 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...77. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home. Line 153. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; The sports of children satisfy the child. Line 172. But winter lingering chills the lap of May. Line 217. So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 596 Seiten
...crown. It was a gambol with his dog that suggested to him the pretty couplet in " The Traveler:" " By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child." But from sports like these he was summoned back to his desk, and, in addition to the bulky compilations... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By snorts like these ore all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child;' Each nobler aim, represt by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While low delights, succeeding... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 Seiten
...for Sir Joshua Reynolds called on him one day and read the inkwet couplet on the author's desk — " By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; The sports of children satisfy the child," On the floor, in the centre of the room, sat a little dog on his haunches, wistfully looking at his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1858 - 336 Seiten
...last lines on the page before him were still wet ; they form a part of the description of Italy : " By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child." Goldsmith, with his usual good-humour, joined in the laugh caused by his whimsical employment, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions form'd for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child;1 t-*z hi Urea lie would have inferred It more." Again : " Whether, Indeed, we take him u * poet,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 Seiten
...triumph and the cavalcade ; Processions formed for piety and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the chilil ; Each nobler aim, repressed by long control, Now sinks at last, or feebly mans the soul; While... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1859 - 618 Seiten
...for picty and love, A mistress or a saint in every grove. By sports like these are all their eares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child...last, or feebly mans the soul ; While low delights, sueceeding fast bchind, In happicr meanness oecupy the mind. As in those domes where Caesars onee bore... | |
 | 1859 - 806 Seiten
...imploring eyes, fieynolds looked over the poet's shoulder, and read a couplet whose ink was still wet : — By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; . . The sports of children satisfy the child. Surely, my friend, you will never again read that couplet, so simply and felicitously expressed, without... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 Seiten
...The last lines in Jhe page were still wet — ' they form a part of the description of Italy — " ' By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; The sports of children satisfy the child.' Goldy joined in the laugh caused by this whimsical employment, and acknowledged that his boyish sport... | |
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While low delights, succeeding fast behind, In happier meanness occupy the mind : As in those domes, where... 
