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The Edinburgh annual register - Page 332
1810
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 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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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...; 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 beads and prayer-books are the...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages: Or, The Progress of Human Life

John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...individuals in general may be disposed to allow — Behold the Chad, by nature's kindly law, Pleasd'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 age, And beads, and prayer-books, are the...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ...

Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 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...play-thing gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: ,, Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage; And beads and prayer-books are...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to ...

Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 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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Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in ...

Lyman Cobb - 1834 - 238 pages
...friend ; See some fit passion every age supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 6. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased...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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Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated ...

John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...individuals in general may be disposed to allow — Behold tlie Child, by nature's kindly law, Plcas'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 age, And beads, and prayer-books, are the...
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The Constitution of Society: As Designed by God

Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...when I became a man, I put away childish things.' 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 t^uite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse hu riper stage : And beads and prayer-books are...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., to which is Prefixed ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pages
...common friend : See some fit passion every age supply ; Hope travels through, nor quits us when wo die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw t Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A litUe louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters,...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 6. 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 ; 7. Meanwhile opinion gilds, with varying rays, Those painted clouds that beautify...
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