| Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 462 pages
...be apt to retire from the active sports of his mates. BEATTIE paints himself in his own Minstrel : " Concourse, and noise, and toil he ever fled, Nor cared...fray Of squabbling imps; but to the forest sped." BOSSUET would not join his young companions, and flew to his solitary task, while the classical boys... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1840 - 528 pages
...sports of his mates. BEATTIE paints himself in his own Minstrel : " Concourse, and noise, and ton be ever fled, Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps ; but to the forest sped." BOSSUET would not join his young companions, and flew to his solitary task, while the classical boys... | |
| William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 430 pages
...a more successful competitor for a prize in the schoolroom, than for victory on the play-ground. " Concourse and noise and toil he ever fled, Nor cared...mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps." His friends often remonstrated with him on the perils of his sedentary life. They endeavored to beguile... | |
| William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 434 pages
...a prize in the schoolroom, than for victory on the play-ground. " Concourse and noise and toil IIP ever fled, Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps." His friends often remonstrated with him on the perils of his sedentary life. They endeavored to beguile... | |
| 1843 - 368 pages
...stared and sigh'd, yet bless'd the lad : Some deem'd him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse,...lonely mountain's head, Or, where the maze of some bevvilder'd stream To deep untrodden groves his footsteps led, There would he wander wild, till PluEbus'... | |
| Readings - 1843 - 466 pages
...stared and sighed, yet blessed the lad : Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. But why should I his childish feats display? Concourse,...fray Of squabbling imps"; but to the forest sped, Or roamed at large the lonely mountain's head, Or where the maze of some bewildered stream To deep untrodden... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...stared and sighed, yet blessed the 1ml ; Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mod. But ; where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, 'tis roamed at large the lonely mountain's head, Or where the maze of some bewildered stream To deep untrodden... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...stared and sighed, yet blessed the lad ; Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad. But 844 roamed at large the lonely mountain's head, Or where the maze of some bewildered stream To deep untrodden... | |
| William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...stared and sigh'd, yet Lle?s'd the lad i Some deem'd him wondrous wiae, and some helieved him mad. But why should I his childish feats display ? Concourse,...fled; Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray Of squahhling imps; hut to the forest sped, Or roam'd at largo the lonely mountain's head; Or, where the... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...time, the most attached to poor Wingfield, who died at Coimbra, 1811, before I returned to England."6 " Concourse, and noise, and toil, he ever fled. Nor...clamorous fray Of squabbling imps, but to the forest sped. His highest authority, however, Is Milton, who says of himself, " When I was ret a child, no childish... | |
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