| Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...age supply, Hope travels thro', nor quits us when \ve die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youlh delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...supply, Hope travels through, 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...And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : 280 NOTES. But wanting another proper instance of this truth, he reserved the lines above for some following... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...supply, Hope travels through, 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...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray 'r-books are the toys of age : 280 NOTES. But wanting another proper instance of this truth, he... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...common friend : See some fit passion every age supply; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps,... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...— Trifles please and delight children and youth : — JBehold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some...youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite. POPB. Another poet thus speaks of juvenile joys: — i- .• See on yon carpet, mantled o'er with flow'rs,... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...affirmation of absolute identity may not be equally consistent ? " Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives hin youth delight, A little luuder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage... | |
| William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...age supply, 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...Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And cards and counters are the toys of age ; • Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 29 Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some...stage; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas' d nce, The people's brave, the politician's tool ; Never...religion and the laws Should more be Absalom's than prayer-books are the toys of age ; Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he sleeps,... | |
| Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 468 pages
...affirmation of absolute identity may not be equally consistent? " Behold the child, by nature's kindly Jaw, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some...youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarf, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage : And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleas'd... | |
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