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Our Outsides and what They Betoken: A Summary - Page 4
by William Thomas Fernie - 1913 - 413 pages
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Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage , And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : COM...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage ; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 274 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage ; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : COMMENTARY....
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Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues ...

Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275 Pleai'd with a rattle , tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: » Scarfs , garters , gold , aniufe his riper ftage , And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age...
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...common friend : See fome fit paffion ev'ry age fupply, Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight/ A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs,...
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ...

John Newbery - 1762 - 292 pages
...when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas 'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage ; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd...
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An Essay on Man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and Improved by the Author ...

Alexander Pope - 1763 - 154 pages
...following one. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 375 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a. draw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, am ufe his riper ftage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : 280...
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An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1763 - 150 pages
...following one. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas 'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfe, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : 280...
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Works: In English Verse, Volume 4

Horace - 1767 - 430 pages
...'6«— i?i. MSr, Mr. Popi has drawn an elegant Picture in Miniature of the four Stages of Man's Life ; Behold the CHILD, by Nature's kindly Law, Pleas'd with a Rattle, tickled with a Straw. Some livelier Pla; -thing gives his YOUTH Delight, A litile louder, but as empty quite. Stars, Garters, Gold, amule...
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