 | S C. Walford - 1817 - 166 pages
...how deeply engraven were juvenile objects; the whole seemed to possess so much interest : " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, " We love the play-place...touching, and the heart is stone " That feels not at the sight, and feels alone. " The wall on which we tried our graving skill, " The very name we carv'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...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 play-place...on which we tried our graven skill, The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - 306 pages
...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 playplace...of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the her.rt is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...taxations new, All neither wholly false — nor wholly true. POPE. Be it a weakness -i\. deserves our praise, We love the play-place of our early days,...touching,- and the heart is stone That feels not at that sigh,-and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our growing skill, — The very name we carved... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1820 - 346 pages
...We love the play-place of our early days ; The scent: ii touching, and the heart is stone That feeb not at that sight— and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill; The very name we carvM subsisting still ; Tbe bench on which we sat while deep employ'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...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 play-place...and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill ; The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...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 play-place...and feels at none, The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 246 pages
...To send our sons to scout and scamper there, White colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; . The scene a touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and (eels at no\no. The wall on which... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...connected with our early days is a source of gratification, even to the latest period of life : — Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...and feels at none ; The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd subsisting still ; The bench on which we sal while deep employ'd,... | |
 | Youth's instructor - 1830 - 542 pages
...• COLSTON'S SCHOOL, BRISTOL. (With an Engraving.) BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise, \Ve love the play-place of our early days ; The scene...on which we tried our graven skill, The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Though mangled, hack'd,... | |
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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 feels at none. 
