7. 8. 9. If all the world Should, in a pet of Temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, And we should serve him as a grudging master, MILTON'S C nu Nature, good cateress, MILTON'Somus The modest maid But coyly sips, and blushing drinks, abash'd. 10. He, who the rules of temperance neglects, From a good cause may produce vile effects. SOMERVILE. 11. If men would shun swoln fortune's ruinous blasts, Let them use temperance': nothing violent lasts. TUKE. W. STRACHEY. 12. The joy which wine can give, like smoky fires, Obscures their sight, whose fancy it inspires. AARON HILL. 13. "Tis to thy rules, O Temperance! that we owe 14. Earth's coarsest bread, the garden's humblest roots, BYRON'S Corsair. 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 The secret soul; it bids the coward fight; 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 :— This vast profusion of extreme delight, Rising at once, and bursting from despair, Defies the aid of words, and mocks description. 3 For joy like this, death were a cheap exchange. LILLO. ESCHYLUS' Agamemnon. Tune your harps, 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. 6. My joy, my best belov'd, my only wish! How shall I speak the transport of my DRYDEN. LORD LYTTLETON. 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 — WİT, &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 |