 | Bertram Dobell - 1903 - 410 էջ
...is it that we realise the delightful anticipation of the song, And when with envy Time transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your Girls again be courted, While I go wooing in my Boys. Children afford an excuse for business, as well as a plea for pleasure.... | |
 | John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard, John Raymond Howard - 1904 - 930 էջ
...fortunes, and their beings blend. Seasons: Spring. j. THOMSON. And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys. Winifreda. T. PERCY. Cling closer, closer, life to life, Cling closer,... | |
 | Gerald Griffin - 1904 - 452 էջ
...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 " with a glance at Kyrle — " And I go wooing with the boys." " And this," thought young Kyrle,... | |
 | James Crichton-Browne - 1905 - 160 էջ
...of those vernal influences in which parents renew their youth. 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. Many examples might be adduced of a beneficent old age. On his eighty-second birthday... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1906 - 1198 էջ
...substantial honours, And to be noble we '11 be good.1 Winifreaa (1720) And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I '11 go wooing in my boys. ¡bid King Stephen was a worthy peeré, His breeches cost him but a croune... | |
 | Gerald Griffin - 1906 - 398 էջ
...their mother's features, To hear them lisp their mother's tonguel And when with envy Time transported Shall think to rob us of our joys— You'll in your girls again be courted, And I ; with a glance at Kyrle— 'And I go wooing with the boys.' ' And this,' thought young Kyrle, in... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1908 - 612 էջ
...certain passages in Fanny 1 With its well-known last stanza — 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. This very agreeable thing ("Away! Let nought to Love displeasing") has, I believe,... | |
 | Hildegarde Gordon Brown - 1908 - 344 էջ
...the spectacle of youth as it passes before our eyes. And when with envy Time, transported, Shall seek to rob us of our joys, You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys. But maiden ladies reck little of such pleasures ! We live in the recollection of... | |
 | 1912 - 432 էջ
...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. AN OLD MAN'S IDYL BY the waters of Life we sat together, Hand in hand, in the golden... | |
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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 to rob us of our joys, You'll in your... 
