Chapter 22 No.22

"Alas! what boots it with incessant care

To strictly meditate the thankless Muse;

Were I not better done as others use,

To sport with Amaryllis in the shade,

Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?"

MILTON'S Lycidas.

THERE is nothing more salutary to active men than occasional intervals of repose,-when we look within, instead of wit