 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...Julius Cœsar or of Venus ; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Quos genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal...puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustine. That Praed should have gathered so little fame is the more remarkable as, when alive, he had a reputation... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1844 - 296 pages
...Julius Caesar or of Venus : From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quse genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal...make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustin. Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...him I learn M the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, end Quae Genus; I used to singe his powderM wig, To 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 my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...I learn'd the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quas Genus; I used to singe his powder'd wig, To 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 my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...Julius Ceesar or of Venus ; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-fAjg, and Quae genus; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal...began to quote Augustine. Alack the change ! In vain I For haunts in which my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The church is larger... | |
 | 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...trifled ; The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees 1 climbed, the beds I rifled : The church is larger than before ; You reach it by a carriage entry... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...Julius Csesar or of Venus ; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Qua genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal...the staff he put such trust in, And make the puppy dauce a jig When he began to quote Augustine. Alack the change ! In vain I look For haunts in which... | |
 | Winthrop Mackworth Praed - 1854 - 326 pages
...learned the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quae genus ; I used to singe his powdered wigj To 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 my boyhood trifled ; The level lawn,... | |
 | James Parton - English poetry - 1856 - 700 pages
...Julius Cassar-or of Yenus : From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's cradle, leap-frog, and Quse genus; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal...make the puppy dance a jig When he began to quote Augustin. Alack the change! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled; The level lawn,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1857 - 396 pages
...Julius Cassar or of Venus ; From him I learned the rule of three, Cat's-cradle, leap-frog, and Qute genus ; I used to singe his powdered wig, To steal...Alack the change ! In vain I look For haunts in which by boyhood trifled : The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees I climbed, the beds I rifled !... | |
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Alack the change ! in vain I look For haunts in which my boyhood trifled: The level lawn, the trickling brook, The trees 1 climbed, the beds I rifled... 
