 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...— The scene is touching, and the heart is stone 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 we sat while deep employ 'd, Tho' mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...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 we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroyed : The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...— The scene is touching, and the heart is stone 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 we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The...subsisting still; The bench on which we sat while deep err ployed, Tho' mangled,hacked,and hewed, not yet destroyed: The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, 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 we sat while deep employ'd, Tho' mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 pages
...days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone 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 we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 252 pages
...days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved suhsisting still ; The hench on which we sat while deep employed, Thongh mangled, hacked, und hewed,... | |
 | S C. Walford - England - 1817 - 166 pages
...; " The scene is touching, and the heart is stone " That feels not at the sight, and feels alone. " The wall on which we tried our graving skill, " The very name we carv'd, subsisting still. " The bench on which we sat, while deep employ 'd, " Tho' mangl'd, hack'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, 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 we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...heart is stone That feels not at that sigh-t, 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, Tho' mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed : The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing... | |
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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. 
