| 1833 - 626 pages
...-Age, is forcibly depicted in an appeal to experience. The ideal of both ages is well described. " When I am a man, is the poetry of childhood." " When I was a child, is the poetry of age." The lecture concludes with a laudatory mention of Rogers and Campbell, as poets whose writings illustrate... | |
| 1833 - 578 pages
...To which is prefixed, a brief Survey of the History of English Poetry. 12mo. pp. 419. London, 1633. I am a man ! is the poetry of childhood. When I ' was a child, is the poetry of age.' The truth and beauty of this fine observation of Mr. Montgomery's will be felt by every reader. But... | |
| London missionary society - 1847 - 592 pages
...than upon marble ; but it is easier to make a just one upon marble than upon sand. — WS Landor. " When I am a man," is the poetry of childhood ; " when I was young," is the poetry of old age.— James Montgomery. SUMMONS a and Music ly S. Will® ;E£-e: Mia... | |
| Eliza Cook - 1849 - 432 pages
...these flowers heing so disposed in the jars as to form various patterns. — China a. id the Chinese " WHEN I am a man," is the poetry of childhood; " when I was young," is the poetry of old age. •• EARLY TO BED AND EARLY TO RISE." " Early to hed and early... | |
| 1850 - 426 pages
...look before, The future good to find : In age, when error charms no more, For bliss we look behind." "When I am a man," is the poetry of childhood, " When I was a child," is the poetry of age. Man lives in the present time as a point between that which is gone by and that which is to come, and... | |
| Lewis Gaylord Clark - 1852 - 388 pages
...too wide ' for his little ' supporters,') which he longs to be big enough to wear. Ah, well-a-day ! 'When I am a man ? ' is the poetry of Childhood : ' When I was a boy] is the poetry of Age ! A NORTHERN correspondent sends us the following, which was suggested by... | |
| 1853 - 390 pages
...memory totters, then have wo lost all that renders life supportable, THE POETRY OF YOUTH AHD AGE. " WHEN I am a man," is the poetry of Childhood. " When I was young," is the poetry of Old Age. ANOTHER CHAPTER ON LITTLE CHILDREN. BT THE ACTHOE OF "A CCP OP TEA."*... | |
| 1861 - 930 pages
...is the same as ever. Eíje ©lo A LEAP PKOM AV AUTOBIOGRAPHY. " WHEV I am a man," says Montgomery, " is the poetry of childhood ; when I was a child, is the poetry of age." AVell ! whether prosaic or poetic, I have been musing on times long passed by. Cowper, recalling his... | |
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