Pleasant words are as honeycomb, sweet to the soul. Prov. xvi. 24. Is it at all necessary that knowledge should come to a child in the shape of knowledge? . . . .. Science, it seems, has displaced poetry in the walks of little children. Is not CHARLES LAMB. this sore evil? Now that we have to do with grafting and growing, pray do not vex yourselves with thinking what to do with the pippins. RUSKIN. |