 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
 | Ira Woods Howerth - Art - 1912 - 308 pages
...amuse 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." This is a somewhat pessimistic view of life, but it is correct so far as the successive change of interests... | |
 | William Thomas Fernie - Phrenology - 1913 - 442 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." " Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is Man." Alexander Pope... | |
 | William Stebbing - English poetry - 1913 - 424 pages
...his riper stage ; And beads and prayer-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.8 Disposition and circumstances inclined him to unmask and mock at weaknesses. But there was genius... | |
 | David Burns - Biophysics - 1921 - 492 pages
...amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-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." POPE. IT may be laid down as axiomatic that once an object has come into equilibrium with its environment,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...riper stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : a/So Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's...is o'er. Meanwhile Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiness by Hope supply 'd, t&s And each... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...amuse 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. An Essay on Man, ii, 1733, 1743 F( ~2 >OR Forms of Government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - English language - 1927 - 594 pages
...amuse 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. Writing of this kind is a delight, not by reason of the profundity or the great emotional displacement... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...theory of passions. 279. Scarfs] The badge of doctors of divinity. Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's...is o'er! Mean-while Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; Each want of happiness by Hope supply'd, 285 And each... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...amuse 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! This is Man seen from above, as if by the pitying eye of God or Nature, to which the most dignified... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1993 - 412 pages
...amuse 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. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful Introduction The... | |
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