Ah, pensive scholar, what is fame?
A fitful tongue of leaping flame;
A giddy whirlwind's fickle gust,
That lifts a pinch of mortal dust;
A few swift years, and who can show
Which dust was Bill, and which was Joe?
Where should the scholar live? In solitude,
or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature
beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can
hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;
Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading;
Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not;
But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.
And with unwearied fingers drawing out
The lines of life, from living knowledge hid.
STUDY
Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
slumbered seven years, and then lost my degrees.
Christopher Anstey—New Bath Guide.
Epilogue.
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| text = <poem>Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the
mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep;
morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
When night hath set her silver lamp on high,
Then is the time for study.
Exhausting thought,
And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatiugi et perfugium praebent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.
These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.
Me therefore studious of laborious ease.
Studious of elegance and ease.
For he was studious—of his ease.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.
You are in some brown study.
| author = Lyly
| work = Euphues.
| note = Arber's Reprint. P. 80. (1579) The phrase is used by Greene—Menaphon. Arber's Reprint. P. 24. (1589) Also in Halliwell's Reprint for the Percy Society of Manifest Detection . . . of the use of Dice at Play. (1532)
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| text = <poem>Beholding the bright countenance of truth in
the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
| author = Milton
| work = Reason of Church Government. Introduction. Bk. II.
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| text = <poem>Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Ambrose Philips—Epistles from Holland, to
a Friend in England. L. 21. <
| seealso = (See also Anstey, Cowper, Gay, Vergil)
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| text = <poem>I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
What is your study?
King Lear. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 162.
What is the end of study? Let me know?
Why, that to know, which else we should not know.
Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?
Ay, that is study's god-like recompense.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun
That willnot be deep-searched with saucy looks;
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others' books.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 84.
So study evermore is overshot;
While it doth study to have what it would
It doth forget to do the thing it should,
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,
'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 143.
One of the best methods of rendering study
agreeable is to live with able men, and to suffer
all those pangs of inferiority which the want of
knowledge always inflicts.
Sydney Smith—Second Lecture on the Conduct of the Understanding.
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| num = | text = Studiis florentem ignobilis oti. | trans = Priding himself in the pursuits of an inglorious ease. | author = Vergil | work = Georgics. | place = 4. 564. | seealso = (See also Philips)
