 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
 | Charles Lamb - 1901 - 120 pages
...up to the gross-10 ness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one Vie would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate,...disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation—from these sins he is happily snatched away — 15 Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1901 - 200 pages
...second cradle, how meek he lieth 1 Would'st thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have grown up a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 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?...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... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 320 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?...proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal—wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation—from these sins he is happily snatched away—... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1903 - 542 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...would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, dis- V agreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 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...care — ' his memory is odoriferous — no clown curse th, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1904 - 460 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth ! — 25 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 — 30 Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 674 pages
...the dawn of life, when only four years old. Do you remember those exquisite lines of Coleridge, — " Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care, The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there." I think I can never know a sorrow greater... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...this innocent grow up to the grossness and indoeility which too often accompany maturer swine25 hood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven,...snatched away — " Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, 30 Death came with timely care "— his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1905 - 352 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth ! — 25 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 — 30 Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care — in reeking sausages —... | |
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