 Edwin's birth ; The parent's transport, and the parent's care ; The gossip's prayer for wealth, and wit, and worth ; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth; VOL.  Public Characters - Seite 4711804Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 Seiten
...deem'da signal of tempestuous gales. JAMES BEATTIE. BORN 1735— DIED 1803. DESCRIPTION OP THE MINSTREL. Nor aught that might a strange event declare. You...; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy, Deep thought oft seem'd to fix his infant eye. Dainties he heeded... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or seer foretold : No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare....; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy ; Deep thought oft seem'd to fix his infant eye : Dainties he... | |
 | James Beattie - 1831 - 330 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or seer foretold ; No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare....prayer for wealth, and wit, and worth ; And one long summer day of indolence and mirth. XVI. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy, Deep thought oft seem'd... | |
 | 1831 - 426 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair. His birth no oracle or seer foretold : No prodigy appear'd in death or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare. You guess each circumstance of Kdrvin't birth : The parent's transport, and the parent's care ; The gossip's prayer for wealth, and... | |
 | 1838 - 332 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or seer foretold : No prodigy appear'd in earth or air. Nor aught that might a strange event declare....worth; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar lxiy ; Deep thought oft seem'd to fix his infant eye : Dainties he... | |
 | 1840 - 378 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or seer foretold ; No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare....; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy — Deep thought oft seem'd to fix his infant eye. Dainties he... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 Seiten
...offspring of this humhle pair; His hirth no oracle or seer foretold , No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare. You guess each circumstance of Edwin's hirth The parent's transport, and the parent's care ; The gossip's prayer for wealth, and wit, and... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair : His birth no oracle or seer foretold ; No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare...., And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy, Deep thought oft seem'd to fix his infant eye. Dainties he heeded... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair : His Urrth no oracle or seer foretold j No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare....; And one long summer-day of indolence and mirth. And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy : Deep thought oft seem'd to fix his infant eye ; Dainties he... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 Seiten
...offspring of this humble pair: His birth no oracle or seer foretold ; No prodigy appear'd in earth or air, Nor aught that might a strange event declare. You guess each circumstanee of Edwin's birth; The parent's transport, and the parent's care ; The gossip's prayer... | |
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