 | Thomas Percy - 1844 - 400 páginas
...their mothers features, To hear them lisp their mothers tongue. And when with envy time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, * You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go a wooing in my boys. XIV. THE WITCH OF WOKEY — was published in a small collection of poems, intitled,... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1845 - 446 páginas
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together ; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seoks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my hoys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation as could... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1846 - 454 páginas
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys.' " So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1847 - 470 páginas
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together; ' And when with Envy Time transported Seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent... | |
 | 1898 - 712 páginas
...occur the well-known lines (often referred to in ' N. A Q.') :— And when with envy time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'II go wooing in my boys. There is this foot-note to the lyric: "This pleasing delineation of conjugal... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1850 - 544 páginas
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together : •"And when with envy Time, transported, seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation as could possibly... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 páginas
...happily expressed by a poet of no great eminence — " And when with envy time transporte d, Shall seek to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I go wooing on my boys." It is possible, very possible, that half the hopes thus formed may disappoint... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, • You'll in your...girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Surely this is the sort of poetry that ought to be popular—to be sung in our concert-rooms, and set... | |
 | Martin Farquhar Tupper - 1851 - 532 páginas
...find, as to other folks, who once were young together: "' And when with envy Time, transported, seeks to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, and I'll go wooing in my boys.'" So said or sung the flighty Mrs. Tracy. It was as simple and innocent a quotation as could possibly... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 páginas
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your...girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. Surely this is the sort of poetry that ought to be popular — to be sung in our concert-rooms, and... | |
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And babes, sweet-smiling babes, our bed. How should I love the pretty creatures, While round my knees they fondly clung ; To see them look their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tongue. And when with envy, time transported, Shall think... 
