 Children like tender osiers take the bow, And as they first are fashion'd, always grow, For what we learn in youth, to that alone In age, we are by second nature, prone.  The Female Spectator - Page 265by Eliza Fowler Haywood - 1755Full view - About this book
 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 pages
...Guefts to come. If to fome ll ufeful Art he be not bred, He grows meer Lumber, and is worie than dead; For what we learn in Youth, to that alone In Age we are by fecomi Nature prone. • The callow Storks with Lizard and with Snake Are fed, and foon as e'er to... | |
 | Juvenal - Satire - 1735 - 512 pages
...Quells to come. If to fome " ufeful Art he be not bred, He grows meer Lumber, and is worfe than dead. For what we learn in Youth., to that alone / In Age we are by fecond Nature prone. The callow Storks with Lizard and with Snake Are fed, and foon as e'er to Wing they take, > At fight... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1775 - 416 pages
...due time. But to proceed ; Children like tender oziers, take the how, And as they firft are fafhion'd always grow : For what we learn in youth, to that alone In age we are, by fecond-nature prone. The little and almofl miferable impreffions on their tender infancy have very... | |
 | American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...their play. CHILDREN, like tender oziers, take the bow. And as they firft are fafhion'd, always grow i For what we learn in youth, to that alone In age we are by fecond nature prone. Extraft from Young's Night Thoughts. THE chamber, where the good man meets his fate, Is privileg'd... | |
 | Fables - 1789 - 642 pages
...f Young Man's Comp. &c. Children, like tender Oziers, take the bow, And as they firft are fafhion'd always grow; For what we learn in Youth, to that alone, In Age, we are by fecond nature prone. While early Induftry, and timely cares Provide Support for our declining years; An idle, thriftlefs... | |
 | 1794 - 442 pages
...like tender Oziers take the bow, " And aslhey firft, are falhion'd always grow ; ." Hence what welearn in youth, to that alone, " In age we are by fecond nature prone." DHYDEN junr. ft f'teins therefore Itri^lly ncceflary, that every perfbn who undertakes the education... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 316 pages
...guests to come. If to some useful art '1 he be not bred, He grows mere lumber, and is worse than dead: For what we learn in youth, to that alone In age we are by second nature prone. The callow storks with lizard and with snake Are fed, and soon as e'er to wing... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - Animals - 1832 - 388 pages
...dies. MORAL. 'Tis education forms the youthful mind ; As the twig's bent, so is the tree inclin'd: — For what we learn in youth, to that alone, In age, we are by second nature prone. 121 FABLE XLIX. Sbportsman auto rtje Sbpanfel. [From DODSLEY.] AS a SPORTSMAN... | |
 | William Dunlap - Literary Criticism - 1836 - 232 pages
...Drydsn. " The heavens have bless' d you with a goodly son, To be your comforter." — Sfiakspeare. " For what we learn in youth, to that alone, In age we are, by second nature prone." — Dryiex. "Hook as if all hell were in my heart! And I in hell! nay surely... | |
 | William Dunlap - American fiction - 1837 - 512 pages
...sway—"—Drydcn. " The heavens havebless'd you with a goodly-son, To be your comforter."—Shakspearc. " For what we learn in youth, to that alone, In age we are, by second nature prone."—Drydc*. "Hook as if all hell were in my heart! And I in hell! nay surely'tis... | |
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