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" And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think... "
Measure for measure, by the author of 'Greymore'. - Page 53
by Measure - 1862
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Miscellaneous Poems: By Several Hands

David Lewis - 1726 - 346 pages
...their Mother's Tongue! VIII. And, when with Envy Time tranfported Shall think to rob us of our Joys; You'll, in your Girls, again be courted, • And I'll go wooing in my Boys. On two Twin Sifters -who died at the fame Time, and were buried in one Grave* FAir Marble, tell to...
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Miscellaneous Poems: By Several Hands

David Lewis - 1726 - 350 pages
...their Mother's Tongue,! VIII. And, when with Envy Time tranfported Shall think to rob us of our Joys; You'll, in your Girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my Boys. On two Twin Sifters who died at the fame Time, and were buried in one Grave. FAir Marble, tell to future...
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The Hive: A Collection of the Most Celebrated Songs, Volume 4

1732 - 284 pages
...lifp their mother's tongue! ^ And when, with envy, time tranfported Shall think to rob us of our joys; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in ray boys. Vanity of refijting LOVE. No, no, no, no, refinance is but vain, And only adds new weight...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 30

1768 - 750 pages
...lifp their mother's tongue! And when with envy Time tranfportcd, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Imitation of tlic Flfß Ode of Anacreon. TO deeds of glory I would tune, And touch the trembling chord;...
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Preface. A historical essay on the origin and progress of national song ...

1783 - 366 pages
...lifp their mothers tongue ! And when with envy Time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. SONG SONG LXVIH. BY MR. GARRICK*. YE fair married dames, who fo often deplore, That a lover once blefs'd...
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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Intended as a Specimen of the Types: At the ...

John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...lifp their mother's tongue. S> And when with envy time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. THE THE FIRE - SIDE *. DEAR Chloe, while the bufy crowd. The vain, the wealthy, and the proud, In folly's...
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Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:: Preserved, by Tradition ...

Edward Jones - 1794 - 208 pages
...lifp their Mothers tongue. And when with envy time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your Girls, again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my Boys . Moderato above Vulume of Mifcf liant uns Foem to coniuffal love is a Iran fin ti им from the Welfh;...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 11

1808 - 532 pages
...with the following stanza, ' And when with envy Time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be Courted, , And I'll go wooing in my boys ' — has so much simplicity and merit, as to make us regret it should be omitted in any compilation...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...lisp their mother's tongue! And when with envy Time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. § Q8. Song. PERCY. O NASTCY ! wilt thou go with me, Nor sigh to leave the flaunting town ? Can silent...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Churchill, 1764, to Johnson, 1784

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 482 pages
...lisp their mother's tongue ! And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. JAMES MERRICK. BORN 1720. — DIED 1769. JAMES MERRICK was a fellow of Trinity college, Oxford, where...
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