 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...their trust, To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise; We love the play-place of our early days — The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...smiles, descends toward the grave Sprightly, and old almost without decay. EARLY LOCAL ATTACHMENTS. JjE it a weakness, it deserves some praise ; We love the play-place of our early days— The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The... | |
 | George Crabbe - English poetry - 1810 - 372 pages
...subsellia veatra tumultu Pomp* loci, et vuui fugiatur scena timons. Autonius in Protrcptico ad Nt$ttcnl Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,— We love the play-place of our early days; The scene in touching, and the.* li^avt is stone That feels not at that sight— and ft- eh at none... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...their trnst, To send onr sous to scont and scamper there, While colts and pnppies cost ns so mnch care? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of onr early days; The scene is tonching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1816 - 340 pages
...snbseltia vestra tniuullu, Pompa loci, et van! fugiatur scena timoris. Auionius in Protreptico ad Nepotem. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,— We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight—and feels at none. The... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...trust, To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The... | |
 | S C. Walford - England - 1817 - 166 pages
...to shew how deeply engraven were juvenile objects; the whole seemed to possess so much interest : " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, " We love the play-place of our early days ; " The scene is touching, and the heart is stone " That feels not at the sight, and feels alone. "... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...trust, To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...their trust, To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none, The... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...connected with our early days is a source of gratification, even to the latest period of life : — Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none ;... | |
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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. 
