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... Blackwood's Lady's Magazine and Gazette of the Fashionable World, Or, St ... - Page 2201851Full view - About this book
| Robert Southey - English poetry - 1799 - 320 pages
...see 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 who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 612 pages
...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 my 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... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1800 - 570 pages
...see 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 Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.... | |
| Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...emblems see 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 Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.... | |
| Robert Southey - Poetry - 1805 - 224 pages
...abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, Such as may profit in the after time. So, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh and austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be, Like the high leaves upon the Holly Tree.... | |
| 664 pages
...emblems see 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,...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,... | |
| 1821 - 702 pages
...emblems see 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,...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,... | |
| 1830 - 492 pages
...Can emblems see Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh...austere ; To those who on my leisure would intrude, Reserved and rude ; Gentle at home, amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly- Tree.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1823 - 258 pages
...emblems see . Wherewith perchance to make a pleasant rhyme, One which may profit in the after-time. Thus, though abroad perchance I might appear Harsh...austere, To those who on my leisure would intrude Reserved and rude, '•> Gentle at home amid my friends I'd be Like the high leaves upon the Holly... | |
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