 If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood ; So foul and so fierce are their natures : But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless as doves or as lambs, Those lovely sweet...  The Works of the English Poets: Watts - Página 362por Samuel Johnson - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Isaac Watts - 1848 - 116 páginas
...lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play...without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the sight! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James George C. Fussell - 1852 - 76 páginas
...lambs Hun sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves, in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the sight ! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud; Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | 1852 - 110 páginas
...side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white, With fleeces so clean and so white; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love without i an-ger or rage, Hew much may we learn from the j 'i TWO KINDS OF RICHES. A LITTLE boy sat by his... | |
 | Isaac Watts, Robert Southey - 1854 - 460 páginas
...open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the sight ! If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs,...we might play till it ended in blood ; So foul and so fierce are their natures : But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1854 - 472 páginas
...lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the sight ! If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1854 - 464 páginas
...lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the sight ! But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 páginas
...eagles eat the same !" Moreover, Watts forgets grace, occasionally, for chance, as in the conplet : " If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud, Or dogs,...we might play till it ended in blood, So foul and so fierce are their natures. But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless,... | |
 | 1873 - 618 páginas
...eagles eat the same !" Moreover, Watts forgeta grace, occasionally, for chance, as in the couplet : " If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud, Or dogs,...we might play till it ended in blood, So foul and so fierce are their natures. But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1866 - 128 páginas
...lambs Eun sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play...without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the sight If we had beeu ducks, we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood... | |
 | 1866 - 498 páginas
...young lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white, Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the sight ! But Thomas, and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and... | |
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