 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
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 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,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1882 - 558 pages
...it to the destined inn, And having dropped the expected bag, pass on. 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, cquallj' affect His horse and him,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1882 - 442 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - English literature - 1882 - 538 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 wet With tears that trickled down the writer's cheek Fast as the periods from his fluent quill ; Or charged with amorous sigh of absent swains, Or... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - Readers - 1853 - 396 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,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1883 - 232 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 - 1883 - 274 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 (the Poet.) - 1883 - 294 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...unconscious of them all. But oh the important budget ! ushered in With such heart-shaking music, who can say What are its tidings ? have our troops awaked... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1883 - 492 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 wet...down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fhiont quill,' Or charged with amorous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally 'affect... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - American poetry - 1884 - 430 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,... | |
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