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 470edited by - 1836Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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