. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. emperate evening falls serene and health the wiser brutes true gladness ! how the younglings frisk along the meads,As May comes on and wakes the balmy wind ;Rampant with life, their joy all joy exceeds : Yet what but high-strung health this dancing pleasure breeds.—Thomson. 8. Health is indeed so necessary to all the duties, as well aspleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal tothe folly; and he that for a short gratification brings weak-ness and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasure of a few
. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. emperate evening falls serene and health the wiser brutes true gladness ! how the younglings frisk along the meads,As May comes on and wakes the balmy wind ;Rampant with life, their joy all joy exceeds : Yet what but high-strung health this dancing pleasure breeds.—Thomson. 8. Health is indeed so necessary to all the duties, as well aspleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal tothe folly; and he that for a short gratification brings weak-ness and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasure of a fewyears passed in the tumults of diversion and clamors of mer-riment condemns the maturer and more experienced part ofhis life to the chamber and couch, may be justly reproached,not only as a spendthrift of his own happiness, but as a rob-ber of the public—as a wretch that has voluntarily disqualifiedhimself for the business of his station, and refused that partwhich Providence assigns him in the general task of humannature. THIRD MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION,. LESSON I. THE TILLAGE SCHOOL OF OLDEN TIME. [The reading of this inimitable piece of description, in which the most delicate satire isconveyed under the guise of profound admiration, requires, especially in the third verse,the ironical tone of mock laudation and respect.] 1. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the wayWith blossomd furze unprofitably gay—There, in his noisy mansion, skilld to rule,The village master taught his little schoor. 2. A man severe he was\ and stern to view:I knew him well, and every truant know : THIRD MISCELLANEOUS DIVISION. 133 Well had the boding tremblers learned to traceThe days disasters in his morning face*;Full well they laughd, with counterfeited glee,At all his jokes, for many a joke had he:Full well the busy whisper, circling round,Conveyd the dismal tidings when he frownd:Yet he was kind, or if severe in love he bore to learning was in faults 3. The village all declared h
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