 That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 434edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Robert Naismith - Stonehouse (Scotland : Town) - 1885 - 230 pages
...BARONY, &c. " Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. This fond attachment to the well-known place, , Whence...Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it even in age and at our latest day." SIR WILLIAM THE FLEMING, "DE DOUGLAS," I. OF STANHUS. FURTHER than... | |
 | Edward Marston, Author of An amateur angler's days in Dove Dale - Fishing - 1887 - 160 pages
...was when I first knew these trees and that old farmhouse, and those with whom I had known them — " This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence...Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it even in age and at our latest day." I am becoming sentimental ; the contemplation of a holiday should... | |
 | Edward Marston, Author of An amateur angler's days in Dove Dale - Fishing - 1887 - 162 pages
...I was when I first knew these trees and that old farmhouse, and those with whom I had known them— "This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence...race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feelit even in age and at our latest day." I am becoming sentimental; the contemplation of a holiday... | |
 | Francis Jacob Ruth, J. Crouse - Lutheran Church - 1888 - 196 pages
...hours ?.f home were spent, and how well he enjoyed them. "This fond attachment to the well-known pface. Whence first we started into life's long race, Maintains...sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day." It would be an injustice to this account of his life to pass by an event that transpired during his... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...our own delights, That, viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence...sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. Hark ! how the sire of chits, whose future share Of classic food begins to be his care, With his own... | |
 | 1890 - 786 pages
...sweet, simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started in life's long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it even in age, and at our latest day." But visiting the Highland hills and glens, what do we now find... | |
 | James Wolfendale - Bible - 1890 - 350 pages
...circumnavigator of the world is less influenced by all the nations he has seen t.han by his nurse " " The fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started into life's long race, Retains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day" [Con-jier].... | |
 | Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1891 - 574 pages
...our own delights, That viewing it, we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence...sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day." Probably we pursue an insoluble problem in seeking a suitable education for a morbidly melancholy mind.... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1891 - 556 pages
...a parent can bestow. Washington Irving. LOVE OF. This fond attachment to the well known place Where first we started into life's long race, Maintains...sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. Co'.vper. There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - Teachers in literature - 1892 - 606 pages
...of our own delights, That viewing it we seem almost to obtain Our innocent sweet simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence...sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. Hark ! how the sire of chits, whose future share Of classic food begins to be his care, With his own... | |
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