 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...Eden's garden drest, His Maker there, to teach the listening3 heart. Mrs. Sigourney. SCHOOL-DAYS. BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days ; 1 The personification of the different inanimate objects is very delicately and gracefully managed.... | |
 | Anna Eliza Bray - 1845 - 478 páginas
...weakness, it deserves some praise ; "We love the play -place of our early days. The scene is touchmg, and the heart is' stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. COWPER. WE must now leave for awhile the unfortunate Sir Marmaduke Elford and his son, whilst we return... | |
 | Philip Tocque - 1846 - 418 páginas
...attention. All these little incidents, and a thousand more, recall the happy days of early home. "Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...bench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangl'd, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd." We carry with us every where a love of home, which... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1846 - 588 páginas
...place on earth has such a charm to us as it. Of this fact, Cowper beautifully and truly says— " Be it weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. *********** This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started into life's long... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 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... | |
 | 1878 - 496 páginas
...Stoke, Buckinghamshire, during a part of the time that Cowper lived at Olney in the same county. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days, The wall on which we tried our carving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still, The bench on which... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 páginas
...; not an lago, but perfidy, not a Brutus, but patriotism. CHAPTER X. EARLY RECOLLECTIONS. — " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We* love the...touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at the sight, and feels at none. The wall2 on which we tried our graving skill, 5 The very name we carved... | |
 | My old pupils - 1849 - 212 páginas
...love you, I should have placed him under his care. I think it is Sir Walter Scott, who says : — ' Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise — We love...which we sat, while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy 'd : The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 páginas
...weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-plaee of onr early days ; The seene is tonehing, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight,...which we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet "destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games,... | |
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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. 
