 | Robert Southey - 1799 - 320 pagina’s
...You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray. I am chearful young man, Father William replied, Let the cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my... | |
 | 1803 - 438 pagina’s
...British Birch. You are old, Father William, the young man now | said, And life must be hastening away : You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death, Now tell me the reason, I pray ! I am cheerful, indeed, Father William replied ; Let the cause thy attention engage j In the days of my youth, I remember'd... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1805 - 224 pagina’s
...You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray. I am chearful, young man, Father William replied, Let the cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 pagina’s
...You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are chearful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason I pray. . . ' 'I am chearful, young man, Father William replied, Let the cause thy attention engage ; In the days of my... | |
 | Poetry - 1806 - 192 pagina’s
...the past." " You are old, father William," the young man vcried, " And life must be hast'ning away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon * death...cause thy attention engage : In the days of my youth I remember'd my God, And he hath not forgotten my age." AKTHOLOGY. 34 The Traveller's Returt. THE TRAVELLER'S... | |
 | 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...cried, And life must be hastening awtiy ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upoa death! Now U-ll me the reason I pray. I am cheerful, young man, Father...thy attention engage ; — In the days of my youth I remember'd my God 1 Aud he hath not forgotten my age. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS FOR DECEMBER. COVENT-GARDEN.... | |
 | 1807 - 550 pagina’s
...the young ma» cried, And life must he hastening away; Yon are cheerful, aud love to converse upoa death! Now tell me the reason I pray. I am cheerful, young man, Father Williai» replied, » Let the cause thy attention enpajr2 ; — • In the days of myyouth I remembt.'d... | |
 | Poetry - 1804 - 184 pagina’s
...muft be haft'ning away; You are cheerful, and love to converfeupon cleath: Now tell me the reafon, I pray." " I am cheerful, young man," father William replied, " Let the caufe thy attention engage : In the days of my youth I remember'd my God, And he hath not forgotten... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pagina’s
...the past." 5 " You are old, father William," the young man cried, " And life must be hast'ning away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death : Now tell me the reason, I pray." 6 " I am cheerful, young man," father William replied, " Let the cause thy attention engage : In the... | |
 | 1814 - 984 pagina’s
...past." ., '. • " You are old, Father William," the young man cry'd, "And life must be hastening away, You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death,...pray ?" " I am cheerful, young man," Father William reply'd, " Let the cause thy attention engage, In the days of my youth I remembered my God, And he... | |
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You are old, Father William, the young man cried, And life must be hastening away ; You are cheerful, and love to converse upon death ! Now tell me the reason, I pray. 
