 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...  Letters Concerning Taste - Strana 98podľa John Gilbert Cooper - 1755 - Počet stránok 143Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - Počet stránok 738
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue ! And when with envy Time transported, . , 訫 ɘ 8 * n{jmq _ .$ u˯휂(^z F g s ? ݉3 ! An k ޤ I'll go wooing in my boys. TRAGIC DRAMATISTS. The tragic drama of this period bore the impress of the... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1844 - Počet stránok 400
...their mothers features, To hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, * You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go a wooing in my boys. XIV. THE WITCH OF WOKEY — was published in a small collection of poems,... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1845 - Počet stránok 446
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together ; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seoks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my hoys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1846 - Počet stránok 454
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys.' " So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1847 - Počet stránok 470
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a... | |
 | 1898 - Počet stránok 712
...occur the well-known lines (often referred to in ' N. A Q.') :— And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'II go wooing in my boys. There is this foot-note to the lyric: "This pleasing delineation of conjugal... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - Počet stránok 630
...happily expressed by a poet of no great eminence — " And when with envy time transporte d, Shall seek to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing on my boys." It is possible, very possible, that half the hopes thus formed may disappoint us ; the... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1850 - Počet stránok 544
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together : •"And when with envy Time, transported, seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - Počet stránok 592
...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 girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Surely this is the sort of poetry that ought to be popular—to be sung... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - Počet stránok 532
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together: "' And when with envy Time, transported, seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
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