 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
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...our own delights, That, viewing it, we seem almost t' 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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 342 pages
...price, The purchase dreadful, but the portion nice ; This fond attachment to the well-known place, When first we started into life's long race, Maintains...it e'en in age and at our latest day." — COWPER. (1) [In this description Mr. Crabbe, condescended to borrow, though pro* bably with some alterations... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1849 - 522 pages
...has so well translated feeling into words ? — " 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." • Since writing the above, Sir David Dundas has resigned hi* situation as Solicitor General. NOTES... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 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...Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it even in age, and at our latest day. Hark ! how the sire of chits, whose future share Of classic food... | |
 | Robert Southey - Hymn writers - 1839 - 354 pages
...obtain Our innocent, sweet, simple years again. 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. 9 So far indeed were the years which Cowper passed at Westminster from being years of misery, that... | |
 | Robert Southey - Hymn writers - 1839 - 352 pages
...obtain Our innocent, sweet, simple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place Where first we started into life's long race, Maintains...unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.9 So far indeed were the years which Cowpor passed at Westminster from being years of misery, that... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1839 - 344 pages
...the portion nice ; This fond attachment to the well-known place, When first we started into life•s long race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing...it e'en in age and at our latest day." — COWPER. (1) [In this description Mr. Crabbe, condescended to borrow, though pro. bably with some alterations... | |
 | Anne Pratt - Biography - 1841 - 270 pages
...knuckle down at taw; To pitch the ball into the grounded hat, Or drive it devious with a dexterous pat. This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence...race, Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway \\'v feel it ev'n in age, and at our latest day." Many now young, when they afterwards look back upon... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...our own delights, That, viewing it, we seem almost t: obtain Our innocent sweet :;imple years again. This fond attachment to the well-known place, Whence first we started into life's long race, 315 Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. Hark... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - Moral education - 1842 - 338 pages
...not uncommon : as Cowper has beautifully said : " 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." And speaking in a letter of his mother, who died when he was a boy, he writes, — nearly fifty years... | |
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