 | India - 1862 - 394 pages
...say, the griefs, the joys* Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are hut repeated in our age. I'd say, your woes were not less...suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than hoys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 638 pages
...imperishable SCOTT? From the Epilojue to Docltir Birch and his Young Friend» THE MORAL OF LIFE. « * * * I 'D say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as...boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve, in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred youth, We learned at home to love and pray, Pray... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 116 pages
...greeting go alway ! Good night ! — I'd say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I 'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more vain, than those of men ; Your pangs or pleasures... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1855 - 526 pages
...greeting go alway ! Good night ! — I'd say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated...pleasures of fifteen At forty-five played o'er again. * These verses were printed at the end of a Christmas Book (1848-9), • ' Dr. Birch and his young... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 260 pages
...greeting go alway ! Good night ! — I'd say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated...boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys. And if, in time of sacred youth, We learned at home to love and pray, Pray... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 110 pages
...greeting go alway ! Good night ! — I'd say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated...pleasures of fifteen, At forty-five played o'er again. I 'd say, we suffer and we strive Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Christmas - 1857 - 290 pages
...kindly greeting go alway ! Good night ! I 'd say : the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated in our age. I 'd say, your woes were not less keen, Your hopes more vain, than those of men ; Your pangs or pleasures... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...greeting go alway! Good-night ! — I'd say, the griefs, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated...boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys, 429 And if in time of sacred youth, We learned at home to love and pray, Pray... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...greeting go alway! Good-night ! — I'd say, the grief's, the joys, Just hinted in this mimic page, The triumphs and defeats of boys, Are but repeated...pleasures of fifteen At forty-five played o'er again. Td say we suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; And if in lime of sacred youth,... | |
 | Alison Reid - 1860 - 430 pages
...their cares ; as bitter, too, as the sorrows of later years years, perhaps. I daresay it is true that " We suffer and we strive Not less, nor more, as men than boys." But we are innocent and pure-hearted in those childish days; we are nearer Heaven when we are young.... | |
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I'd say, we suffer and we strive, Not less nor more as men than boys ; With grizzled beards at forty-five, As erst at twelve in corduroys. 
