I'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more vain, than those of men; Your pangs or pleasures of fifteen At forty-five played o'er again. I'd say, we suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five,... Calcutta Review - Page 2251862Full view - About this book
| Literature - 1853 - 842 pages
...hinted in this mimic page. The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, jour woes were not less keen, Your hopes more vain, than...Your pangs or pleasures of fifteen, At forty-five playid o'er again. I'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more «s mm than Ьоув ; With grizzled... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...imperishable SCOTT? From the Epilojue to Docltir Birch and his Young Friend» THE MORAL OF LIFE. « * * * I 'D say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve, in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred... | |
| 1853 - 800 pages
...say the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic pngc. The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys , With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst ut twelve, in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pages
...Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I 'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more...pleasures of fifteen, At forty-five played o'er again. I 'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...pleasures of fifteen At forty-five played o'er again. * These verses were printed at the end of a Christmas Book (1848-9), • ' Dr. Birch and his young... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 110 pages
...say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...pleasures of fifteen, At forty-five played o'er again. I 'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Christmas - 1857 - 290 pages
...Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I 'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more...pleasures of fifteen, At forty-five played o'er again. I 'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five,... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys, 429 And if in time of sacred... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...say, the grief's, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...pleasures of fifteen At forty-five played o'er again. Td say we suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; And if in lime of sacred youth,... | |
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