Ah, Heavens, those Eyesthat Look,that pretty Leer,that my Father shou'd be so doating an old Fool to think these Beauties fit for a little Merchandize; a Marchioness wou'd so much better become me.

James hovered about, put out and miserable, but active and exact as ever; read to her, when there was a lull, short bits from the Psalms, prose and metre, chanting the latter in his own rude and serious way, showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and doating over her as his "ain Ailie."

So is it ever with the worldthe parent Still doating on his offspring.

James hovered about, put out and miserable, but active and exact as ever; read to her, when there was a lull, short bits from the Psalms, prose and metre, chanting the latter in his own rude and serious way, showing great knowledge of the fit words, bearing up like a man, and doating over her as his "ain Ailie."

A chair, a candle, and a tinder-box, A thacked chamber and a ragged gown, Should be their lands and whole possessions; Knights, lords, and lawyers should be lodg'd and dwell Within those over-stately heaps of stone, Which doating sires in old age did erect.

Again and again he drank, and wished still to be drinking, for it took not only all pain out of his limbs, but all hate and bitterness out of his soul, and produced such a remorseful and doating memory of Angelica, that he would fain have galloped that instant to Cathay, and prostrated himself at her feet.

Rud. Nay, theres some reason for that, Captaine, me thinks a true woman should perpetually doate upon a new fashion.

Age must doate To a Judgments dearth that may be cheated on

In hells name what behould's hys majestie To doate uppon thys rascall!

In soothe my soule Loves thee beyond relatyon; for thee I doate And dye in thyne affectyon.

Why, I doe nowe doate on thyne excellence.

He is a fond husband and almost a doating father, seeks no amusement out of his own family, and is not only addicted to no bad habits, but averse to spending time in society or the dissipations connected with it.

well In one thats of thy yeares and gravity, That ought to bee in lyfe and government To others an example, nowe to doate So neere the grave!

I love her, Aunt Ada," said he, passionately"love her with all the energy and strength of my father's race, and all the doating tenderness of my mother's.

This precept of our Fathers we have obeyed as sons, and have perceived its truth, which is, that so far as any one loves his conjugial partner alone, so far he becomes celestial and internal, and that so far as any one does not love his married partner alone, so far he becomes natural and external; and in this case he loves only himself and the images of his own mind, and is doating and foolish.

And whilst the doating father thinks his child A paragon of worth and bashfulness, Her thoughts are hovering round the precious form Of her sweet furnace-breathing Don Diego!

What doating bigot, to his faults so blind, As not to grant me this, can Milton find?

The son, just launched on manhood's tide, The doating father's prop and stay, The tender mother's joy and pride, Became the fell destroyer's prey; While tasting bliss without alloy, Thrice happy with his youthful bride.

We find a glory in the zeal Of doating breast and toiling brain; Affection's martyrs still will kneel, And song, though famish'd, pour its strain.

A-La-Mode, a very humorous representation of a fond, doating Husband, injured by his Wife.

Go thither, child of bloud, and sing my doating.

Hereafter like me, ever doate on learning, The meere beleefe is excellent, 'twill save you; And next love valour, though you dare not fight Your selfe, or fright a foolish Officer, 'young Eustace Can doe it to a haire.

Nor you[r] long travailes, not your little knowledge, Can make me doate upon you.

but Ile not chide, Hereafter like me, ever doate on learning, The meere beleefe is excellent, 'twill save you;

No books have so early taught me to think of the changes to which human life is subject, and while looking at him I could not but say to myselfwe may, one of us, I or the happiest of my playmates, live to become still more the object of pity, than this old man, this half-doating pilferer.