 | Childhood - 1841 - 384 ページ
...hopes, an unseen heavenly band Of guardian spirits, sent by Him above, TYROCINIUM. COWPER. [EXTRACT.] BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love...subsisting still; The bench on which we sat, while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed: The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1841 - 270 ページ
...with the feeling expressed by Cowper, and felt by many others :— Be it a weakness, it deserves tome praise, We love the play-place of our early days;...we carved subsisting still. The bench, on which we sate while deep employed, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroyed; The little ones, unbutton'd,... | |
 | George Wickham - 1841 - 258 ページ
...Gesner's ' Death of Abel," a work eminently calculated to improve the minds of the young. 108 CHAPTER X. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, — We...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The little ones unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1841 - 522 ページ
...reception from one Westminster to another. I almost fancied myself a boy again ; I felt, with Cowper, " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise , We love...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none." was subjected to. Shall I enumerate them ? Tormented, as a new comer ; kicked and pinched, by way of... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 ページ
...puppies cost us so much care i 205 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 fuels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carv'd subsisting... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 358 ページ
...he draws a picture which shows with how much pleasure he looked back upon that part of his boyhood. Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love...graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still; Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed;... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 352 ページ
...of his boyhood. We love the play-place of our early days; Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That...graving skill, The very name we carved subsisting still; Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed;... | |
 | 1853 - 672 ページ
...in the commonest sports of boyhood, so that little sympathy could he have with Cowper's lines : — We love the play-place of our early days ; The scene...subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and bowed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing... | |
 | 1844 - 332 ページ
...child who could break such cords of love? Rochester, Mast., Jan., 1844. PLAT-PLACE OF OUR EARLY DATS. BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love...days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, Which feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The... | |
 | 1844 - 288 ページ
...alike cool and peaceful ; at midday the sun may burn, and men may labour under it. — DR. ARNOLD. BE it a weakness, it deserves some praise,— We love the play-place pf our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sigbt —... | |
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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. 
