 And should my youth, as youth is apt, I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly-Tree.  The Saturday Magazine - Page 461837Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after-time. ' So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear • Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude...youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vein asperities I day by day Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1799 - 320 pages
...pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after-time. rv. So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. V. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I day by day... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1800 - 612 pages
...IV. 1 S-.i, .I..., abroad perchance- 1 might appear Hi> i)i and auftere, To thofe who on my leifure would intrude Reserved and -rude, Gentle at home amid...friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the holly tree. G a V. ' And ftiould my youth, as youth is apt I Some ii.ii flint:!:, (how, All vain afperities 1 day... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1800 - 318 pages
...pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after-time. IV. So, tho' abroad perchance I might Appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home arrtid tify friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. V. And should my youth, as youth... | |
 | 1821 - 702 pages
...abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserv'd and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like...vain asperities, I day by day Would wear away ; Till smooth the temper of my age should be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And, as when all the... | |
 | 664 pages
...abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserv'd and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like...vain asperities, I day by day Would wear away ; Till smooth the temper of my age should be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. And, as when all the... | |
 | 1830 - 492 pages
...pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere ; To those who on my leisure would intrude,...of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly-Tree. And as when all the summer trees are seen So bright and green, The holly-leaves a sober... | |
 | Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude...amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the holly-tree. And should my youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, All vain asperities I... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude...youth, as youth is apt I know, Some harshness show, AH vain asperities I day by day Would wear away, Till the smooth temper of my age should be Like the... | |
 | 1831 - 502 pages
...rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. " Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude...asperities I day by day , ,, • Would wear away, Till die smooth temper of my age should be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree. " And a* when all the... | |
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