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" So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree. "
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional ... - Page 91
by Charles Bucke - 1823
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1843 - 488 pages
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...I might be, As the green winter of the holly tree. SOUTHET. Gilpin speaks of the holly rather as a bush or shrub, than a tree, though he admits it to...
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The New Mirror, Volume 3

George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 pages
...rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself) to his Poem on the Holly-tree. So serious «honld my youth appear among The thoughtless throng; So would...seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary, at sight of a solemn visage that "creamed...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, Volume 10

Robert Southey - 1845 - 848 pages
...Holly Tre* t 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng. So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my...I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree. 1798. THE EBB TIDE. SLOWLY thy flowing tide Came in, old Avon I scarcely did mine eyes, As watchfully...
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Prose and Verse, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary, at sight of a solemn visage that " creamed...
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Prose and Verse, Volume 1

Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 pages
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless...seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary, at sight of a solemn visage that " creamed...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 846 pages
...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree 1 So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem, amid the young and gay, More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...bright than they, Bat when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree 1 So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...
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The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for ...

Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 pages
...bright than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the Holly Tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Southey

Robert Southey - 1845 - 848 pages
...than they, But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the'llolly Tree ? 7. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter...
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