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| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after-time. ' So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear • Harsh and austere, To...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 - English poetry - 1799 - 320 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after-time. rv. So, tho' abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those...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 - Books - 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 - English poetry - 1800 - 318 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after-time. IV. So, tho' abroad perchance I might Appear Harsh and austere, To those...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
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Snch 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, Reserv'd and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.... | |
| 664 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a 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, Reserv'd and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.... | |
| Elizabeth Kent (botanist.) - 1825 - 466 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those...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
...they grow where nothing is to fear, Smooth and unarmed the pointless leaves appear. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those...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... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 502 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. " Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those...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... | |
| George Johnston - Berwick-upon-Tweed (England) - 1829 - 636 pages
...Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit hi the after-tune. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those...I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly tree." Bird-lime is made from the mucilaginous bark ; and the wood, white, hard, and close-grained, is used... | |
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