. The essays of Leigh Hunt. ion in it,greatly to the comfort of the seniors who adorn thecircles. RHYME AND REASON 89 On Time, Time Child Race Hold Sublime Beguiled Trace Old Fraught Boy All Sure Thought Joy Ball Endure Power Man Pride Death Devour Span Deride Breath Rust Sire Aim Forgiven Dust Expire Same Heaven. Glass Undo Pass So New- Wings Go Kings We ask any impartial reader, whether he could possiblywant a more sufficing account of the progress of thisauthors piece of reasoning upon Time ? There is, first,the address to the hoary god, with all his emblems andconsequence about him, the sc
. The essays of Leigh Hunt. ion in it,greatly to the comfort of the seniors who adorn thecircles. RHYME AND REASON 89 On Time, Time Child Race Hold Sublime Beguiled Trace Old Fraught Boy All Sure Thought Joy Ball Endure Power Man Pride Death Devour Span Deride Breath Rust Sire Aim Forgiven Dust Expire Same Heaven. Glass Undo Pass So New- Wings Go Kings We ask any impartial reader, whether he could possiblywant a more sufficing account of the progress of thisauthors piece of reasoning upon Time ? There is, first,the address to the hoary god, with all his emblems andconsequence about him, the scythe excepted ; that being anedge-tool to rhymers, which they judiciously keep insidethe verse, as in a sheath. And then we are carried throughall the stages of human existence, the caducity of which thewriter applies to the world at large, impressing upon us theinutility of hope and exertion, and suggesting of course thepropriety of thinking just as he does upon all subjects,political and moral, past, present, and to The cultivation of pleasant associations is, next to health,the great secret of enjoyment ; and, accordingly, as welessen our cares and increase our pleasures, we may imagineourselves affording a grateful spectacle to the Author ofhappiness. Error and misery, taken in their proportion,are the exceptions in his system. The world is most un-questionably happier upon the whole than otherwise ; orlight and air, and the face of nature, would be differentfrom what they are, and mankind no longer be buoyed upin perpetual hope and action. By cultivating agreeablethoughts, then, we tend, like bodies in philosophy, to thegreater mass of sensations, rather than the less. What we can enjoy, let us enjoy like creatures made forthat very purpose : what we cannot, let us, in the samecharacter, do our best to deprive of its bitterness. Nothingcan be more idle than the voluntary gloom with whichpeople think to please Heaven in certain matters, andwhich they confound with se
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