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" The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er... "
cobbett's weekly register volume xlix - Page 199
by Cobbett's Weekly Register Volume XLIX From January to March,1824 - 1824
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The Rambler's Magazine: Or, Fashionable Emporium of Polite ..., Volume 1

1822 - 614 pages
...opeus with a very humourous view of Sti Peter, sitting outside Heaven, with his rusty key — aad " The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse...little else to do, Excepting; to wind up the sun and mooD, And curb a runaway young star or two.'* Excepting the " recording angel," mentioned by Sterne,...
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The Liberal: Verse and Prose from the South, Volumes 1-2

1822 - 628 pages
...means was full, But since the Gallic era " eighty-eight," The devils had ta'en a longer, stronger pull, And "a pull altogether," as they say At sea— which drew most souls another way. II. The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to...
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The Council of ten [ed. and mainly written by J.S. Boone]., Volume 2

1823 - 500 pages
...and angels ; in open defiance of public decency and public feeling. We are introduced to the angels singing out of tune : And hoarse with having little else to do : To Saint Peter in heaven, talking of Cerberus : And sweating through his apostolic skin. To Satan,...
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The Republican, Volume 9

Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1824 - 876 pages
...was full, But since the Gallic era " eighty-eight," The Devils have ta'en a longer, stronger pull, And " a pull altogether," as they say At sea — which...curb a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a cornet, which too soon Broke out of bounds o'er the ethereal blue, Splitting some planet with its playful...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...means was full, But since the Gallic era " eighty eight," The devils had ta'cn a longer, stronger pull, And " a pull altogether," as they say At sea — which...else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or curl) a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of hounds o'er...
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The works of the rt. hon. lord Byron, Volume 3

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 322 pages
...stronger pull, And " a pull altogether," as the)- say At sea — which drew most souls another way. II. The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse...else to do, Excepting to wind up the sun and moon, Or cuth a runaway young star or two, Or wild colt of a comet, which too soon Broke out of hounds o'er...
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The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical ..., Volumes 3-4

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 916 pages
...was full, But since the Gallic era « eighty-eight, » The devils had ta'en a longer, stronger pull, And « a pull altogether, » as they say At sea — which drew most souls another way. n. The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to do, Excepting to...
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The Life, Writings, Opinions, and Times of the Right Hon. George ..., Volume 2

Poets, English - 1825 - 422 pages
...means was full, But since the gallic era " eighty-eight," The devils had ta'en a longer, stronger pull, And a pull altogether, as they say At sea — which drew most souls another way." After a burlesque description of the employment of the angels and guardian seraphs, the author proceeds...
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The works of lord Byron including his suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1827 - 888 pages
...was full, But since the Gallic era « eighty-right,» The devils had taken a longer, stronger pull, And » a pull altogether,» as they say At sea — which drew most wuls another way. IL The angels all were singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little else to...
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The works of lord Byron including the suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...pull altogether,» as (hey say At sea — which drew most souls another way. И. The angels all veré singing out of tune, And hoarse with having little...sun and moon, Or curb a runaway young star or two, i>r wild colt of a comet, which too soon Üroke out of bounds o'er the ethrreal blue, Splitting some...
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