To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of... A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... - Page 15by Sir John Carr - 1805 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O th' important budget ! usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
| 1841 - 986 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." This man, or bis successor, we well knew ; his name was Dick Tyrell, and he continued " a man of letters"... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive,...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 456 pages
...tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive,...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O the important budget ! usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
| George Merriam - Reader (Elementary) - 1841 - 308 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. 4. Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And,... | |
| William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's chucks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, 20 Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O, th' important... | |
| William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, 20 Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O, th' important... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1842 - 166 pages
...stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet "With tears, that trickled down the writer's checks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, 20 Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O, th' important... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous ou a proof of his wit : you know Brentford's finances...are a little out of repair, which procure» him wr But 0 the important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 922 pages
...writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent 9wains, 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... | |
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