 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1873 - 586 страници
...eagles eat the same !" Moreover, Watts forgets grace, occasionally, for chance, as in the couplet: " If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud, Or dogs,...we might play till it ended in blood, So foul and so fierce are their natures. But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 264 страници
...Run fporting about by the fide of their dams, With fleeces fo clean and fo white; Or a neft of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in...in blood; So foul and fo fierce are their natures : But Thomas and William, and fuch pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmlefs as doves, or as lambs.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 страници
...Run ("porting about by the fide of their dams, With fleeces fo clean and fo white, Or a ncll of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the fight ! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, \ve might play... | |
 | 1794 - 954 страници
...¡porting about by the fide of their dam«, With fleeces fo clean and fo white ; Or a nelt of young doves in a large open cage. When they play all in...we learn from the fight ! If we had been ducks, we miuht dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood ¡ So foul and fo fierce are their... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 страници
...Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger and rage. How much may we learn from the sight! So foul aud so fierce are their natures : But Thomas... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1813 - 574 страници
...spot ting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love without anger or rage ; How much we may learn from the sight. i If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1816 - 104 страници
...anger- or rage. How much may wele am from the sight! If we naxLbeen dncks we might dabble in nrad.. Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood: So foul and so fierce axe their natures: But Thomas and William, and such pretty names. ShouM~be cleanly and harmless... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 страници
...Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much we may learn from the sight! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud, Or dogs, we might play 'till... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 страници
...Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in...without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the sight! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud, Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood;... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 186 страници
...let us read a little poetry. INNOCENT PLAY. With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love without anger or rage, Abroad in the meadows to see the young lambs Kun sporting about by the side of their dams, , How much... | |
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doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the fight! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood ; So foul and fo fierce are their natures 
