 | 1835 - 378 pages
...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 girle again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. [" This beautiful address to... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...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 girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my hoys. hardly know whether to give v.ay... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...fondly clung 1 To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! <d z { / < -˻ B L s Fذ . P . , 訫 ɘ 8 * n{jmq _ .$ ; You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. TRAGIC DRAMATISTS. The tragic... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1844 - 284 pages
...as to other folks, who once were young together ; " And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to roh us of our joys, You '11 in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys." So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1845 - 446 pages
...once were young together ; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seoks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my hoys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation as could... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1849 - 534 pages
...forgotten't mysel, too? — 'And 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,... | |
 | 1898 - 712 pages
...as the author of the song in which occur the well-known lines (often referred to in ' N. A Q.') :— And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'II go wooing in my boys. There is this foot-note to the... | |
 | 1875 - 676 pages
...die," &c. Quoted in Charles Kingsley's Westminster Sermons, p. 24. GJ COOPEK. " And when with envy Timo transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You '11 in vour girls again be courted, While I go wooing with my boys." HAB Information is requested respecting... | |
 | 1876 - 602 pages
...German version of the last stanza of " Winefreda " U but a weak rendering of the English lines : — " And when with envy time, transported, Shall think...joys, You '11 in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boy»." In the ballad of " Sir Patrick Spcns" we are told that "The King Bits... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1850 - 544 pages
...were young together : •"And when with envy Time, transported, seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation as could possibly... | |
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And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. 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... 
