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The Edinburgh annual register - Page 332
1810
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...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 straw : Some livelier...play-thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - 1821 - 402 pages
...; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Plcas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A li I tic louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books...
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Traduction de l'essai sur l'homme de Pope: en vers français, précédée d'un ...

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 268 pages
...supply, Hope travels thro', nor quits us when \ve die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youlh delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275' Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier...play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray 'r-books are...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...Trifles please and delight children and youth : — JBehold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite. POPB. Another poet thus speaks of juvenile joys: — i- .• See on yon carpet,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier...play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier...plaything gives his youth delight ; A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And cards and counters are the toys...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - 1824 - 468 pages
...absolute identity may not be equally consistent? " Behold the child, by nature's kindly Jaw, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarf, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage : And beads and prayer-books are the...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 29 Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier...plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage; And beads and pray'r-books are the...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas' d nce, The people's brave, the politician's tool ; Never was patriot yet, but was a fool. Whence comes it but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage ; And beads and prayer-books are...
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