 Alack, the change! In vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled. The church is larger than before, You reach it by a carriage entry: It holds three hundred people more,...  The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed - Page 140by Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1865Full view - About this book
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose tone is very Ciceronian. 172 Where is the old man laid 1 — look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
 | American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...succeeded by one of those 'snowy-banded dilettante delicate-handed priests ' whom the Laureate loves not. ' Sit in the Vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine...phrase is very Ciceronian. Where is the old man laid 7 — look down, And construe on the slab before yon, " Hicjacet GuLiBLMU8 BROWN, Fir milla non demandas... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone," we remember Praed in " The Vicar : " " Sit in the Vicar's scat ; you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose style is very Ciceronian. " Where is. the old man laid 1 Look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger...hundred people more : And pews are fitted up for gentry. 58 Sit in the vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger...carriage entry ; It holds three hundred people more : And | iews are fitted up for gentry. Sit in the vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian,... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...my boyhood trifled; The level lawn, (he trjckfing brook, , The trees Г climb'd, the beds I rirled; The church is larger than before ; ' , You reach it...entry ; It holds three hundred people more : And pews nre fitted up for gentry. Sit in the Vica.r'8 seat: you'll heat The doctrine of a uinile Johnian, •... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...the change ! In vain I For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The church is larger than before, You reach it by...holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted for the gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat: you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian; Whose hand is... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 342 pages
...steal the staff he put such trust in; And make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustin. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which...Johnian, Whose hand is white, whose tone is clear, Whose tone is very Ciceronian. "Where is the old man laid ]—look down, And construe on the slab before... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1852 - 324 pages
...steal the staff he put such trust in ; And make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustin. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which...seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian, Where is the old man laid ?— look down, And construe on the slab before you, Hie JACET GULIELMUS... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...vain I look For haunts in which by boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled ! The church is larger...holds three hundred people more, And pews are fitted for the gentry. Sit in the Vicar's seat : you'll hear The doctrine of a gentle Johnian ; Whose hand... | |
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