 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...humour interposed too often makes : All this still legible in mein'ry's page, And still to be so till my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in heav'n, though little noticed here." This interesting woman, his Mother, was descended through... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...often makes; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy..to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thee as...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little notic'd here. Could time, his flight revers'd, restore the hours,... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...sorrow spent, I learned at last submission to my lot, But though I less deplored thee, ne'er forgot. Could Time, his flight reversed, restore the hours When playing with thy vesture s tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, and jessamine, I pricked them mto paper with a pin,... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humour interpos'd too often makes ; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little notic'd here. Could Time,his flightrevers'd,restore the hours, When,... | |
 | New elegant extracts - 1827 - 402 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Notscorn'd in heaven, though little noticed here. Could Time,hisflightreversed,restore the hours, When,... | |
 | Christian poetry, English - 1828 - 398 pages
...cataraets and breaks, That humour interpos'd too often makes ; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not acorn'd in Heav'n, though little notic'd here. Could Time, his flight revers'd, restore the hours When,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humour interpos'd too often makes; All this, still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little notic'd here. Could Time, his flight revers'd, restore the hours,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humour interpos'd too often makes ; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little notic'd here. Could Time, his flight revers'd, restore the hours,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...cataracts and breaks That humour interpos'd too often makes : All this still legible in memory's page. And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scornM in Heav'n, though little notic'd here. Could Time, his flight revers'd, restore the hours. When,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...may ; Perhaps a 'frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heaven, though little noticed here. Could Time, his flightreversed, restore the hours, When,... | |
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All this, and, more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall — Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks That humour interposed too often makes ; All this, still legible in memory's page. And still to be so to my latest... 
