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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. "
The borough: a poem, in twenty-four letters - Page 271
by George Crabbe - 1816
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very...subsisting still; The bench on which we sat while deep employ 'd, Tho' mangled, hack'd, and he w'd, not yet destroy'd : The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing...
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Beauties of Cowper: To which are Prefixed, a Life of the Author and ...

William Cowper - 1801 - 284 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very...deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd: The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot;...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very...deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet deThe little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, [stroy'd : Playing our games, and on the very spot...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still; The bench on which we sat while deep errployed, Tho' mangled,hacked,and hewed,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd suhsisting still ; The hench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Tho' mangled, hack'd, and hew'd,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1810 - 384 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very...still; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd Tho' mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing...
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Poems [ed. by J. Newton]. Illustr. with engr. from the designs of ..., Volume 2

William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carv'd subsisting still; The bench on which we sat while deep employ 'd, Tho' mangled, hack'd,and hew'd, not yctdeslroy'd : The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very...still; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd Tho' mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd; The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing hot, Playing...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1814 - 376 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very...subsisting still;' The bench on which we sat while deep employ 'd, Though mangled, hack 'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy 'd : The little ones, unbutton'd, glowing...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1814 - 370 pages
...The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd, subsisting stiil ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, notyet destroy...
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