 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 424 lehte
...II. INNOCENT PLAY. A BROAD in the meadows to fee the young Iambi •** Run fporting about by the fide of their dams, With fleeces fo clean and fo white...play all in love, without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the fight ! If vie had been ducks, we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 264 lehte
...INNO, II. INNOCENT PLAY. AB ROAD in the meadows to fee the young Iamb* Run fporting about by the fide of their dams, With fleeces fo clean and fo white...play all in love, without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the fight ! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 lehte
...younglambs "Run fporting about by tho fide of their dams, With fleece* fo clean and fo Xvhitej Or a ncft cou )(- light ' If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 510 lehte
...•**• lambs Run fporting about by the fide of their dams, With fleeces fo clean and ib white, Or a ncll of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love without angcror rage, How much we may learn from the fight ! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud ;... | |
 | 1794 - 954 lehte
...lambs Run ¡porting about by the fide of their dam«, With fleeces fo clean and fo white ; Or a nelt of young doves in a large open cage. When they play all in love, without anger or rage. How much may we learn from the fight ! If we had been ducks, we miuht dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 lehte
...rcaj. II. INNOCENT PLAY. ABROAH in the meadows to fee the young Iambs Run (porting about by the fide of their dams, With fleeces fo clean and fo white...cage. When they play all in love, without anger or rape, How much may we learn from the fight ! If we had been ducks, we mij,ht dabble in mud ; Or dogs,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1807 - 410 lehte
...lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and so white ; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger and rage. How much may we learn from the sight ! If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud, Or dogs,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 lehte
...young lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and ta white; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in love, without anger or rage, How much may we leam from the sight ! " If we had been ducks, we might dabble in mud • Or dogs, we might play... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 lehte
...hreeding, r- f, Who taught me hetimes to lore working and readWith fleeces so clean and so white; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage. When they play all in love, without anger or ra -e IL ItiNOCENT PLAY. ABEOAD in the meadows to see the young lamhs Run sportmg ahout hy the side... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 556 lehte
...young lambs Run sporting about by the side of their dams, With fleeces so clean and bo white; Or a nest of young doves in a large open cage, When they play all in lo\e, without anger or rage, How much may we learn from the sight! If we had been ducks, we might dabble... | |
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If we had been ducks we might dabble in mud ; Or dogs, we might play till it ended in blood ; So foul and so fierce are their natures : But Thomas and William, and such pretty names, Should be cleanly and harmless as doves or as lambs, Those lovely sweet... 
