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" 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 470
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Epigrams & epigraphs, by the author of Proverbial folk-lore

Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877 - 192 pages
...or beating shower, So (rod removes with providential hand Betimes his loved ones to a better land. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care : The opening bud to heaven conveyed And bade it blossom there. Bishop Lowth. On 3 Children WCMCWHC...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer »winehood ? mies саше with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half...
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Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...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...conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — Kre sin could blight or sorrow fade. Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness .65 and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood...snatched away " Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, 170 Death came with timely care." His memory is odoriferous; no clown curseth, while his stomach half...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

1881 - 578 pages
...second cradle, how meek he lieth I — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and O; on obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these...
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Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society at Utica, Volumes 1-5

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...
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Moxon's Standard readings and recitations, ed. by T. Hood

Edward Moxon (and co.) - 1882 - 580 pages
...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...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...
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Three fair daughters, Volume 3

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...
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Charles Lamb, Volume 9

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...
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Favorite Authors in Prose and Poetry

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...
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