 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark! So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent :— " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - 1832 - 388 sider
...shining in the dark, And knew the GLOW-WORM, by his spark ; NIGHTINGALE AND GLOWWORM. 183 So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The WORM, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Epictetus, Samuel Croxall, John Gay, William Cowper, Alexander Pope, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, James Merrick, Charles Denis, John Tapner - 1832 - 366 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the GLOW-WORM, by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The WORM, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | 1832 - 406 sider
...shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark , So, stooping from the hawthorn top, Vie thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent:— Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, A« much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent, — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, " As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | Anne Parker - 1835 - 302 sider
...something shining in the dark, And knew the Glow-worm by his spark; So, stooping down from hawthorn-top, He thought to put him in his crop; The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus right eloquent: — " Did you admire my lamp," quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glowworm by his spark ; So stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
 | 1836 - 496 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark \ So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm. aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent : — " Did you adnure my lamp," quoth he " As much as I your minstrelsey,... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1836 - 226 sider
...upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp, quoth he, As much as I your minstrelsy,... | |
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