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 | English poetry - 1809 - 488 pages
...wisdom trod, And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart...enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fi»—— Were wont to trip alone- ***•— £16 LORD LYTTELTON.... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...wisdom trod, And banish'd ev'ry passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart...the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns, By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah !... | |
 | English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...trod, c3 ■ 1 And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart...the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah ! where... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...wisdom trod, And banish'd every passion from her breast. But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart...enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful faw V ere wont to trip along these verdant law us By your... | |
 | Rev. John Bennett - Conduct of life - 1811 - 260 pages
...guide ? Ah ! where is now the hand, whose tender care To ev'ry virtue would have form'd your, youth, Sweet babes, who, like the little, playful fawns, Were wont to trip along those verdant lawns, . And strew'd with flow'rs the thorny ways of truth, O loss beyond repair ! O... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...No more my mournful eye, Can ought of her espy, But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie. Sweet babes, who like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns, By your- deliginted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide? I ON... | |
 | Rev. John Bennett - Young women - 1818 - 408 pages
...wisdom trod, And banish'd ev'ry passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames, with energy divine, The virtuous heart...enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love. Sweet babe* who, like the little, playful fawn* Were wont to trip along those verdant lawns, By your... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 482 pages
...No more my mournful eye Can aught of her espy* But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide ? Ah! where... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 498 pages
...mournful eye Can aught of her espy, But the sad sacred earth where her dear relics lie. * * * 0 * * * 0, Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your delighted mother's side, Who now your infant steps shall guide? Ah! where... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 276 pages
...wisdom trod, And banish'd every passion from her breast, But those, the gentlest and the best, Whose holy flames with energy divine The virtuous heart...enliven and improve, The conjugal and the maternal love. Sweet babes, who, like the little playful fawns, Were wont to trip along these verdant lawns By your... | |
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