 And, having dropped the expected bag, pass on. 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 indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of...  The Task: A Poem. In Six Books - Page 99by William Cowper - 1810 - 193 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 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 th' important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...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, epistles...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...to some ; To him indifTrent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Mirths, deaths, and marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheek* Fast as thi; periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am 'rous sighs of absent swains,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...thousands, and of joy to some; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles...writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent qnill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally aifect His }KH... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...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, epistles...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... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...thousands, and of joy to some: To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles...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,... | |
 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...thousands, and of joy to some ; To him, indifferent, whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks ; Births, deaths and marriages, epistles...the periods from his fluent quill ; Or charg'd with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him, unconscious... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...thousands, and of joy to some; To him indifferent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...thousands, and of jay to some; 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 cheeka Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or... | |
 | Great Britain - 1823 - 474 pages
...pavement _ 1. Messengers of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some ; Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks ; Births, deaths, and marriages, epistles...cheeks, Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or cloyed with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymph responsive. and thus commenced my journey on the... | |
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