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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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The Harp of Renfrewshire: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces ...

William Motherwell - 1872 - 556 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. poctic fietion only, or rather a stroke of satire, by which Dr. Percy was strangely...
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The Harp of Renfrewshire:: A Collection of Songs and Other Poetical Pieces ...

William Motherwell - 1872 - 592 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. poctic fiction only, or rather a stroke of satire, by which Dr. Perey was strangcly...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 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'll go wooing in my boys. Surely this is the sort of poetry that ought to be popular—to be sung in our concert-rooms,...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed ..., Volumes 3-4

Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...mother's feature», To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, Time, transported, $ wooing in my boys. GEORQE STEVEN» THE GOBLIN BARBER. Л GEltMAN LEUEND. Г Johann Anglist Musaus,...
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The Might and Mirth of Literature: A Treatise on Figurative Language. In ...

John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 pages
...their mother's features, And 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." The poems of Sir Robert Ayton were reprinted at Edinburgh in 1844. This is the...
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Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy, ed. by J. V. Prichard, Volume 1

English poetry - 1876 - 552 pages
...lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, 30 You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go a wooing in my boys. XIV. '<Ei)t illilri) of Wokcn was published in a small collection of Poems, entitled Euthemia, or the...
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Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs ...

Thomas Percy - 1876 - 630 pages
...their mothers features, To hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again bo courted, And I'll go a wooing in шу boys. 30 XIV. — was published in a small collection of poems,...
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Reliques of ancient English poetry, by T. Percy

English poetry - 1880 - 486 pages
...their mothers features. To hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys. You'll in your...again be courted, And I'll go a wooing in my boys. XIV.— THE WITCH OF WOKEY WAS published in a small collection of poems, entitled Eutlumia, or the...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 390 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 " with a glance at Kyrle— "And I go wooing with the boys." "And this," thought young Kyrle, in...
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Tender and True: Poems of Love

Mary Wilder Tileston - 1881 - 210 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. Gilbert Cooper. Epithalamion. 143 EPITHALAMION. *#*#*#•** A \ J AKE now, my Love,...
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