 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 sidor
...friends, who, whatever be their peculiar disposition, whether serious or gay, they never forsake us." " So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would 1 seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age, as cheerful 1 might be, As the... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1840 - 136 sidor
...bright than they ; But when the bare and wintry winds we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young aud gay More grave than they ; That, in my age, as cheerful might I b« As the green winter of the... | |
 | 1843 - 488 sidor
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be, As the green winter... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 sidor
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1845 - 434 sidor
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 sidor
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the con!rary,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1846 - 590 sidor
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself ), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More gravt than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
 | 1847 - 828 sidor
...bright than they; But when the bare and wintry woods we see, What then so cheerful as the holly tree ? So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng -, So would I seem, amid the young and J?ay, More grave than they; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the holly... | |
 | 1847 - 332 sidor
...and his pursuits tended to make him more so. The Laureate, in his poem on the Hollytree, has said : " So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay, More grave than they." His sedateness did not, I think, spring from pride... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1849 - 430 sidor
...opposed to Southey, or rather (for Southey has been opposed to himself), to his Poem on the Holly Tree. So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they. There was nothing of Sir Oracle about Lamb. On the contrary,... | |
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So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng, So would I seem among the young and gay More grave than they, That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree, III LORD WILLIAM. 
