 | 1888 - 252 ページ
...No moment but in purchase of its worth ; And what its worth, ask death-beds ; they can tell. Young. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, "We love...stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. Cowper. We are stronger, and are better, Under manhood's sterner reign ; . Still we feel that something... | |
 | George Williamson (of Greenock.) - 1888 - 398 ページ
...different localities.2 Many interesting associations haunt the old Grammar School and its surroundings. " We love the playplace of our early days, The scene...stone That feels not at that sight and feels at none." Ccneper — Tirocinium. The " courses " round which " hounds and hare," and " spy" were played, still... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 ページ
...their trust, 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...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, Though... | |
 | 1889 - 934 ページ
...and Poesy When I was young! When I was young '/ Ah, woful when! /. COLEKIIJOE — Youth and Age. Bo it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the...stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none, tn. COWPER— Tirocinium. Line 296. Youth what man's age is like to be doth show ; We may our ends... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1889 - 356 ページ
...play-place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at the sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried...graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting < till ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed;... | |
 | Peter Mackenzie - 1890 - 658 ページ
...former times, now strangely diversified ; but our apace precludes us from doing it in these pages, — " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise ; We love...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none." Still, we may give the following faithful copy of the memorable requisition itself, with the notice... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 576 ページ
...was expressly written to " recommend private tuition at home " gives some idea of school happiness. "Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, — We...subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 620 ページ
...their trust, 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...subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 746 ページ
...the pleasures of his school-days as of his crosses and troubles. In after years he could say : — " We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene...subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones unbuttoned, glowing... | |
 | 1893 - 352 ページ
...and buckles ; but the texture of the cloth provided by statute was so coarse that the friends of 1 " The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The...subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat, while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed." COWPER. the children furnished apparel... | |
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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. 
