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" 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 poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by R. Carruthers - Page 271
by Alexander Pope - 1853
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...Hope travels through, 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 NOTES. But wanting another proper instance of this truth, he...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...common friend : See some fit passion every age supply; Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A...stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er....
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...Trifles please and delight children and youth : — JBehold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier...youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite. POPB. Another poet thus speaks of juvenile joys: — i- .• See on yon carpet, mantled o'er with flow'rs,...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 552 pages
...with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives hin youth delight, A little luuder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse...; And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till, tir'd, he sleeps,— and life's poor play is...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...supply, Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier...Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And cards and counters are the toys of age ; • Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas' d nce, The people's brave, the politician's tool ; Never...religion and the laws Should more be Absalom's than ; Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er....
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...travels through, 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...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 29 Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 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: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; Till tir'd he sleeps,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...Maxim 36. Warton. . Ver. 274. Hope travels through, Sfc.] Is this hope then no more voL. V. I than Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A...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...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 468 pages
...absolute identity may not be equally consistent? " Behold the child, by nature's kindly Jaw, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier...youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarf, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage : And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleas'd...
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