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SCIENCE - SENSITIVENESS, &c.

3. Delightful task, to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast!

THOMSON'S Seasons.

4. Oh! ye who teach the ingenious youth of nations,
Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain,
I pray ye, flog them upon all occasions;
It mends their morals - never mind the pain.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

SCIENCE.-(See EDUCATION.)

SEA.- (See OCEAN.)

SEASONS.- (See AUTUMN.)

SECRESY. - (See CONCEALMENT.)

SELF.- (See EGOTISM.)

SENSES. - (See INSTINCT.)

SENSIBILITY. - (See FEELING.)

SENSITIVENESS.

1. Where glow exalted sense and taste refin'd,
There keener anguish rankles in the mind;
There feeling is diffus'd through every part,
Thrills in each nerve, and lives in all the heart.

HANNAH MORE.

2. Dearly bought, the hidden treasure
Finer feelings can bestow!

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure,
Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

3. Upon my lute there is one string
Broken; - the chords were drawn too fast;
My heart is like that string -it tried
Too much, and snapt in twain at last.

SEPARATION. - (See ABSENCE.)

SERVILITY - SLAVERY.

1. And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning.

To hurl the rooted mountain from its base,
Than force the yoke of slavery upon men
Determin'd to be free.

BURNS.

SHAKSPEARE.

SOUTHEY.

3. I would not imitate the petty thought,
Nor coin my self-love to so base a vice,
For all the glory your conversion brought,
Since gold alone should not have been its price.

4. And thus they plod in sluggish misery,
Rotting from sire to son, and age to age,
Proud of their trampled nature, and so die,
Bequeathing their hereditary rage

To a new race of unborn slaves.

BYRON.

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

SHAME. (See RIDICULE.)

SHIP.-(See SAILING.)

Thou wert ere nature's self began to be;
Thine was the sway ere heaven was form'd or earth;
Ere fruitful thought conceiv'd creation's birth.

4. The tongue mov'd gently first, and speech was low,
Till wrangling science taught it noise and show,
And wicked wit arose, thy most abusive foe.

5. There is a silence which hath been no sound; There is a silence which no sound may be In the cold grave.

6. She feels her inmost soul within her stir

POPE.

POPE.

THOMAS HOOD.

With thoughts too wild and passionate to speak;
Yet her full heart - its own interpreter -
Translates itself in silence on her cheek.

MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY.

7. 'T was night: All nature, far and wide,
Was wrapt in silent, deep repose,
And naught was heard on either side,
Their secret purpose to disclose.

SIMPLICITY.

1. Fair nature's sweet simplicity, With elegance refin'd.

J. T. WATSON.

LORD LYTTLETON.

2. Beautiful one! thy look and tone
Of witchery are nature's own -

Like light from heaven, thy magic glance -
Thy voice, the harp's wild utterance;
When touch'd at eve by some spirit's hand,
It breathes the notes of the better land.

1. What peremptory, eagle-sighted eye
Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,
That is not blinded by her majesty?

2. To splendour only do we live?
Must pomp alone our thoughts employ?
All, all that pomp and splendour give,
Is dearly bought with love and joy.

SHAKSPEARE.

CARTWRIGHT.

3. Can wealth give happiness? look round and see,
What gay distress! what splendid misery !
I envy none their pageantry and show,
I envy none the gilding of their woe.

SPRING.- (See AUTUMN.)

SPORTS.- (See FISHING.)

STARS.-(See MOON.)

YOUNG.