 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 páginas
...sound ; Glad to illude the burthens of the day, The eager parties hurry to their play : (') (1) " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, — We love...which we tried our graving skill ; The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | 546 páginas
...and meets with an ignominious tod. " Delightful task To teach the young idea lu shoot." THOMSON. " Be It a weakness, it deserves some praise ; We love the...touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at the sight — aud feels at none." COWPER. When I broke off at the end of the last chapter, Kirkonnel... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 páginas
...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...which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still, The bench on which we sat while deep-employ' d, Though mangled, hack'd and... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 352 páginas
...draws a picture which shows with how much pleasure he looked back upon that part of his boyhood. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed ; Though mangled, hacked, and... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 páginas
...Life of the Hon. Percy Hamilton.} COMMUNICATED TO AND EDITED BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. CHAPTER VI. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise — We love...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feel* not at that sight, and feels at none." COWPBB. Cricket — The annual match at Westminster between... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 páginas
...hopes, an unseen heavenly band Of guardian spirits, sent by Him above, TYROCINIUM. COWPER. [EXTRACT.] BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1841 - 270 páginas
...with the feeling expressed by Cowper, and felt by many others :— Be it a weakness, it deserves tome praise, We love the play-place of our early days;...which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still. The bench, on which we sate while deep employed, Though mangled, hack'd, and... | |
 | George Wickham - 1841 - 258 páginas
...Death of Abel," a work eminently calculated to improve the minds of the young. 108 CHAPTER X. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, — We love...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The little ones unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1841 - 522 páginas
...reception from one Westminster to another. I almost fancied myself a boy again ; I felt, with Cowper, " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise , We love the...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none." was subjected to. Shall I enumerate them ? Tormented, as a new comer ; kicked and pinched, by way of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 páginas
...puppies cost us so much care i 205 Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play -place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and fuels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carv'd subsisting... | |
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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. 
