 | Brander Matthews - American poetry - 1904 - 338 pages
...paper every infant mind ; Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - American wit and humor - 1908 - 260 pages
...paper every infant mind ! Then still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption), I — No wit, no genius — yet for once will try. • Various... | |
 | Marshall Pinckney Wilder - American literature - 1911 - 260 pages
...paper every infant mind ! Then still, as opening sense her dictates wrote; Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption), I — No wit, no genius — yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | Leon Loyal Winslow - Industrial arts - 1922 - 362 pages
...paper every infant's mind, Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair Virtue put a seal or Vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue, Various the papers various wants produce — The wants of fashion, elegance, and use; Men are... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 pages
...paper every infant mind; Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...paper every infant mind ; I Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption 0 — I. No wit, no genius, yet for once will tiy. Various... | |
 | Thomas Augustine Daly - American poetry - 1926 - 172 pages
...paper every infant mind; Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I— No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | English essays - 1772 - 972 pages
...clear blank Paper ev'ry infant mind; When (till, as opming feflfe-herdicr.at.es wrote, Fair Virtue pot a feal, or Vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent,...genius might the plan purfue. J — can you pardon my prefumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various the Pjpers various warm produce,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Alfred Howard - 1834 - 206 pages
...paper every infant mind ; When still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pages
...paper, every infant mind ; Where, still, as opening sense her +dictates wrote, Pair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot The thought was happy, +pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. 2. I, (can you pardon my presumption ?) I, No wit, no genius, yet, for once, will try. Various... | |
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I — No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various the papers various wants produce, The wants of fashion, elegance, and use. 
