 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...of his own. H. X Our early notices of truth, disgrac'd, Soon lose their credit, and are all efFac'd, Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious,...these at once; That, in good time, the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense and fashionable waste Should prove your ruin and his own at last;... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...sparingly enough ; Our early notices of truth, disgrac'd, Soon lose their credit, and are all effac'd. Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious,...these at once ; That, in good time, the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense and fashionable waste Should prove your ruin and his own at last ;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...VOL. II. K ' Our early notices of truth, disgraced, Soon lose their cred.it, a.nd arc all effaced. Would you you,r son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious, headstrong, or all these at ence; That in good time the strip] teg's ;finUhed For loose expense, and fashionable waste, Should... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...truth, disgrac'd, .'. <. '* Soon lose their credit, and are all eflac'd. ' Would you your son should he a sot or dunce,' Lascivious, headstrong, or all these at once; That in good time the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense, and fashionahle waste, Should prove your ruin, and his own at last... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...sparingly enough ; Our early notices of truth, disgrac'd, Soon lose their credit, and are all eftVc'd. Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious,...headstrong, or all these at once ; That in good time the i For loose expense, Should prove your ruin, • The author brgs leave to explain.— Sensible that,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...merely that K 2 Our early notices of truth, disgrac'd, Soon lose their credit, and are all effac'd. Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious,...these at once ; That in good time the stripling's finish' d taste For loose expense, and fashionable waste, Should prove your ruin, and his own at last;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...notices of truth, disgraced, Soon lose their credit, and are all effaced. Would you your son should he a sot or dunce, Lascivious, headstrong, or all these...; That in good time the stripling's finished taste "i For loose expense, and fashionahle waste, .Should prove your ruin, and his own at last : > * The... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - American poetry - 1818 - 192 pages
...improperly relax'd, Cowper condemns them in severest style, ' As almost nuisances in Britain's Isle. " Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious,...these at once, That, in good time the stripling's finish'd taste May prove your ruin, and his own at last, Train him in publick with a herd of boys.... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...sparingly enough ; Our early notices of truth, disgrao'd, Soon lose their credit, and are all effac'd. Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious,...these at once ; That in good time the stripling's finish 'd taste For loose expense, and fashionable waste, Should prove your ruin, and his own at last... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...early notices of truth, disgraced, Soon lose their credit, and are all effaced. Would you your SOD should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious, headstrong,...all these at once; That in good time the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense, and fashionable waste, Should prove your rnin, and his own at last... | |
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Would you your son should be a sot or dunce, Lascivious, headstrong, or all these at once ; That in good time the stripling's finish'd taste For loose expense and fashionable waste Should prove your ruin, and his own at last ; Train him in public with... 
