The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

Ah, tell them they are men!

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

A fav'rite has no friend!

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

We frolic while 'tis May.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!