 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...uupitied and alone. 2 When first thy Sire to send on earth, Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind : Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was thou badest her know, And... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee3 he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse, thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 pages
...unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore ; What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, designed, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern nigged nurse, thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her... | |
 | Bernhard Freiherr von Tauchnitz - English literature - 1860 - 468 pages
...unpitied and alone. 2 When first thy Sire to send on earth, Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind: Stern rugged nurse! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore; What sorrow was thou badest her know, And... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 456 pages
...When firft thy fire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own fhe learn'd to melt at others' woe.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...unpitied and alone. 2. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore Wife patience many a year she bore : What sflrrow was, thou bad'st her know,... | |
 | English poetry - 1863 - 438 pages
...unpitied and alone. When first thy Sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,... | |
 | Life-lights - 1864 - 344 pages
...unpitied, and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurse, thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...unpitied and alone. When first thy sire to send on earth Virtue, his darling child, design'd, To thee he gave the heavenly, birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern, rugged nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was thou bad'st her know, And... | |
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To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others 
