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" 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 to rob us of our joys, You'll in your... "
Prolusiones poeticæ; or, A selection of poetical exercises, in Greek, Latin ... - Page 60
by Prolusiones - 1788
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Beauties of the Scottish poets, or Harp of Renfrewshire, a collection of ...

Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...mother's features, To hear them 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. poetic fiction only, or rather a stroke of satire, by which Dr. Percy*1' strangely...
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The London Magazine, Volume 3

1821 - 746 pages
...is it that we realize tlie delightful anticipation of the soug, And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your Girls again be council, While I go wooing in my Boy^. Children alrbrd an cxcus« for bustnet*, ae well as a plea for...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 316 pages
...their mother's features, To hear them 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 go wooing in my boys. THE GENIUS OF BRITAIN. AN IAMBIC ODE. ADDRESSED TO THE RIGHT, HONOURABLE WILLIAM...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...tongue ! And, looking forward to advanced life, he exclaims, — And when with envy Time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing with the boys. Conversation with children is highly interesting to a sensible man. He beholds...
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Reginald Dalton, Volume 3

John Gibson Lockhart - 1823 - 370 pages
...when time'—' And when time.'—Ay, ay, this is the way o't— ' 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.' And are na thae very bonny lines, my leddy ?" " Very much so, indeed, Mr Macdonald,...
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J.G. v. Herder's sämmtliche Werke: Zur Philosophie und Geschichte, Volumes 39-40

Johann Gottfried Herder - 1828 - 876 pages
...i?nbe beô l'icbea, benn ber SRoman ber îiltcn feirt auf, tvcnn ber ber 3ungtn anfangt : уоц'П in your girls again be courted and I'll go a wooing in my brys. roáre bcr gaben béa Sud)?, feinem п.йф5 Ьоф bitte id), bofj er nid)t jtim 2ínferfíiJ...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages: Or, The Progress of Human Life

John Evans - 1831 - 322 pages
...will live a life of reason, And that's the only life to live ! And when with envy, I'ime, 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 1 Nor even from the highest ranks of society must the operation of the bliss of Wedded...
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 2

1833 - 388 pages
...their mother's features. To hear them 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 Г11 go wooing in my boys. Of a totally different character is the following, which, perhaps, is neither...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated ...

John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...will live a life of reason, And that's the only life to live! 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 ! Nor even from the highest ranks of society must the operation of the bliss of Wedded...
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The songs of England and Scotland

England - 1835 - 794 pages
...the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; 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. [" This beautiful address to conlugal love," says Dr. Percy, " • sublect too much...
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