| Alexander Wilson (Novelist.) - 1825 - 490 pagini
...branch from violence or decay. " Be it a weakness—it deserves some praise— We IOTB the play place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the...and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graven skill, The very name we carved subsisting still; The bench on which we sat while deep employed,... | |
| Alexander Wilson (novelist.) - 1825 - 332 pagini
...decay. " Be it a weakness — it deserves some praise — We love the play place of our early days J The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That...and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graven skill, The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed,... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pagini
...To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much ca«o ? 295 Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carv'd subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Tho'... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pagini
...To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? 295 Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carv'd subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Tho'... | |
| 1826 - 488 pagini
...bring1 myself to have even a post pulled up that I have known ever since I was a boy.' '• . '. 1 Be it weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graven skill, The very name w« carved subsisting; still ; The bench on which we sat *hile deep eniploy'd,... | |
| 1828 - 814 pagini
...but the voice of mercy's rod, To bring or bind us to our God. Anon. PLAY-PLACE OF OUR EARLY DAYS. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise ; We love the...and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our growing skill, The very name we carved, subsisting still, The bench on which we sat, while deep employed,... | |
| William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pagini
...trust, To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days ; The scene is touchmg, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The walls on which... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pagini
...mine hildhood, pleasing hoon of thine ! SCHOOL-BOY REMINISCENCES. cOWPER. BAILLIE. MAN. The scene ia touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at...which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pagini
...hoon of thine f SCHOOL-BOY REMINISCENCES. COWPER. ANON. MAN. The scene is touching, and the heart ie stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none....which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved suhsisting still ; The hench on which we sat while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pagini
...and romances. Swift. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our earlier days, The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. Coicper. PLAYFAIR (John), a distinguished Scottish natural philosopher and mathematician, was born... | |
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