See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! - wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable... The Quarterly Review - Page 4681836Full view - About this book
| James Thomas Fields - 1881 - 412 pages
...how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten...his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon, — no coal-heaver bolteth him in reeking sausages, — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of... | |
| 1881 - 578 pages
...how meek he lieth I — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility P. Nimmo & co. on obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these... | |
| Oneida Historical Society at Utica - 1881 - 1106 pages
...written — that on a newborn infant, by Robert Lowth, who declined the archbishopric of Canterbury: " 'Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care, The op'ning bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there ! " But if it is a blessing or sign of... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 pages
...how meek he lieth 1 — Wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten...while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon ; no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the... | |
| Edward Moxon (and co.) - 1882 - 580 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten...snatched away — Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Degth came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half... | |
| Lawrence Brooke - 1882 - 270 pages
...all come, gentle and semple, young and old. Of such an innocent life it surely might be said, — ' Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care ; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.' A week had elapsed from that sorrowful... | |
| Alfred Ainger - 1882 - 216 pages
...should " grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood — " ' Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Death came with timely care.' " And, now and then, with the true instinct of a poet, he throws a new and lasting halo over a homely... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1884 - 546 pages
...how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten...his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon, — no coal-heaver bolteth him in reeking sausages, — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 pages
...grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinchood ? Ten to one he would have provtda glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal...from these sins he is happily snatched away, — Ere stn could bliyht or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous, — no... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1885 - 296 pages
...how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had thjs innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to...his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages— he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the... | |
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