 | 1851 - 496 pages
...of whomsoever he has taught, And learn, though late, the genuine cause of all. SCHOOL-DAYS. BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at Tiov\e. 246 SELECTIONS FROM THE BEITISH POETS. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The very... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 624 pages
...there, While colts and puppies cost us so much cam 1 Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, Wo dignant to the slighted plough. He hates the field,...in which no fife or dram Attends him ; drives his c the sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill. The very name we carved... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 304 pages
...send our sons to scout and scamper there, While colts and puppies cost us so much care? 295 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, 300 The very name we carved subsisting still, The bench on which we sat while deep employed,... | |
 | Léon Boucher - 1874 - 454 pages
...ce passage, que Cowper ne fut pas trop malheureux à Westminster. Il en sortit pour commen'' Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place...of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heait is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1874 - 136 pages
...little further on. 12. War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; Honour but an empty bubble. 13. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. 14. Leaves have their time to fall ; And flowers to wither at the North-wind's breath. EXERCISE 90.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...labyrinth holds fast the cluo That education gives her, false or true. COWPER : Progress of Error. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, — We love the...is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at home. CowPER : Tirocinium. gold, — Hear, Lord, the song of praise and prayer, In heaven thy dwelling-place,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 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...early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is atone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill,... | |
 | Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth - 1876 - 292 pages
...at home, if you happen to see them. " Yours, very sincerely, "WALTER PlKE." CHAPTER VII. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days." Cotvper's " Tirocinium." WE must now shift our scene to Westminster, where Walter was at school, in... | |
 | Philorphanos (pseud.) - 1877 - 244 pages
...CHILDREN. EDITED BY THE AUTHOE OP " KI.f.KRTON PBIOBY j" "CLAIBE MA1TLAND," &O. " Be it a weakness, tt deserves some praise, We love the play.place of our...stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at noue. » * • * This fond attachment to the well.known place, Whence first we started into life's... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1881 - 302 pages
...Launfal flashed forth in his unscarred mail To seek in all climes for the Holy Grail.— Lowell. 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 wall on which we tried our graving skill. The very name we carved... | |
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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. 
