 Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw ; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble...  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Page 23by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1881 - 150 pages
...his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: 280 Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Mean-while opinion gilds... | |
 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...cards and counters are the toys of age; Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired, he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds, with varying rays, Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - Quotations - 1882 - 200 pages
...beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by Hope supply'd, And each vacuity... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1882 - 662 pages
...amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er." " Then there was another worthy, who had thoroughly mastered the Iliad of Homer. He knew every line.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 326 pages
...and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ; 'Till tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by Hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - English poetry - 1883 - 498 pages
...beads and prayer-books are the toys of age Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ; "Till tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days : Each want of happiness by Hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...his riper stage ; And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age ; Pleas'd with this Bauble still, as that before ; Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. iWilll. — Spenser. I greatest and most glorious tiiing on ground May often need the helpe of weaker... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1889 - 442 pages
...amnse hts riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this hanble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'ep" The child Wordsworth had specially in his mind here was Hartley Coleridge ; see his lines "To... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Anthologies - 1890 - 448 pages
...and prayer books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before ; 'Till tired he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er. Meanwhile Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
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