...nature, if they part, they die. Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ; Good Sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Had thought been all, sweet speech had been deny'd; Speech, thought's canal ! speech, thought's criterion...

...useful to the world. '' Hast thou no friend to set thy mind abroach ? « Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, " And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun, " Speech ventilates our intellectual fire. " Speech burnishes our mental magazine ; " Brightens for...

...talent, and preclusion from its enjoymeut all day gave it an additional charm in the hour of leisure, " Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun, Had thought been all, sweet ipeech had bea denied, It ventilates our intellectual fires, And burnishes...

...moralize, and sermonize, on the different objects which a diversified prospect presented to our view. " Thoughts shut up want air, " And spoil like bales unopened to the fiun," What helps might not Christians be to each other, if they \vould be sincere and faithful ? As...

...matter-of-fact affair, a truism. Again, here is a comparison, which is a trifle too long for a proverb : — " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun." Here is a turn of thought equally correct and felicitous : — " Soon as man, expert from time, has...

...thought between kindred spirits ; Hast tlinu no friend to set thy mind abroach, Good sense will stagnate. Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil; like bales unopened to the sun. "Tis converse qualifies for solitude, As excercise for salutary rest. How desirable, moreover, is it...

...having some one whom we may tell, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing :' " and besides, Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. 'TU converse qualifies for solitude, As exercise for salutary rest. YouHa. There is, perhaps, some...

...interdict also upon the formation of opinion, for it is as true, as it is beautifully expressed, that Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun: and so, in a very short time there will be no wholesome thought at all. The mind suffocates in such...

...the contrary, progress in civilization may be traced as one of the results of a larger vocabulary. " Thoughts shut up, want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Thought in the mind, may come forth gold or dross ; When coined in words, we know its real worth. Speech...

...may be thus produced, where there was nothing of it before. This is but the Poet's principle, that " Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopened to the sun." It is especially so with religious opinion that is suffering tyrannical restraint. It becomes a smouldering...