 | 1850 - 538 páginas
...inscribed, Sic via eat hominum, and the four ages are characterised by the following verses:— (1) Behold the child by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. (2) Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite. (3) Scarfs,... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - 1850 - 578 páginas
...inscribed, Sic via at hominum, and the four ages are characterised by the following verses: — (1) Behold the child by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. (2) Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite. (3) Scarfs,... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1850 - 356 páginas
...tastes far different from ours, yet none the less fitting to their age than ours are to manhood, — " By Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw." Let us not boast ourselves of superiority to them ; for to higher orders of being it doubtless appears... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1851 - 614 páginas
...diversity can we give, with which this affirmation of absolute identity may not be equally consistent : Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 páginas
...then "the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh." " 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 little louder, but as empty quite : Searf3, garters, gold amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | David Noyes - 1852 - 228 páginas
...being, while physical and mental faculties are capable of enjoyment. For, as a great poet says — . " Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleased...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 páginas
...supply ; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275 Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Some...play-thing 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... | |
 | 1852 - 874 páginas
...; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd illiam Wordsworth but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage. And beads and prayer-books are the... | |
 | George Edward Rice, John Howard Wainwright - 1852 - 116 páginas
...present time Of writing this agreeable rhyme, — When I was at that tender age When children are " by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw." (See Pope — but I forget the page,) I used to be delighted to peruse The immortal melodies of Mother... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 342 páginas
...supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 275 Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some...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... | |
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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... 
