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

Forgotten rimes, and college themes, Worm-eaten plans, and embryo schemes; A mass of heterogeneous matter. A chaos dark, nor land nor water.

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

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?