- Full Text
- The feast of reason which from reading springs
To reasoning man the highest solace brings
Tis books a lasting pleasure can supply
Charm while we live and teach us how to die
- Listed on Page Number
- 271
- Sampler Worked By
- Marilla S. Ingram
- Date of Sampler
- 1825
- Place Sampler Made
- Amherst, MA
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 179
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- Platts, The Rev. John. The Book of Curiosities; or The Great World: Containing an Account of Whatever Is Most Remarkable in Art Science & Literature. A Compilation, from the Most Authentic Sources. London: Henry Fisher, 1822, p751.
- Notes
- The verse was published in this book without credit to its author.