Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.—Ibid.: Essay on Man.
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.—Ibid.: The Epistles.
From seeming evil still educing good.—Thomson: Hymn.
To teach the young idea how to shoot: Ibid.: The Seasons, Spring.
’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
Campbell: Pleasures of Hope.
And man the hermit sighed till woman smiled.—Ibid.
Where ignorance is bliss
’Tis folly to be wise.—Gray: Ode on Eton College.
Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.—Ib.: The Progress of Poesy.