 Cataracts of declamation thunder here ; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But...  Poems - Strona 100autor: William Cowper - 1802Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - Liczba stron: 356
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for tho toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - Liczba stron: 192
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; 76 While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of ctrange But gay confusion; roses for the cheeks, And lillies for the brows of faded age, 80 Teeth for... | |
 | Songs - 1833 - Liczba stron: 142
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost! While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...strange But gay confusion ; roses for the cheeks, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Heaven, earth,... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - Liczba stron: 362
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders, lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and favourite airs, Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with his hair on end At his... | |
 | 1834 - Liczba stron: 506
...meditations on the advertisements. I might mention more indeed ; but, as the poet says, ," Here oft appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion,...: Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympic dews, Sermons and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 620
...spread the page In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | William Hone - 1835 - Liczba stron: 924
...which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us (here. With merry descanU on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But giy confusion ; roses for the cheeks, AnJ lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - Liczba stron: 206
...spiead the page, In which all comprehension wanders, lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Permons, and city feasts, and fav'rite... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - Liczba stron: 406
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - Liczba stron: 336
...spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears...age ; Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald ; Heaven, earth, and ocean plunder'd of their sweets; Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons,... | |
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