214 ECHO-ECSTASY - TRANSPORT. ECHO. 1. And ever-wakeful Echo here doth dwell, And softly glides, unseen, from hill to hill; THEODORE S. FAY. ECSTASY-TRANSPORT. 1. My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up. SHAKSPEARE. 2. O'ercome with wonder, and oppress'd with joy :This vast profusion of extreme delight, Rising at once, and bursting from despair, Defies the aid of words, and mocks description. LILLO. 3. For joy like this, death were a cheap exchange. ÆSCHYLUS' Agamemnon. Ye angels, to that sound; and thou, my heart, 5. She bids me hope! and, in that charming word, Has peace and transport to my soul restor❜d. DRYDEN. LORD LYTTLETON. 6. My joy, my best belov'd, my only wish! How shall I speak the transport of my soul! ADDISON. 7. What sweet delirium o'er his bosom stole ! BEATTIE'S Minstrel. 8. No word was spoken, all was feelingThe silent transport of the heart. LEVI FRISBIE. 9. One hour of such bliss is a life ere it closes- P. M. WETMORE. EDUCATION—WISDOM-WIT, &c. 1. Why did my parents send me to the schools, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Will is the prince, and Wit the counsellor, DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 3. Learning by study must be won; 'T was ne'er entail'd from sire to son. 4. 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, And grows more desperate, like the worst diseases, 5. Besides 't is known he could speak Greek As naturally as pigs squeak. BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 216 EDUCATION-WISDOM, &c. 6. He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. 7. Learning, that cobweb of the brain, BUTLER'S Hudibras. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 8. The clouds may drop down titles and estates, Wealth may seek us--but wisdom must be sought. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. For just experience tells in every soil, That those who think must govern those who toil. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 10. Mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth. 11. Superior beings, when of late they saw 12. POPE'S Essay on Man. -Mingles with the friendly bowl The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. POPE. 13. Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies. POPE. 14. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not, the Pierian spring; POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 15. True wit is nature to advantage drest, 16. 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, POPE'S Essay on Man. 17. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, let Newton be! and all was light. 18. O'er nature's laws God cast the veil of night, Out blaz'd a Newton's soul-and all was light. 19. His very name a title-page, and next His life a commentary on the text. POPE. AARON HILL. WOODBRIDGE. 20. He learn'd the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress or―a nunnery. 21. The languages-especially the dead, BYRON'S Don Juan. The sciences-and most of all the abstruse, 22. And stoic Franklin's energetic shade, BYRON'S Don Juan. Rob'd in the lightning which his hand allay'd. BYRON'S Age of Bronze. 23. Sorrow is knowledge; they, who know the most, 24. Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, For Plato's love sublime, BYRON'S Manfred. And all the wisdom of the Stagyrite, WORDSWORTH-From the Italian. 218 EDUCATION - WISDOM, &c. 25. For any man, with half an eye, TRUMBULL'S McFingal. 26. On every point, in earnest or in jest, His judgment, and his prudence, and his wit, 27. The wish to know-the endless thirst, J. H. FRERE. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. 28. Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, And he's of men most wise, who bears them best. CUMBERLAND's Philemon. 29. Lur'd by its charms, he sits and learns to trace 30. She had read CHARLES SPRAGUE. Her father's well-fill'd library with profit, And could talk charmingly; then she could sing Yet she was knowing in all needle-work, As in the parlour. 31. Youth it instructs, old age delights, Of adverse fate we feel the blights, J. N. BARKER. J. T. WATSON. |