 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...from the sum of human existence. EXERCISE 103. On the receipt of his Mother's Picture. — COWTER. Could Time, his flight reversed, restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture•s tissued flowers, The violet, the pink, the jessamine, I pricked them into paper with a... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...cataracts and breaks That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little noticed here. ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. TOLL for the brave... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...breaks, That humour interposed too often makes ; — All this, still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay 6 Such honours to thee as my numbers may ; — Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorned in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may : Perbaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heaven, though little noticed here. Could Time,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...and breaks Tn.it humour intcrpos'd too often makes ; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, An>J s.till to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honours to thec as my numbers may : Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little... | |
 | John D. Post - Readers - 1842 - 314 pages
...cataracts and breaks That humor interposed, too often makes ; All this, still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay* Such honors to thee as my numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorned in heaven, though... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...breaks' That', humour1 interposed', too often makes'; All this', still legible in memory's page', And still to be so to my latest age', Adds joy to duty', makes me glad to p;iy' Such honours to thee as my numbers may'; Perhaps a frail memorial', but sincere', Not scorned... | |
 | English poetry - 1843 - 368 pages
...cataracts and breaks That humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in mem'ry's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty,...glad to pay Such honours to thee as my numbers may ; Pethaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in Heav'n, though little noticed here. ON THE... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1843 - 184 pages
...cataracts and breaks, That humor interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so to my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to pay Such honors to thee as my numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorned in Heaven, though... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...humour interposed too often makes ; All this still legible in memory's page, And still to be so till my latest age, Adds joy to duty, makes me glad to...numbers may ; Perhaps a frail memorial, but sincere, Not scorn'd in heaven, though little noticed here. Could time, his flight reversed, restore the hours.... | |
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All this, and, more endearing still than all, Thy constant flow of love, that knew no fall — Ne'er roughened by those cataracts and breaks That humour interposed too often makes ; All this, still legible in memory's page. And still to be so to my latest... 
