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 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 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... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 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...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | 1829 - 506 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...dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs. jEthereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair an end At his own wonders, wand'ring... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry 'arouse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Neclarcons essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1830 - 334 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...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 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...strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lillies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth and... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 902 sider
...turn, is an affair of modern growth and patronage — all full of promise tbr renovating age ! — « Roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald '." On topics like these, our simple forefathers were almost silent. Yet we have on record some " fond... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 sider
...wanders lost; Cataracts of declamation thunder here; £ 21 While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 sider
...spread the page, In which all comprehenaion^wawiers lost'; While fields of pleasantry amuse us then @ N4 Heavcn,earth,andocean,plundeiedof theirsweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city... | |
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