And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reasoning; the rest are formed by his education, his temperament, by the age in which he lives, by trains of thought directed to a particular track through some accidental association - in short, by prejudice.