 And having dropped the expected bag — pass on. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, To him indifferent- whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall...  Poems - Side 98av William Cowper - 1802Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Hazlitt - 1852 - 330 sider
...and of joy to some; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears...cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains Or nymphs responsive, equally affect EU horse and him,... | |
 | Mary (aunt, pseud.) - 1852 - 200 sider
...Spain 122 IX. The Last Look 140 X. The Closing of the Crystal Palace . . .161 CHAPTER I. Smutntinit. " But, oh th' important budget ! usher'd in With such...heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings ? " COWPER. THOSE who have read " The Country and London" will remember that something like a promise... | |
 | William Cowper - 1852 - 466 sider
...writer's checks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill. Or charged with am'rous sighs of ahsent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O th' important hudget ; usher'd in With such heart- shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 sider
...Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, which trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with am'rous sighs of absent swains Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 800 sider
...joy to some ; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. 15 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cneeka Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, 120... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 796 sider
...of joy \o some ; To him indifFrent whether grief or joy. 15 Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's enecks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, 'JO... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 sider
...of joy to some ; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears,...cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and hhn,... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 sider
...and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears...cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 sider
...and of joy to some; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in afhes, and the fall of slocks, B.irths, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast a» the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous righs of absent swaina, Or nymphs responsive,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 sider
...and of joy to some, To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears that trickled down the writer's checks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or... | |
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