 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...His own peace they lie, Therefore (whence else?) your tears are dry, And sure as theirs your rest. Children are what the mothers are, No fondest father's...to her those eyes Open with joy and not surprise. Wordsworth has lines about the Eagle and the Dove that are warm and beautiful. His references to Caractacus... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...cradle of a sleeping son. * Forster's Treatise on Popular Progress. | Wordsworth's Coll. Ed. p. 301. His startled eyes with wonder see A father near him...her those eyes Open with joy, and not surprise."* Another copartnership in letters, closer than that of Surrey and "VVyatt, and suggesting another kind... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...cradle of a sleeping son. * Forster'a Treatise on Popular Progress, f Wordsworth's Coll. Ed. p. 301. His startled eyes with wonder see A father near him...her those eyes Open with joy, and not surprise."* Another copartnership in letters, closer than that of Surrey and Wyatt, and suggesting another kind... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 416 pages
...see A feather near him on his knee, Who wishes all the while to trace The mother in his future facej But 'tis to her alone uprise His wakening arms, to her those eyes Open with joy, and not surprise."* Another copartnership in letters, closer than that of Surrey and Wyatt, and suggesting another kind... | |
 | Charles Williams - Authors, English - 1856 - 396 pages
...see A father near him on his knee ; Who wishes all the while to trace The mother in his future lace. But 'tis to her alone uprise His wakening arms ; to her those eyes Open with joy, and not surprise." * And doubtless Mrs. Mogridge could tell, to those who listened with pleasure to her tale, of the moment... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...cannot but think how it exemplifies the truth which Landor's lines have told : " Children are what their mothers are. No fondest father's wisest care Can fashion...to her those eyes Open with joy, and not surprise." Another copartnership in letters, closer than that of Surrey and Wyatt, and suggesting another kind... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1860 - 414 pages
...gentle son — one cannot but think how it exemplifies the truth which Landor's lines have told : " Children are "what the mothers are. No fondest father's...her those eyes Open with joy, and not surprise/'* Another copartnership in letters, closer than that of Surrey and Wyatt, and suggesting another kind... | |
 | Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...more. Dryden. Her Educational Instinct. Children are what the mothers are. No fondest father's fondest care Can fashion so the infant heart As those creative...to her, those eyes Open with joy and not surprise. Landor. Her best Qualities improved by Education. I have those hopes of her good, that her Education... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Fore-edge painting - 1865 - 398 pages
...more. Dryden. Her Educational Instinct. Children are what the mothers are. No fondest father's fondest care Can fashion so the infant heart As those creative...to her, those eyes Open with joy and not surprise. Landor. Her best Qualities improved by Education. I have those hopes of her good, that her Education... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Thurston - Quotations - 1866 - 320 pages
...wives, but only one mother. CHILDREN. pHILDHEN are what the mothers are, No fondest father's fondest care Can fashion so the infant heart, As those creative...to. her those eyes, Open with joy and not surprise. WS Landor. TT7HO should it be ? Where shouldst thou look for kindness ? When we are sick, where can... | |
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what the mothers are. No fondest father's wisest care Can fashion so the infant heart, As those creative beams that dart, With all their hopes and fears, upon The cradle of a sleeping son. His startled eyes with wonder see A father near him on his knee,... 
