Schools of every Kind to be found in the Borough-- The School for Infants The School Preparatory: the Sagacity of the Mistress in foreseeing Character - Day-Schools of the lower Kind A Master with Talents adapted to such Pupils: one of superior Qualifications — Boarding-Schools : that for young Ladies: one going first to the Governess, one finally returning Home- School for Youth: Master and Teacher; various Dispositions and Capacities - The MiserBoy The Boy-Bully - Sons of Farmers: how amused -What Study will effect, examined - A College Life: one sent from his College to a Benefice; one retained there in Dignity The Advantages in either Case not considerable Where, then, the Good of a literary Life?— Answered THE BOROUGH. LETTER XXIV. SCHOOLS. Το every class we have a School assign'd, room is small, they cannot widely stray,- Aided by these, and spells, and tell-tale birds, 66 To Learning's second seats we now proceed, Where humming students gilded primers read; Or books with letters large and pictures gay, To make their reading but a kind of play— Reading made Easy," so the titles tell; But they who read must first begin to spell: There may be profit in these arts, but still Learning is labour, call it what you will; Upon the youthful mind a heavy load, Nor must we hope to find the royal road. Some will their easy steps to science show, And some to heav'n itself their by-way know; Ah! trust them not,-who fame or bliss would share, Must learn by labour, and must live by care. Another matron, of superior kind, For higher schools prepares the rising mind; (1) "In every village mark'd with little spire, For unkempt hair, or task unconn'd, are sorely shent.” SHENSTONE She early sees to what the mind will grow, She marks the mind too lively, and at once Long has she lived, and much she loves to trace Her former pupils, now a lordly race; Whom when she sees rich robes and furs oedeck, Cold, selfish, dull, inanimate, unkind, 'Twas but by anger he display'd a mind: Now civil, smiling, complaisant, and gay, The world has worn th' unsocial crust away: That sullen spirit now a softness wears, And, save by fits, e'en dulness disappears: But still the matron can the man behold, Dull, selfish, hard, inanimate, and cold. A Merchant passes, "Probity and truth, "Prudence and patience, mark'd thee from thy youth." (1) "Yet, nursed with skill, what dazzling fruits appear! E'en now sagacious Foresight points to show A little bench of heedless bishops here, And here a chancellor in embryo, Or bard sublime, if bard may e'er be so."-SHBNSTONE. Thus she observes, but oft retains her fears Is lost in error and involved in debt; For latent evil in that heart she found, More open here, but here the core was sound. Various our Day-Schools: here behold we one No more the tyrant stern or judge severe, Ah! little think the timid trembling crowd, That one so wise, so powerful, and so proud, Should feel himself, and dread the humble ills Of rent-day charges and of coalman's bills; That while they mercy from their judge implore, |