 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 81by Alexander Pope - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage. And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ; 28 i 'Till tired... | |
 | William Scott - 1829 - 420 pages
...little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And cards and counters are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still,...Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Mean while opinion gilds, with varying rays, Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want... | |
 | 1829 - 842 pages
...virtues 1 " Behold Ida child by nature'i kindly law, Pleased vvith a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A...quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, Bibles and prayer-books are the loyi of age." But it is no problem, and no matter of question, that... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...in his muse. 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...empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper age, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...* • » * * 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...empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper age, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...when we die. 29 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...Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er' 30 Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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 bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps,... | |
 | 1914 - 770 pages
...ages: Behold the child by nature's kindly law Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livlier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,...garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of Age. Pleased^ith this bauble, as with that before, "Till tir'd he sleeps... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...stage; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: 280 ¿ if. How useful these are to SOCIETY in general, and to INDIVIDUALS in particular, in every STATE,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 pages
...OF LIKE. ' Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; A livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Gold, garters, scarfs, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age; Pleased... | |
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