 | William Carus Wilson - 1846 - 588 pages
...no place on earth has such a charm to us as it. Of this fact, Cowper beautifully and truly says— " Be it weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. *********** This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started into life's long... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...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 employ'd,... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...Buckinghamshire, during a part of the time that Cowper lived at Olney in the same county. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days, The wall on which we tried our carving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still, The bench on which... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pages
...not an lago, but perfidy, not a Brutus, but patriotism. CHAPTER X. EARLY RECOLLECTIONS. — " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We* love the play-place...touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at the sight, and feels at none. The wall2 on which we tried our graving skill, 5 The very name we carved... | |
 | My old pupils - 1849 - 212 pages
...you, I should have placed him under his care. I think it is Sir Walter Scott, who says : — ' Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise — We love the...and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carv'd subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat, while deep employ'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 pages
...To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...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-employ'd,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...To send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care ? Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace...touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at the sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very name we carved... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-plaee of onr early days ; The seene is tonehing, 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 still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd,... | |
 | 1850 - 396 pages
...EDUCATION RECOLLECTION OF SCHOOL DA7S. Be it a weakness, it deserve« some praise. To love ihr play -place of our early days ; The scene is touching; and the heart is stone That Icels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very... | |
 | lord William Pitt Lennox - 1851 - 870 pages
...run, the purchaser will find that the cheapest articles are not always the best. CHAPTER VI. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise — We love the...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none." COWPER. Cricket — The annual match at Westminster between the Town boys and King scholars — Sports... | |
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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. 
