVILE. Lures back to thought the flights of vacant mirth ; 3. Yes, social friend, I love thee well, REV. WALTER COLTON. In learned doctors' spite; CHARLES SPRAGUE. |