 | Suffolk Institute of Archaeology - Archaeology - 1891 - 644 pages
...here that Thomas Gainsborough, the painter, as a boy, received his education. " The bench on which he sat, while deep employed, Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The wall on which he tried his graving skill, The very name he carved, existing still." — Thus wrote... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1892 - 744 pages
...We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on...mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot ; As happy as we once,... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - Teachers in literature - 1892 - 694 pages
...We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on...mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot, As happy as we once,... | |
 | 1893 - 352 pages
...and buckles ; but the texture of the cloth provided by statute was so coarse that the friends of 1 " The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The...Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed." COWPER. the children furnished apparel of finer material, but of statutory garb. The College Dormitory... | |
 | John Jeremiah Daniell - Poets, English - 1893 - 348 pages
...and buckles ; but the texture of the cloth provided by statute was so coarse that the friends of 1 " The wall on which we tried our graving skill, The...Though mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed." COWPER. the children furnished apparel of finer material, but of statutory garb. The College Dormitory... | |
 | Philip Tocque - Canada - 1895 - 310 pages
...We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight and feels at none, The wall on which...bench on which we sat while deep employed, Though mangl'd, hack'd and hewed not yet destroyed." We carry with us everywhere a love of home, which nothing,... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1896 - 412 pages
...play-place of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at the sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried...still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employed, Tho' mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed ; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our graving skill, 300 The very name we carved subsisting still, The bench...mangled, hacked, and hewed, not yet destroyed; The little ones, unbuttoned, glowing hot, Playing our games, and on the very spot, 305 As happy as we once,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - English poetry - 1896 - 680 pages
...We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on which we tried our paving The very name we carved subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while deep employ'd, Though... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. The wall on...subsisting still ; The bench on which we sat while d'»ep employ'd, Though mangled, hack'd, and hew'd, not yet destroy'd ; The little ones unbutton'd,... | |
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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days. The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. 
