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 - Seite 21von Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Alexander Pope - 1879
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 536 Seiten
...beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired val which separated the whole race from Him on whom their own e Those painted clouds that beautify our days ; Each want of happiness by hope supplied, And each vacuity... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 122 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1881
...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 - 1882 - 176 Seiten
...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 - 1882
...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 - 1883 - 290 Seiten
...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 - 1883 - 412 Seiten
...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 - 560 Seiten
...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... | |
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