 When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making...  Ohio Educational Monthly - Page 201884Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 806 pages
...serve a higher purpose than specimen bricks. The following ' conceit ' is far from ' miserable.' ' When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. The success of her scheme gave her so much delight, That she tried it again shortly after in Dwight... | |
 | 462 pages
...meek, That a suitable parallel s -Is one to seek — He's a John IJunyan Fouque, a Puritan Ticck ; When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted For making so full-sized a man as she wanted ; 80, to till out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared,... | |
 | 1851 - 318 pages
...Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted Fur making so full-sized a man as she wanted ; Bo, to till out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. The success of her scheme gave her so much delight, That she tried it again shortly after, ih Dwight... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 pages
...so meek, That a suitable parallel sets one to seek, — He's a John Bunyan Fouquc, a Puritan Tieck ; When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted...model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuft' for a woman prepared, And she could not have hit a more excellent plan For making him fully... | |
 | 1854 - 604 pages
...wildnessso meek, That a suitable parallel sets one to seek : He's a John Bunyan Fouque', a Puritan Tieck ; When nature was shaping him, clay was not granted...making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to fill ont her model, a litile she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman preAnd she could not have... | |
 | 1854 - 524 pages
...meek, That a suitable parallel sets one to seek, — He's a John Bunyan Fouqué, a Puritan Ticck ; When Nature was shaping him, clay was not granted...For making so full-sized a man as she wanted, So, to nil out her model, a little she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman prepared, And she... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1856 - 112 pages
...one to seek, — He's a John Bunyan Fouque, a Puritan Tieck ; When Nature was shaping him, clay -mas not granted For making so full-sized a man as she...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. The success of her scheme gave her so much delight, That she tried it again, shortly after, in Dwight... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1858 - 336 pages
...so meek, That a suitable parallel sets one to seek,— He's a John Bunyan Fouque, a Puritan Ticck; When nature was shaping him, clay was not granted...excellent plan For making him fully and perfectly man. The success of her scheme gave her so much delight, That she tried it again, shortly after, in Dwight;... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 330 pages
...so meek, That a suitable parallel sets one to seek,— He's a John Bunyan Fouque, a Puritan Tieck; When nature was shaping him, clay was not granted...she spared From some finer-grained stuff for a woman pre» Only, while she was kneading and shaping the clay, She sang to her work in her sweet childish... | |
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