 | English essays - 1753 - 712 pages
...lire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, And bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year (lie bore : What farrow was, thou baHft her know, And from her own fhe Icarn'd to melt at others woe.... | |
 | Collection - 1758 - 394 pages
...Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was,' thou bad'ft her know, And from her own me learn'd to melt at others' wo«.... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1758 - 384 pages
...Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own me learn'd to melt at others' woe.... | |
 | English essays - 1753 - 716 pages
...to fend on earth Virtue, his darling child, defign'd, To thee he gave the he.iv'nly birth, And bad to form her infant mind. "Stern rugged nurfe ! thy...rigid lore With patience many a year (he bore : What farrow was, thou badft her know, And from her own (he learn'd to melt at others woe, Scar'd at thy... | |
 | Collection - 1765 - 418 pages
...firft thy Sire ,to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged...nurfe ! thy rigid lore .With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, . And from her own fhe learn'd to melt at others'... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1765 - 412 pages
...firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, * To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year Ihe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own me learn'd to melt at others' woe.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Cats - 1768 - 140 pages
...Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bad to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurfe ! thy rigid lore " ' With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own fhe learn'd to melt at others' woe.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1770 - 136 pages
...When firfl thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. ' Stern rugged Nurfe ; thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore; What fofrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own flie leani'd to melt at others woe.... | |
 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1770 - 402 pages
...When firft thy Sire to fend on earth Virtue, his darling Child, defign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly Birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year fhe bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her know, And from her own me learn'd to melt at others' woe.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1775 - 168 pages
....:, Virtue, his darling child, dcfign'd, To thee he gave the heav'nly birth, ... ,• .x-.it: isi c~ And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged nurfe...lore. . .,,-. .. ^.^ .,<;. With patience many a year flic bore : What forrow was, thou bad'ft her kno«r» 7i|.,l,j \R i. And from her own fhe learn' J... | |
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To thee he gave the heavenly birth, And bade to form her infant mind. Stern rugged Nurse ! thy rigid lore With patience many a year she bore : What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learn'd to melt at others 
