 If time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go.  London Society - Page 56publié par - 1880Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1859 - 932 pages
...utilitarian of clergymen and the most imaginative of poets had come to the same conclusion — " Oh teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew." The old apathy which characterised the national mind on the subject was thrown off at once. Whether... | |
 | 1843 - 414 pages
...time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands — Go, teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew ; Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go. 231 ON A LINN. This little Poem was... | |
 | 1848 - 606 pages
...iihie be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at yoorgate, Nor any poor upon your lands •> Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew ; Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go !" " Locksley Hall" is one of those... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...Time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray Heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go. ADVERSITY. BY FRANCIS BACON, LORD VERUL*M.... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 568 pages
...time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go." The poems which immediately follow this,... | |
 | 1854 - 502 pages
...time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor abont your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Pray Heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman go." And, even in that long monotonous dead... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pages
...poem, in which he also asks — " Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor upon your lands? Oh! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew, Fray heaven for a human heart, And let the foolish yeoman got" Again, there are some who appear firmly... | |
 | 1861 - 756 pages
...time be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gates, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh, teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to eew." MAXIMILIAN'S COUKTSHIP. MY friend Max had an imperial nose — halfhruvkish, that is ; large... | |
 | Stephen Frederick Williams - 1862 - 328 pages
...lines, he has inquired : — "Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh ! teach the orphan boy to read, Or teach the orphan girl to sew ; Pray heaven for a human heart." How his geniality, his happy humour, and felicitous language have... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...life be heavy on your hands, Are there no beggars at your gate, Nor any poor about your lands ? Oh, eas created in us. . By habitual communion with superior spir ; Pray Heuvcn for a human heart, And let your selfish sorrow go. Tennyfon. LIFE— Decay of. Life ebbs... | |
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