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" Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 81
by Alexander Pope - 1804
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight; A...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this hauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps,...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, hut as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...nature's kindly law, Pieas'd with a rattle, 'irkled with a straw; iymte livelier plaything gives hi - youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Plcas'd .with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tir'd he sleep*, and Life's poor play is o'er....
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play -thing gives' his youth delight, A little louder, but as...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : 28O Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Broome, Pope, Pitt ...

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 538 pages
...by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : iome livelier play-thing gites his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite:...Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And brads and prayer-books are the toys of age: 280 as'd with this bauble still, as that before; П tir'd...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1810 - 562 pages
...— Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Koin.' livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little...but as empty quite : " Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse tis riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...kindly law, Plr.as'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youlh delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And brads anil fray cr-hooks are the toys of age : 230 Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before;...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 1, Part 2

1810 - 558 pages
...Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth A little louder, bnt as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys delight, Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, of age: Till tired...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 1

1810 - 560 pages
...rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A tittle louder, bnt as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps,...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 368 pages
...not make of the great baby ? " Behold the child ! \ "Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; " Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, "A little louder, but as empty quite: " Stuck o'er with titles, and hung round with strings, " Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper years;...
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