| Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! — My dear Babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beiide his ear, 31 is little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it wise... | |
| 1851 - 696 pages
...hie father's poem ' The Nightingale.' . . ' That strain again ! Full fain would it delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his h;ind, beside his ear, His little hand, the small fore finger up, And bid us listen ! And I deem it... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 330 pages
...pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...To make him Nature's Play-mate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once, when he awoke In most distressful mood (some inward pain Had made up that... | |
| England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...capable of no articulate sound,' Mars all things with hist imitative lisp, How he would place his band beside his ear, His little hand, the small forefinger...us listen ! and I deem it wise To make him Nature's child." Compare the intensity and truth of any natural knowledge insensibly acquired by observation... | |
| English literature - 1836 - 570 pages
...desirable indication of paternal love : — "'That strain again f Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...the small fore-finger up, And bid us listen ! And J deem it wife To make him Ntiture's playmate,' bjects of beauty, interest, and wonder appeal to us... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1828 - 374 pages
...pleasantly, And now for our dear homes. — That strain again ? Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...To make him Nature's Play-mate. He knows well The evening-star ; and once, when he awoke In most distressful mood (some inward pain Had made up that... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...strain again? Foil fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Marg all things with his imitative lisp. How he would place his hand beside his car, Hit little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen.! And I deem it wise To make him Nature's... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...we cannot refrain from extracting : — " That strain again? Full fa'n it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...small fore-finger up, • And bid us listen ! And / deem it wise To make him nature*! playmate. He knows well The evening star; and once, when he awoke... | |
| George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...Coleridge in his verses to the nightingale — -" That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe Who, capable of no articulate sound Mars all...his hand beside his ear, His little hand, the small fore finger up, And hid us listen ! And I deem it wise To make him nature's playmate — And if that... | |
| Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...beautiful lines to the Nightingale : — " That strain again ! Full fain it would delay me ! My dear babe, Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all...lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear, ', AtHis little hand, the small forefinger up, And bid us listen ! and I deem it wise To make him Nature's... | |
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