 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
 | 1818 - Liczba stron: 384
...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 sweeti, Nectareous essences, Olympic dews, Sermons and... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - Liczba stron: 466
...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...Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, ./Ethereal journies, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - Liczba stron: 306
...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...confusion ; roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brow» of faded age. Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the baH, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd... | |
 | William Cowper - 1869 - Liczba stron: 306
...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...toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plundered of thcil sweets, Nectarcous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - Liczba stron: 278
...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...dews, Sermons, and city feasts, and fav'rite airs, --Ktherral journies, submarine exploits, And Katerfelto, with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond'ring... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - Liczba stron: 556
...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...brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets fur the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plundered of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Liczba stron: 310
...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 Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, [sweets, Sermons,... | |
 | 1822 - Liczba stron: 472
...enjoy the humbug of advertisers. Smile, half in mirth, and half in indignation, at the promises of Roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of...Heav'n, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets ; Neqtareous essences, Olympian dews ! Hear some impudent ragamuffin assuring the credulous people,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - Liczba stron: 258
...cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald, Heaven, earth, and ocean, plunder'd of their sweets, Nectareous essences, Olympian dews, Sermons, and eity feasts, and favourite airs, /!'',<lieii;il journeys, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto, with... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - Liczba stron: 450
...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...fav'rite airs, Ethereal journeys, submarine exploits, * - J Katerfelto, with his hair on-end ) own \yonders, wond'ring for his bread. i pleasant, through... | |
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