| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...paper every infant mind ; Where still, as opening sense fier dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius mignt the plan pursue. I, (can you pardon my presumption >) 1 — No wit, no genius, — yet for once... | |
| Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1867 - 674 pages
...blank paper every infant mind; Then still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption), I — No wit, no genius — yet for once will try. Various... | |
| Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...ev'ry infant mind ; | Where, still, as opening sense Aer dictates wr'ote, | Fair Virtue put a seal, | or Vice, a blot. | The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; | Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. | I (can you pardon my presumption ?), 1 1, No wit, no genius, | yet, for once, will try. |... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...paper" every infant mindv, Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote', Fair Virtue1 put a seal', or Vice" a blot\ The thought' was happy\ pertinent', and true' ! — Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I — (can you pardon my presumption' ?) — I, No wit', no genius', yet, for once', will try'.... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 382 pages
...paper" every infant mind', Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote', Fair Virtue' put a seal', or Vice" a blot'. The thought' was happy', pertinent', and true' ! — Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I — (can you pardon my presumption' ?) — I, No wit', no genius', yet, for once', will try\... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1873 - 730 pages
...paper every infant mind, Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. " The thought was happy, pertinent, and true : Methinks a genius mi^ht the plan pursue. I — can you pardon my presumption? — I, No wit. no gralus, yet for once... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...paper every infant mind, Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I — can you pardon my presumption ? — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...paper every infant mind ; Where still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal, or vice a blot, The thought was happy, pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (can you pardon my presumption ?) — I, No wit, no genius, yet for once will try. Various... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1867 - 498 pages
...paper, every infant mind ; Where, still, as opening sense her ^dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a, seal, or vice a blot The thought was happy, ^pertinent, and true ; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. 2. I, (can you pardon my presumption ?) I, No wit, no genius, yet, for once, will try. Various... | |
| Phineas Garrett - Readers - 1878 - 874 pages
...blank paper every infant mind ; Then still, as opening sense her dictates wrote, Fair virtue put a seal or vice a blot. The thought was happy, pertinent, and true; Methinks a genius might the plan pursue. I (mil you pardon my presumption), I — No wit, no genius — yet for once will try. Various... | |
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