 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...  The Young Lady's Reader - Page 75by Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 458 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1772 - 376 pages
...die. Behold the child , by nature's kindly law , 275 Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier 'play-thing gives his youth delight,...louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : ago Pleas'd with this bauble... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1774 - 324 pages
...illuftrious Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas' d with a rattle, tickled with a fir aw. Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight ',...louder, but as empty quite. Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper Jiage ; And .beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...Hope travels thro', nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier...garters, gold amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age ; 280 Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : 280 Pleas'd with this bauble... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 392 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, z75 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : z So Pleas'd with this bauble... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...when we dieBehold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, anuife his riper ftage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble ftill,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 562 pages
...nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, ticlded with a straw: Some livelier play-thing gives his youth...quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, Arid beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ;... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 398 pages
...we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 275 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper ftage, And beads and prayer-books arc the toys of age : 280 Pleas'd Pleas'd with this... | |
 | Beauties - 1791 - 214 pages
...when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraw : Some livelier play-thing gives his youth delight,...louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amufe his riper fiagc : And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of nge : Fleas'd with this bauble flill,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly Jaw, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a ftraifr; clafping amufe his riper ftagc, And beads and pray'r-books arc the toys of age : Pieas'd with this bauble ftill,... | |
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