 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and .marriages,...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But oh th' important budget! usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings?... | |
 | 1801 - 452 pages
...stocks, Births, deaths and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's check Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But oh ! the important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking mus:c, who can say What are its... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...tears, that trickled down the writer's cheek* Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or eharg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse ami him, unconscious of them all. But oh tli" important budget! usher' d in With such heart-shaking... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...some ; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, TOL< II. I Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears,...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But oh th' important budget ! usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 314 pages
...deaths, and marriages, epistles wet • ' With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks, . . . i -Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, .- ,,...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. .,(<•.-....-.'... ; ... . • .1 When I had retired to my chamber, the constant dashing of the fountain... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Baltic Sea - 1805 - 320 pages
...tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks, Fast as the periods from bis fluent quill, Or chargM with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of diem all. When I had retired to my chamber, the constant dashing of tiie fountain in the court-yard,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...trickled down the writer's 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, unconscious of them all. But oh the important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fa^t as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O th' important bndget! usher' d in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are it's tidings... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent qiii.ll, Or charg'd with am'rotis fighs fools nitty feel; Hut, spite of ull tile criticising elves, Thosi who would make us feel, must feel But oh lh' iuiporiant budget ! usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...thousands, and of joy to some ; To him indiff 'rent, whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the full of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But oh the important budget ! usher'd in "With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
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And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. I 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 indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall... 
