 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 páginas
...not the work of nature, but of folly: the first is a harmless instinct, the other a culpable vanity. Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, 281 Till tired he... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 páginas
...child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.' Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some...gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty t^uite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse hu riper stage : And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age.... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 574 páginas
...equally consistent ? " Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with n straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, Barters, gold, aniuae his riper stage : And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleas'd with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw t Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A litUe louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beadsand prayer-books are the toys of age : 280 Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; •Till... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 páginas
...supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 6. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some...youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; 7. Meanwhile opinion gilds, with varying rays, Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 páginas
...supply, Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some...And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : 280 249 ff. How useful these are to SOCIETY in general, and to INDIVIDUALS in particular, in every STATE,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 páginas
...OF LIKE. ' Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; A livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Gold, garters, scarfs, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age; Pleased... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 páginas
...sharper bite, a less kindly view of Man's frailties : Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some...stage; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er!... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1993 - 412 páginas
...cf. Pope, Essay on Man, n. 11.275-82: Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a ratde, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight, A litde louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r... | |
 | Patrick Vinton Kirch, Marshall Sahlins - 1994 - 260 páginas
...profession as a purveyor of baubles to the Hawaiian chiefs: Behold the child, by Natures kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage; And beads and prayer books are the toys of age: Pleased with his bauble still, as that before; Til tired he sleeps,... | |
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