| Children's poetry - 1857 - 300 pages
...cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. WATTS. CA8ABIANOA. 167 CASABIANCA.... | |
| Eliza Leslie - Amusements - 1857 - 706 pages
...the mind or exercising the body, and at the same time interesting the attention. SPORTS AND PASTIMES. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be pass'd. WATTs. SOME of these plays require a more minute explanation than others. We will suppose a... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Readers - 1858 - 132 pages
...something ill For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. XXV.-THE BEAR AND HER CUBS. n&ugh'ty dis-pute' fight'ing cor'ner brought cer'tain. 3 them-sSlve?' brolh'er?... | |
| American poetry - 1915 - 488 pages
...of labor or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. Isaac Watts [1674-1748] 'LET DOGS... | |
| Readers - 1912 - 172 pages
...of labor or of skill I would be busy, too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. THE CONCEITED APPLE BRANCH HANS CHRISTIAN... | |
| Michigan - 1912 - 866 pages
...age, 1832, appears this verse: "On books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last." A sampler owned in my family is embroidered in memory of my great grandmother's sister and brother,... | |
| Thomas Wright - 1914 - 382 pages
...labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first...may give for every day Some good account at last." Some of the thoughts in Song 18, " Against scoffing and calling names," reappear in the verses at the... | |
| Lewis Carroll - 1914 - 218 pages
...labor, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books or work or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for ev'ry day Some good account at last. Father William was written by Robert Southey, an English poet,... | |
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