 Full fain it would delay me! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen!  Recreations of Christopher North - Page 101by John Wilson - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 536 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star; and once, when he awoke... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 496 pages
...pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his hear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! and I deem it wise To make him... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...entitled " The Nightingale," the child is thus paternally portrayed : That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with hia imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside Ms ear, His little hand, the small fore-finder... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 412 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! and I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star : and onee when he awoke... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1838 - 492 pages
...have been loitering long and pleasantly, Anil now for our dear homes. — That strain again! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of...imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his hear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! and I deem it wise To make him... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1838 - 336 pages
...for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear bahe, Who, capahle of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative...ear, His little hand, the small forefinger up, And hid us listen ! and I deem it wise To make him Nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star :... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 - 634 pages
...have been loitering long end pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ' Foil fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of...articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, Bow he would place his hand beside his ear, Hii little band, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen... | |
 | 1838 - 348 pages
...for our dear homes. — That strain again? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear hahe. Who capahle of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand heside his ear, His little hand, the small fore-finger up. And hid us listen l And I deem it wise To... | |
 | James Stanley Grimes - 1839 - 346 pages
...uncommon manifestation of the other masculine traits. 2D. PARENTIVENESS, OR PHILOPROGENITIVENE8S. " My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound,...hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's Play-mate. He knows well The evening star; and once, when he awoke... | |
 | 1829 - 528 pages
...which, though rather long, we cannot refrain from extracting : — • " That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of...the small fore-finger up, And bid us listen ! And / deem it wise To make him nature's playmate. He knows well The evening star; and once, when he awoke... | |
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