 Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But...  Poems - Side 100av William Cowper - 1802Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 404 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...fav'rite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for his bread. 'Tis pleasant, through... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders, lost ; While fields of pleasantly amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareoua essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, Ethereal journies,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 384 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweet*, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, ./Ethereal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasant'ry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, so Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders, lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...wilderness of strange/ But gay confusion ; roses for the cheek*, And lillies for the brows of faded age, Tfeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1814 - 496 sider
...spread the page, i" which all compreheusion wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amnse ns there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange Bnt gay confnsion; roses for the cheeks, And lihes for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1815 - 338 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, ^Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 248 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, ./Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his own wouders, woud'ring for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 252 sider
...comprehension wanders lost"; \Vhile fields of pleasantry amuse us there 7Ii • THE TASK. BoOK IV. \\ ith merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the hrows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the hald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plundered... | |
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry u muse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion ; rnses for the cheeks, And lilies for the hrows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for... | |
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