 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...truth is clear, Whatever is is right. THE WISDOM OF PROVIDENCE DISPLAYED EVEN IN THE WEAKNESSES OF MEN. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | Charles Cornwallis Marquis Cornwallis - Great Britain - 1859 - 642 pages
...over my fat belly. I could have excused myself in the following lines : — " Behold the child, \>y nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty qtiite. Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...common friend : See some fit passion every age supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 60 pages
...common friend; See some fit passion every age supply; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child by nature's kindly law, Pleased with...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...common friend : See some fit passion every age supply ; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a rtraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...when 'tis drain'd :—'tis like Whate'er is bright, or sad, or small, or brief. {& aftarojgM—life. " Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased...tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives the youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite. Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier...play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage; And beads and pray'r-books are the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 pages
...swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Their plumage to his wings?' ' THE TOYS OF LIKE. ' Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; A livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Gold, garters,... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...bite, a less kindly view of Man's frailties : Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier...play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage; And beads and pray'r-books are the... | |
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