212 DRINKING-WINE, &c. 15. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk: BYRON'S Don Juan. 16. He spent his days in riot most uncouth, BYRON'S Childe Harold. 17. Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires BYRON'S Sardanapalus. 18. Fill the bright goblet, spread the festive board, 19. The gen'rous wine brings joy divine, And beauty charms our soul; I, while on earth, will still with mirth, Drink beauty and the bowl! 20. What cannot wine perform? It brings to light SCOTT. E. MCKEY. FRANCIS' Horace. 21. Could ev'ry drunkard, ere he sits to dine, MERIVALE'S Clearchus. 22. Thou sparkling bowl! thou sparkling bowl! Though lips of bards thy brim may press, And eyes of beauty o'er thee roll, 23. And song and dance thy power confess- Inspiring John Barleycorn, 24. 'Tis when the fancy-stirring bowl 25. Ah! Brandy, Brandy! bane of life, Spring of tumult, source of strife, Could I but half thy curses tell, The wise would wish thee safe in hell! JOHN PIERPONT. 26. Blame not the bowl—the fruitful bowl, Whence wit and mirth and music spring, And amber drops Elysian roll, To bathe young Love's delighted wing. C. F. HOFFMAN. DUTY. (See CONSCIENCE.) EATING. (See APPETITE.) 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 :— LILLO. 3. For joy like this, death were a cheap exchange. ESCHYLUS' 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.. 9. One hour of such bliss is a life ere it closes'Tis one drop of fragrance from thousands of roses. P. M. WETMORE. EDUCATION-WISDOM-WIT, &c. 1. Why did my parents send me to the schools, That I with knowledge might enrich my mind, 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, 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 A mortal man unfold all nature's law, POPE'S Essay on Man. -Mingles with the friendly bowl 12. 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. |