 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
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 536 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1887 - 192 Seiten
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 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - 427 Seiten
...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 - 1890
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1892 - 122 Seiten
...beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age: 280 l' Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; j- I 'Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. * Mean-while opinion gilds with varying rays ^L* Those painted clouds that beautify our days; v^'<'V^'"' f^ Each want of happiness by hope supply'd,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 505 Seiten
...stage, And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age : i ' . * 4^° Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before; "Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's...o'er. '"Mean-while Opinion gilds with varying rays Those painted clouds that beautify our days; 1 the poet in his Mitse.] The author having said, that... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 505 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 485 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... | |
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