enemy in his power, and with that he fastened the bag, and crushed him to pieces[1].
N°62.Friday, May 22 , 1713.
By G. BERKELEY, D.D
O fortunatos nimiùm, sua si bona nôrint!
Too happy, if they knew their happy state.
Upon the late election of king's scholars, my curiosity drew me to Westminster-school. The sight of a place where I had not been for many years, revived in my thoughts the tender images of my childhood, which by a great length of time had contracted a softness, that rendered them inexpressibly agreeable. As it is usual with me to draw a secret unenvied pleasure from a thousand incidents overlooked by other men, I threw myself into a short transport, forgetting my age, and fancying myself a school-boy.
This imagination was strongly favoured by the presence of so many young boys, in whose looks were legible the sprightly passions of that age, which raised in me a sort of sympathy. Warm blood thrilled through every vein; the faded memory of those enjoyments that once gave me pleasure put on more lively colours, and a thousand gay amusements filled my mind. It was not without regret, that I was forsaken
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- ↑ This paper, N.61, is ascribed to Pope on the authority of Steele himself. See The Publisher to the Reader.
