...talents it requires ; A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. But in his arduous enterprise to close His active...quite vacant is a mind distress'd. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turn'd into the park or...

...talents it requires ; A business, with an income at it's heels, Famishes always oil for it's own wheels. But, in his arduous enterprise to close His active...state exceed His utmost faculties, severe indeed. 'T is easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation...

...pass auay in idleness or sloth, the truth of the sentiment commemorated in the verse of Cowper: ^ " Absence of occupation is not rest, " A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." In familiar language, therefore, he was what may be emphatically called a " hard student...

...talents it requires; A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. But in his arduous enterprise to close His active...occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength,...

...(Edipvs. Industrious wisdom often does prevent What lazy folly thinks inevitable. Abdicated Prince. Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd. The keenest pangs the wretched find, Are rapture to the dreary void — The leafless desert of the mind...

...could occupy his mind and exercise his bodily powers, he will become miserable. Cowper says, — " 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage...occupation is not rest ; A mind quite vacant is a mind distrest." H 2 A person should be more adapted by his taste and general qualities for that to which...

...indolence. • An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes, as when it stands. Absence of occupation is not rest ; A mind quite vacant is a mind distrest.' This poem contains the most striking picture of melancholy that was ever drawn : and it...

...and commerce shall be laid aside, consider how they may be qualified to enjoy and improve leisure, " Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant, is a mind distress'd." Every one must perceive, that a taste for literature and philosophy — a treasure of books, and a...

...talents it requires ; A business with an income at his heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. But in his arduous enterprise to close His active...quite vacant is a mind distress'd. The veteran steed, excused his task at length, In kind compassion of his failing strength, And turn'd into the park or...

...talents it requires ; A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels. But in his arduous enterprise to close His active...state exceed His utmost faculties, severe indeed. VOL. VI. P 'Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, . , But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence...