 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 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-employ... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1836 - 344 pages
...sound; Glad to illude the burthens of the day, The eager parties hurry to their play: (') (1) " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,—> We love the...touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight—and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill; The very name we carved subsisting... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 372 pages
...a picture which shows with how much pleasure he looked back upon that part of his boyhood. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; 7 This custom was not practised at Westminster in the days of Dr. Vincent. But " sweet remuneration"... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 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...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,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...; Glad to illude the burthens of the day, The eager parties hurry to their play : (') (1) " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, — We love the...—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 employ'd,... | |
 | 546 pages
...meets with an ignominious tod. " Delightful task To teach the young idea lu shoot." THOMSON. " 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 — aud feels at none." COWPER. When I broke off at the end of the last chapter, Kirkonnel... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 352 pages
...a picture which shows with how much pleasure he looked back upon that part of his boyhood. 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 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-employ'... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1848 - 550 pages
...the Hon. Percy Hamilton.} COMMUNICATED TO AND EDITED BY LORD WILLIAM LENNOX. CHAPTER VI. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise — We love the...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feel* not at that sight, and feels at none." COWPBB. Cricket — The annual match at Westminster between... | |
 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 pages
...unseen heavenly band Of guardian spirits, sent by Him above, TYROCINIUM. COWPER. [EXTRACT.] 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,... | |
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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. 
