| William Cowper - 1835 - 362 trang
...live yet ; One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That Education gives her, false or true. Plants raised with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 394 trang
...live yet ; One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That education gives her, false or true. Plants raised with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's... | |
| William Cowper - 1837 - 534 trang
...live yet : One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clew That Education gives her, false or true. Plants rais'd with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's... | |
| 1837 - 646 trang
...piety. Let every parent print Cowper's lines upon his memory: — " Our most important are our early years. The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees." It is happily observed in the present pamphlet, that we convert the baby of Agrippina into a Nero.... | |
| London female mission - 1838 - 444 trang
...though freely bestowing ; The stream was supplied by a fountain o'erflowing. HINTS TO MOTHERS. " "Pis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That education gives her, false or true." " VERILY there is a God that judgeth in the earth,"... | |
| Mark Wilks - 1838 - 218 trang
...body are lively — the heart susceptible — the conscience tender — the habits flexible. 'T is granted and no plainer truth appears Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind improvable and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees ; And through life's labyrinth... | |
| William Cowper - 1839 - 554 trang
...live yet : One sad epistle thence may cure mankind Of the plague spread by bundles left behind. 'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important...the cluo That education gives her, false or true. Plants raised with tenderness are seldom strong ; Man's coltish disposition asks the thong, And without... | |
| 1839 - 296 trang
...and February Nos. of the Visiter, the following lines of Cowper were often suggested to my mind: " Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind...sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clew That education gives her, false or true." He frequently alluded to the scenes of his early childhood,... | |
| Mrs. Maria GURNEY - 1840 - 128 trang
... RHYMES FOR MY CHILDREN. BY A MOTHER. 'Tis granted, aud no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our...soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears aud sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That Education gives her, false or true.... | |
| Robert Everett - 1883 - 420 trang
...Qan byny gosoder esiam[>l dda о fiaen y tô ieuanc eydd yn codi. Fel y dywed y bardd Cowper : " 'Tie granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years; Tue mind impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she bears and sees." 9. Y Sul.—... | |
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