| William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...their 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...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd, subsisting still; The bench on which... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...smiles, descends toward the grave Sprightly, and old almost without decay. EARLY LOCAL ATTACHMENTS. JjE it a weakness, it deserves some praise ; We love the...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd, subsisting still; The bench on which... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...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 touching,...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd, subsisting still ; The bench on... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...The bench on which we fat while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked,andhewed,not yetdeftroyed •: The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very fpot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw ; M 3 To pitch... | |
| William Cowper - 1803 - 386 pages
...ftill; The bench on which we fat while deep employed, Tho' mangled,hacked,and hewed,noty et deftroyed : The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very fpot; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw; To pitch the... | |
| William Cowper - 1805 - 366 pages
...The bench on which we fat while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet deftroyed : The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very fpot ; As happy as we once, to kneel and draw The chalky ring, and knuckle down at taw ; To pitch the... | |
| William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...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 touching, and the...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carv'd subsisting still; The bench on... | |
| George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 372 pages
...subsellia veatra tumultu Pomp* loci, et vuui fugiatur scena timons. Autonius in Protrcptico ad Nt$ttcnl Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,— We love the play-place of our early days; The scene in touching, and the.* li^avt is stone That feels not at that sight— and ft- eh at none : The wall... | |
| George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...Aasooios in Protreptico ad NepoteM. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,-* We love the pla^-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stooe That feels not at that sight— and feels at none: The wall on which \w tried our graving skills... | |
| George Crabbe - City and town life - 1810 - 402 pages
...praise,— ,1 .. • We love the play-place of our early days; The wn« is touclitpir, and the beart is stone That feels not at that sight— and feels at none: . . _ The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very nartie we carvM aubsisting stilt; The... | |
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