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" Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories... "
A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ... - Page 146
by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1856 - 570 pages
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Gleanings from the Poets, for Home and School

1855 - 458 pages
...way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. VI. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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Gleanings from the Poets: For Home and School

Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. VI. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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The works of professor Wilson, ed. by prof. Ferrier, Volume 3

John Wilson - 1855 - 404 pages
...1 Nicholas Mallebranche, a distinguished French philosopher, died in 1715, aged seventy-seven. ' " Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Noctes ambrosianae

John Wilson - 1856 - 414 pages
...1 Nicholas Mallebranche, a distinguished French philosopher, died in 1715, aged seventy-seven. s " Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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Noctes ambrosianae

John Wilson - 1856 - 410 pages
...1 Nicholas Mallebranche, a distinguished French philosopher, died in 1715, aged seventy-seven. a " Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Is on his way attended ; At length the Man sees it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely muse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And...
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The Guardian, Volumes 8-9

1857 - 904 pages
...his way attended ; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim. The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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The Epistles of St. John: A Series of Lectures on Christian Ethics

Frederick Denison Maurice - 1857 - 400 pages
...in his splendid poem on the ' Intimations of Immortality from Recollections in Early Childhood:' ' Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions ...

William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...his way attended ; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pages
...oil the way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of coming day. Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings...And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child —her inmate, man — Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial...
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