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He lives inglorious or in want, To college and old books confin'd; Instead of learn'd he's call'd pedant, Dunces advanc'd, he's left behind: Yet left content a genuine Stoick he, Great without patron, rich without South Sea. BOSWELL. In Mr. Croker's octavo editions, arts in the fifth stanza is changed into hearts.
The stranger learn'd from Charles all the particulars of his simple story how his father had died years since how his mother work' d hard for a bare living and how he himself, for many dreary months, had been the servant of a hard-hearted, avaricious master.
And I remember, that the Diligent Bartholinus says, that a Blind Earl of Mansfield could Distinguish White from Black only by the Touch, which would Sufficiently Argue a great Disparity in the Asperities, or other Superficial Textures of Bodies of those two Colours, if the Learn'd Relator had Affirm'd the Matter upon his own Knowledge. Hist. Anatom. Cent. 3. Hist. 44.
"Come then, ye learn'd, ye great and wise, Unfold the soul to mortal eyes; Say where eternal life shall end, Or where eternal death begins! For death eternal theirs must be, Whose souls no future life shall see! And why should mortals vainly weep For creatures wrapt in endless sleep?
"What," says he, "a Hynds woman painting of strange folks their faces? Out upon thy notion, Jessamine!" And my Cozzens laugh'd and said, Ever did Gentlemen dislike a Learn'd Female. To cure me they did Cruelly bait me to Marry the Pursy Ninny that hath the Plantation beyond the Hopes, he that hath been Ogling of me for years. Could scratch the Wretch his eyes Out!
Begone, ye blockheads, Herselitus cries, And leave my labours to the learn'd and wise; By wit, by knowledge, studious to be read, I scorn the multitude, alive and dead. TIME, which puts an end to all human pleasures and sorrows, has likewise concluded the labours of the Rambler.
This I mention here, because, sometimes, the Snuff-takers are without Snuff, and remote from any Place where it may be had, and would give any Money for it; which was my Case, when I learn'd this Receipt, and by the last Means was presently supplied: we may make it likewise of cut Tobacco dry'd before the Fire.
The English language does not easily lend itself to so much "linked sweetness long drawn out." Even the manuscript of Pope's easy meandering verse is disfigured by ceaseless corrections. As he himself says: True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Pleased with his guests, the good man learn'd to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
I learn'd one thing conclusively that beneath all the ostensible greed and heartlessness of our times there is no end to the generous benevolence of men and women in the United States, when once sure of their object. Another thing became clear to me while cash is not amiss to bring up the rear, tact and magnetic sympathy and unction are, and ever will be, sovereign still.
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