 No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the street rings ; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake.  The Task: A Poem. In Six Books - Page 103by William Cowper - 1810 - 193 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1854 - 850 pages
...Of long uninterrupted evening, know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert, proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm,...steeds Cough their own knell, while heedless of the souiid, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake : But here the needle plies its busy task, The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...Of long uninterrupted evening know. . No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...its busy task, The pattern grows, the well depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves, and sprigs, And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...Of long uninterrupted evening know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates ; No powder'd pert proficient in the art Of sounding an alarm assaults...needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom ; buds, and leaves,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...uninterrupted evening know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates; No powdered pert, proficient iu the art Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors...needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower. Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its buiom : buds, and leaves,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 798 pages
...know. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates , No powder'd pert proficient in the art 145 Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the...stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless off the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake ; But here the needle plies its busy task,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...No rattling wheels stop short before these gates: * No powderd pert, proficient in the art v "S^ " Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the...needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom; buds, and leaves, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 pages
...ONES. No rattling wheels stop short before these gates,' No powder'd pert proficient in the art 145 Of sounding an alarm, assaults these doors Till the...and quake ; But here the needle plies its busy task, 150 The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1866 - 720 pages
...themselves, and quake: But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows, the well-depicted flow'r, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its bosom; buds and leaves and sprigs And curly tendrils, gracefully disposed, Follow the nimble finger of the fair; A wreath that cannot fade,... | |
 | William Francis Collier - English literature - 1868 - 550 pages
...assaults those doors SPECIMEN OF CCWPEB'S VEESK 385 Till the street rings; no stationary steeds dough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The...needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows ; the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn. Unfolds its bosom; buda, and leaves, and... | |
 | Mrs. Bury Palliser - Lace and lace making - 1869 - 546 pages
...morality : — " Hero Che needle plies its busy task ; The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn, Unfolds its...leaves, and sprigs, And curling tendrils, gracefully dispos d, Follow the nimble fingers of the fair — A wreath that cannot fade, of flowers that blow... | |
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