 | 1857 - 300 pàgines
...cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labors hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. WATTS. CA8ABIANOA. 167 CASABIANCA.... | |
 | Eliza Leslie - 1857 - 706 pàgines
...the mind or exercising the body, and at the same time interesting the attention. SPORTS AND PASTIMES. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be pass'd. WATTs. SOME of these plays require a more minute explanation than others. We will suppose a... | |
 | Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge - 1858 - 190 pàgines
...labor or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still, For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first...may give for every day, Some good account at last. LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 pàgines
...only genteel children should ever be permitted to play. The well-known lines of Dr. Isaac Watts, " In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past," were applicable, she maintained, only to the children of families of the wealthier sort ; while for... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 132 pàgines
...something ill For idle hands to do. 4. In books, or works, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. XXV.-THE BEAR AND HER CUBS. n&ugh'ty dis-pute' fight'ing cor'ner brought cer'tain. 3 them-sSlve?' brolh'er?... | |
 | 1915 - 488 pàgines
...of labor or of skill, I would be busy too; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. Isaac Watts [1674-1748] 'LET DOGS... | |
 | 1912 - 172 pàgines
...of labor or of skill I would be busy, too, For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed ; That I may give for every day Some good account at last. THE CONCEITED APPLE BRANCH HANS CHRISTIAN... | |
 | 1912 - 866 pàgines
...age, 1832, appears this verse: "On books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be passed, That I may give for every day Some good account at last." A sampler owned in my family is embroidered in memory of my great grandmother's sister and brother,... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1914 - 382 pàgines
...labour, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first...may give for every day Some good account at last." Some of the thoughts in Song 18, " Against scoffing and calling names," reappear in the verses at the... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - 1914 - 218 pàgines
...labor, or of skill, I would be busy too ; For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books or work or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for ev'ry day Some good account at last. Father William was written by Robert Southey, an English poet,... | |
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And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes. In works of labour or of skill I would be busy too: For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. In books, or work, or healthful play Let my first years be past, That I may... 
