To steep in slumbers each benighted sense e o'er n thro' the land dispense Ders each benighted sense? it's delusive ray sh a momentary day, touch forbid it to aspire, fogs the dangerous fire. ars me not, but, careless grow, on her ebon throne. arise, alas my fears! **** a team of harness'd mo * OF EDUCATION AND GOVERNMENT A FRAGMENT *. ESSAY I. · Πόταγ ̓ ᾧ γαθέ; τὰν γὰρ ἀοιδὰν Οὔτι πω εἰς Αίδαν γε τὸν ἐκλελάθονια φυλαξεῖς. THEOCRITUS As sickly plants betray a niggard earth, Whose barren bosom starves her gen'rous bi Nor genial warmth, nor genial juice retains, Their roots to feed, and fill their verdant vein * In a Note in his Roman History, Mr. Gibbon says, "Inst "compiling Tables of Chronology and Natural History, why d "Mr. Gray apply the powers of his genius to finish the philo " poem of which he has left such an exquisite specimen?" · γαθέ; τὰν γὰς ἀοιδὰν τὸν ἐκλελάθονία φυλαξεῖς· THEOCRITUS. tray a niggard earth, istory, Mr. Gibben sars, Instead of Unform'd, unfriended, by those That health and vigour to the so Spread the young thought, and heart: So fond instruction on the grow Of nature idly lavishes her store If equal Justice with unclouded Smile not indulgent on the risin And scatter with a free, tho' fru Light golden showers of plenty But Tyranny has fix'd her empi To check their tender hopes wit And blast the blooming promise This spacious animated scene From where the rolling Orb, tha His sable sons with nearer cours To either pole, and life's remote They follow pleasure, and they fly from pair Say, then, thro' ages by what fate confin'd |