. Poetry for children . THE BROTHERSREPLY. VI SISTER, fie for shame, no more 1Give this ignorant babble oer,Nor, with little female pride,Things above your sense this foolish underratingOf my first attempts at Latin ?Know you not each thing we prizeDoes from small beginnings rise ?Twas the same thing with your writingWhich you now take such delight you learnt the down-stroke line,Then the hairstroke thin and fine,Then a curve and then a better,Till you came to form a letter;Then a new task was begun,How to join them two in one;Till you got (these first steps passd)To your f
. Poetry for children . THE BROTHERSREPLY. VI SISTER, fie for shame, no more 1Give this ignorant babble oer,Nor, with little female pride,Things above your sense this foolish underratingOf my first attempts at Latin ?Know you not each thing we prizeDoes from small beginnings rise ?Twas the same thing with your writingWhich you now take such delight you learnt the down-stroke line,Then the hairstroke thin and fine,Then a curve and then a better,Till you came to form a letter;Then a new task was begun,How to join them two in one;Till you got (these first steps passd)To your fine text-hand at , though I at first commenceWith the humble accidence, POETRY FOR CHILDREN 21 And my studys course affords Little else as yet but words, I shall venture in a while At construction, grammar, style, Learn my syntax, and proceed Classic authors next to read, Such as wiser, better, make us, Sallust, Phaedrus, Ovid, Flaccus: All the poets with their wit, All the grave historians writ, Who the lives and actions show Of m
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