 How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your...  Miscellaneous Poems: By Several Hands - Page 53edited by - 1726 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ballads, English - 1732 - 284 pages
...fondly clung; To fee them look their mother's features, To hear them lifp their mother's tongue! ^ And when, with envy, time tranfported Shall think...your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in ray boys. Vanity of refijting LOVE. No, no, no, no, refinance is but vain, And only adds new weight... | |
 | English literature - 1768 - 750 pages
...their mother's features, To hear them lifp their mother's tongue! And when with envy Time tranfportcd, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your...girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Imitation of tlic Flfß Ode of Anacreon. TO deeds of glory I would tune, And touch the trembling chord;... | |
 | Collection - English poetry - 1755 - 378 pages
...creatures, Whilfl round my knees they fondly clung, To fee 'em look their mother's features, To hear 'em lifp their mother's tongue. VIII. And when with envy...our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing in my boys. The GENIU S. ODE, written in 1717, on occaflon of th? Duke of MARYBOROUGH'S... | |
 | John Gilbert Cooper - Aesthetics - 1755 - 168 pages
...fondly clung, To fee 'em look their Mother's Features, To hear 'em lifp their Mother's Tongue! vrii. And when with Envy Time tranfported Shall think to...our Joys, You'll in your Girls again be courted, And I go wooing in my Boys. May all the Prophetic Feelings of future Joys contained in this Song fall to... | |
 | John Gilbert Cooper - Aesthetics - 1757 - 420 pages
...Creatures, Whilft round my Knees they fondly clung, To fee 'em look their Mother's Features, To hear 'em lifp their Mother's Tongue ! VIII. And when with Envy...rob us of our Joys, You'll in your Girls again be courtedi And I go wooing in my Boys. May all the Prophetic Feelings of future Joys contained in this... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...creatures, Whilft round my knees they fondly clung, To fee 'em look their mother's features, To hear 'em lifp their mother's tongue. VIII. And when with envy...our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing in my boys. The GEN 1 US, An ODE, written in 1717, on occafion of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...creatures, Whilft round my knees they fondly clung, To fee 'em look their mother's features, To hear 'em lifp their mother's tongue ! VIII. And when with envy...our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing in my boys. The GENIUS. An ODE, written in 1717, on occafion of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S... | |
 | English poetry - 1765 - 414 pages
...mother's features, To hear 'em lifp their mother's tongue ! VIII. And when with envy Time tranfportcd Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing in my boys. •, The GENIUS. An ODE, written in 1717, on occafion of the Duke of MARLBOROUGH'S... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1765 - 406 pages
...they fondly clung; To fee them look their mother's features, To hear them lifp their mother's tongue. And, when with envy time tranfported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, 30 You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go a wooing with my boys. XVI. JEMMY DAWSON. This... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...fondly clung, To fee 'em look their mother's features, To hear 'em lifp their mother's tongue ! Vffl. And when with envy Time tranfported Shall think to...our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing with my boys. The GENIUS. An ODE, written in 1717, on occafion of the Duke of MARL BOROUGH'S... | |
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