Essays That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Writings of English and American Essayists (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Essays That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Writings of English and American Essayists

One of the most familiar passages in dramatic literature describes the seven ages of man as they appeared to the author of As You Like It: the infant in his nurse's arms; the whining schoolboy, with shining morning face, creeping to school; the lover, sighing like a furnace° the soldier, bearded like the pard; the justice, full of wise saws; the lean and slippered pantaloon This is a highly Imaginative rendering of the facts of life. Nobody escapes the dangers of infancy; the fortunate become schoolboys and, later, lovers; but comparatively few men turn soldiers, though every true man has some soldierly qualities; still fewer wear the robes of the judge, though every man ought to have something of his wisdom; and the number of helpless old people becomes smaller and smaller.

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