 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 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...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O iU" important budget I usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say . What are its tidings... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeka 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... | |
 | 1831 - 472 pages
...trickled down the writer'« cheeks Fast as the periods from bis fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, uncouscious of them all." And yet, notwithstanding this, and so many other passages that seem like... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...deaths, and marriages, epistles wet 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 ! usher'd in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1836 - 206 pages
...grief or joy. House* in ashes, and the fall of stocks, 7 'JO Births, deaths, and marriages, epislles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But O, th' important budget ! usher'dm With such heart-shaking musick, who can say What are its tidings?... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...With tears that trickled down the writers cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or cbarg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive,...affect His horse and him, unconscious of them all. But oh, th' -important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 406 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 O the important budget ! usher'd in WTith such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indifFrent 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 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... | |
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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... 
